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Research and Reports 11 03 2024

ESOL provision in the South East of England: Understanding local capacity

Using funding from the Homes for Ukraine scheme, the South East Strategic Partnership for Migration (SESPM) engaged Learning and Work Institute to deliver an ESOL capacity building programme in the South East of England.

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How can migrant communities be supported to access adult learning through the Adult Education Budget?

As migrant communities arrive and begin to settle in the UK, it is important we support them to access education and training. L&W researcher Jack Bradstreet explains how.
Research and Reports 12 01 2024

Supporting London’s Migrant Communities through the Adult Education Budget

The GLA has introduced flexibilities to make adult education more accessible to migrant communities. This research explores the impact of these changes.

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Celebrating projects that help refugees find work

Between 2001 and 2022 more than one million people arrived in the UK as asylum-seekers or through refugee resettlement programmes. Employment is key to their economic and social integration. To mark Refugee Week, we are highlighting some of the projects that are helping refugees find and progress in work.
Essential skills participation still short of pre-pandemic levels

Last week, the latest Government figures on learner participation and achievement in further education and skills revealed that overall adult participation is lower than pre-pandemic levels, with an 11% drop in apprenticeship starts and a 25% drop in participation in adult FE provision compared to 2018/19.
Response to Census 2021 data on English language proficiency

Our head of essential and life skills, Alex Stevenson, responds to Census 2021 data on English language proficiency.
ESOL teacher training can have a transformative impact on urban communities

ESOL provision is an excellent example of how metro mayors can stamp their mark on adult education in a way that is as much inclusive as it is economically advantageous. Learning and Work Institute identified for Greater London that there was not just a pressing need to respond better to residents’ demand for ESOL learning but also more capacity and expertise in the delivery of ESOL provision.
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 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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