Lifelong learning
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.
28 July 2023
Skills accelerator pilot evaluation
L&W, in partnership with IFF Research, evaluated the Skills Accelerator pilot on behalf of the Department of Education, incorporating the local skills improvement plan (LSIP) trailblazers and strategic development fund (SDF).
12 May 2023
Time to learn
People invest £7.3 billion a year and £55 billion worth of time in learning. This is more than the Government and employers invest in learning and skills, but there are stark inequalities between groups. This report provides the most detailed snapshot seen of which groups of adults are investing in learning, and how much, and lays bare stark inequalities in learning.
9 May 2023
National Skills Fund: Free Courses for Jobs
This research, undertaken by Learning and Work Institute on behalf of the Department for Education, sought to understand how adults can be effectively engaged in the National Skills Fund Free Courses for Jobs offer.
