Lifelong learning
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.
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.
30 June 2022
Best practice in delivering pre-apprenticeships
Learning and Work Institute worked in partnership with J. P. Morgan to explore best practice in the design and delivery of pre-apprenticeship programmes across Europe.
17 June 2022
The impact of higher inflation on skills budgets in England
Inflation has risen significantly since the 2021 spending review. This briefing explores what this means for learning and skills funding, and what should happen next.
11 March 2022
Social prescribing and adult education in London
Our report in partnership with Greater London Authority explores how social prescribing to adult education works, the challenges faced and ways to improve.
13 December 2021
Working together: How learning and skills support can create an inclusive labour market in Northern Ireland
This report for Open College Network Northern Ireland looks at the twin challenges of limiting rises in long-term unemployment and cutting economic inactivity, which are at the heart of ensuring an inclusive labour market recovery in Northern Ireland.
