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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.
Tech employment academies support successful career change as two more cohorts start in Belfast

Michael Kane from Belfast City Council updates us on the impact of the Belfast New Futures pilot and introduces the next two cohorts of the tech academies.
Projects 19 01 2023

VocTech Challenge 2023: Skills for an economy in transition

The VocTech Challenge 2023 aims to accelerate the adoption and deployment of technology to help every adult in the UK get the skills they need to participate & benefit from our transitioning.

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New Futures in Belfast: Technology Employment Academy

Belfast City Council was selected by Learning and Work Institute to run a New Futures pilot in Northern Ireland, to test what support people need to successfully switch their career into tech.
Research and Reports 03 03 2022

The Skills Imperative 2035: What does the literature tell us about essential skills most needed for work?

The first report in a series as part of the Skills Imperative 2035 project funded by Nuffield Foundation and led by NFER looks at what the literature says about the future of essential workplace skills.

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Research and Reports 13 12 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

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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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