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  • Northern Ireland’s forthcoming skills strategy must be ambitious in its plans to improve learning and skills outcomes

    Northern Ireland’s forthcoming skills strategy will set out plans to improve learning and skills outcomes. This blog looks at the key points of our research which outlines why the strategy must be ambitious and what it should prioritise to improve learning and skills outcomes.
  • Higher skills ambition needed for Northern Ireland

    Northern Ireland risks slipping further behind other countries in the skills of its workforce, a new report by a leading research institute finds.
  • Research and Reports 27 01 2021

    A higher skills ambition for Northern Ireland: Skills for growth and social inclusion

    This report makes the case for a higher ambition to address these skill deficits and improve Northern Ireland’s prospects into 2030.
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  • Millions of adults took part in ‘lockdown learning’ but stark inequalities raise concerns about workers being left behind in post-covid economy

    A leading think tank has called for urgent action to close inequalities in adult skills, as a new national survey highlights large inequalities in access to learning and retraining.
  • Research and Reports 02 11 2020

    Learning through lockdown

    The 2020 Adult Participation in Learning Survey explores people’s experiences of learning since the outbreak of the Coronavirus pandemic and the national lockdown introduced on 23 March 2020.
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  • Research and Reports 17 08 2020

    The future of the minimum wage - The employer perspective

    This is the second report in the series, looking into how employers reacted to the introduction of and increases to the minimum wage in the past, how they feel they will be able to handle planned future increases, and what support they might need.
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  • Most employers support increase in minimum wage but want government support to adapt

    The report – based on a survey of over 1,000 businesses conducted at the outset of the coronavirus crisis – shows that over half (54%) support the UK government’s policy of increasing the national living wage.
  • Projects 26 05 2020

    Longitudinal education outcomes (LEO) pilot

    Learning and Work Institute has been selected as one of eight organisations to participate in the Department for Education’s longitudinal education outcomes (LEO) pilot programme.
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  • Online adult learning: new opportunities to understand what works

    An unprecedented and wide-ranging economic downturn is on the horizon due to Covid-19. How can we engage adults in online learning and why is it important?

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