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5 Awst 2024
Evaluation of Youth Employment Service North East
L&W carried out an independent evaluation of Youth Employment Service North East on behalf of Youth Futures Foundation.
30 Gorffennaf 2024
Employer investment in upskilling and reskilling in a changing economy
With support from the Nuffield Foundation, L&W is exploring employer investment in skills, and how employees are responding to the need to upskill and retrain in a transitioning economy.
1 Gorffennaf 2024
Aiming high: An 80% employment rate and how to deliver it
Stephen Evans, chief executive at Learning and Work Institute, makes the case for an 80% employment rate and how to achieve it.
28 Mehefin 2024
New Futures: Nation briefings
These four briefings explore lessons learned from our our New Futures pilots in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland, funded by the Covid-19 Support Fund, and offer potential policy options to improve support for career changers.
28 Mehefin 2024
New Futures: Four nations policy recommendations
This report draws together insights from our New Futures pilot programme, funded by the Covid-19 Support Fund, and gives recommendations for governments of the four UK nations on how to support career change.
28 Mehefin 2024
New Futures pilots evaluation
This evaluation of our New Futures pilot programme, funded by the Covid-19 Support Fund, builds the evidence base for what works in supporting career change.
28 Mehefin 2024
New Futures
L&W's flagship project, supporting people who need to reskill and change career as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic.
11 Mehefin 2024
Multiply Randomised Controlled Trials and Quasi-Experimental Design
What works to raise basic numeracy and maths skills? Learning and Work Institute is part of an ambitious evaluation programme to test the effectiveness of approaches to improving adult numeracy.
7 Mehefin 2024
Flex and match: a new Skills Levy for growth and opportunity
This report makes the case for broadening the apprenticeship levy into a “flex and match” Skills Levy that would give employers greater flexibility to spend their levy, but only if they also invest in apprenticeships for young people.
27 Mai 2024
The great skills divide: how learning inequalities risk holding the UK back
The first report in our Ambition Skills programme examines the UK’s qualification profile, projecting it forward to 2035 and comparing against trends for international comparators.
