Lifelong learning
28 June 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 June 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.
27 May 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.
23 May 2024
Place-based collaboration: an update from Newport
As part of our partnership with Ufi VocTech Trust on the VocTech Challenge: Skills for an economy in transition, Danny Price discusses findings from an in-person workshop with key stakeholders in Newport.
14 May 2024
Ambition Skills
Our Ambition Skills programme, supported by City & Guilds and NOCN, explores the economic and social case for the UK to have a higher ambition for skills.
15 February 2024
Place-based collaboration: an update from Belfast
As part of our partnership with Ufi VocTech Trust on the VocTech Challenge: Skills for an economy in transition, Zarin Mahmud discusses findings from an in-person workshop with key stakeholders in Belfast.
28 November 2023
Driving Change in Higher Education
Learning and Work Institute is working in partnership with The Carers Federation with funding from The National Lottery Community Fund to improve the support that young adult carers receive in higher education.
23 November 2023
“No young adult carer should miss out on learning because they care for their families. We are writing to call on you to exempt young adult carers from the 21 hour rule.”
To mark Carers Rights Day 2023, L&W and Carers Trust published an open letter calling on the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to exempt young adult carers from the 21 hour rule in the benefits system.
6 November 2023
Adult Participation in Learning Survey 2023
For more than 25 years, the Adult Participation in Learning Survey has provided a unique insight into adult learning across the UK. It adopts a deliberately broad definition of learning. Discover our findings from 2023.
13 October 2023
All change: Understanding and supporting retraining and career change
Advances in technology alongside longer working lives will see more people needing to change jobs and sectors. In this report, L&W calls for an extended Lifelong Learning Entitlement to facilitate this and put an end to the career change penalty.