Lifelong learning
9 May 2023
Cost barriers to learning at Level 3
This research, carried out on behalf of the Department for Education, provides evidence on cost barriers and potential solutions to increasing adult participation in learning to Level 3.
3 April 2023
How impact investors can use technology to help adults benefit from employment
As part of our VocTech Challenge 2023 consultation programme, Ufi VocTech Trust, Tyton Partners and L&W recently convened a workshop with key impact investors to explore how to use technology to help every adult in the UK get the skills they need to participate in and benefit from employment. This blog post offers a brief summary of what was covered.
20 March 2023
How can digital technology help remove multifaceted systemic skills barriers for learners?
As part of our VocTech Challenge 2023 consultation programme, L&W and Ufi are running stakeholder workshops to explore adults’ barriers to learning, and how technology can address them. This blog asks: How can VocTech digital tools and pedagogies help narrow inequalities?
17 March 2023
How can digital technology help create an agile skills system?
As part of our VocTech Challenge 2023 consultation programme, L&W and Ufi are running stakeholder workshops to explore adults’ barriers to learning, and how technology can address them. This blog summarises some of the main highlights from our workshops on how digital technology can support an agile skills system.
3 March 2023
How can technology support those not well served by mainstream skills provision?
As part of our VocTech Challenge 2023 consultation programme, L&W and Ufi are running stakeholder workshops to explore adults’ barriers to learning, and how technology can address them. This blog summarises some of the main highlights from our first workshop.
21 February 2023
Change is the new normal, how can we deliver a skills system for an economy in transition?
Louise Rowland, the Deputy CEO of Ufi VocTech Trust, says that we should focus less on skills gaps and more on creating a better skills system.
19 January 2023
VocTech Challenge: Skills for an Economy in Transition
The VocTech Challenge aims to accelerate the adoption and deployment of technology to help every adult in the UK get the skills they need to participate and benefit from our transitioning.
18 November 2022
Reskilling for Net Zero
The UK’s transition to a net-zero economy will bring a major shift in the labour market, requiring the existing workforce to upskill and reskill as they adapt to industrial and occupational changes. But how good is public awareness and understanding?
7 November 2022
Adult Participation in Learning Survey 2022
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, reflecting the fact that learning is about so much more than formal courses and qualifications.
31 October 2022
Driving Change in Further Education: Project and Evaluation Report
Funded by The National Lottery Community Fund and partnering with Carers Federation, L&W worked with FE colleges across the UK to review and improve the support they offer to young adult carers, using the Carers Federation Quality Standard in Carer Support framework.
