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  • Projects 24 06 2022

    Mapping Local Essential Skills Needs

    Essential skills like literacy and numeracy are increasingly crucial for life and work, for business success, and for economic growth. We're partnering with local authorities to help them map and understand local skills needs.
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  • New analysis shows huge disparity in adult literacy and numeracy which must be tackled to boost levelling up

    Our new mapping shows drastic variation in the proportion of adults with low levels of literacy and numeracy across England.
  • Research and Reports 27 05 2022

    Local learning: Place-based insight on what works to drive up essential skills participation

    L&W has investigated innovative, place-based interventions in three areas where participation in essential skills learning declined the most to look at what works at a local level to engage learners in essential skills learning.
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  • Research and Reports 11 03 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.
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  • Research and Reports 15 10 2021

    Getting the basics right: The case for action on adult basic skills

    Literacy, numeracy and digital skills are vital for life and work. This report makes the case for action on adult basic skills.
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  • Projects 15 10 2021

    Skills for Life Alliance

    Convened by Learning and Work Institute and Holex, the Skills for Life Alliance consists of leading researchers, delivery organisations and sector specialists. It is exploring what affects participation in basic skills learning.
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  • Research and Reports 13 07 2021

    Migration and English Language Learning after Brexit

    This report looks at the future for English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) learning in the content of new immigration policies, the recovery from coronavirus, and Adult Education Budget devolution.
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  • Lockdown Learning: English Language Conversation Clubs Online

    When we developed the Volunteers, English Language Learners, Conversation Clubs resources in early 2020, we couldn’t have anticipated that a global pandemic was about to cause such severe disruption.
  • The Write Offs: A window into adult literacy problems

    Channel 4's The Write Offs highlights the urgent need for a new national mission on adult literacy, says Alex Stevenson.

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