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  • Getting the balance right: What the upcoming immigration White Paper needs to deliver to improve training for people in the UK

    Elizabeth Gerard, L&W's deputy director, considers whether the upcoming White Paper, and changes to migration policy, can help to support the Government's wider objectives.
  • Spotlight on Aberdeen: A place-based approach to lifelong learning

    In partnership with Ufi VocTech Trust, we’ve launched an innovative place-based collaboration to boost adult participation in learning across Aberdeen. This blog gives an update on our progress.
  • Place-Based Partnerships: Spotlight on Hull

    In partnership with Ufi VocTech Trust, we’re identifying key barriers to learning in four areas across the UK and designing targeted solutions to overcome them. This is an update on our place-based collaboration work in Hull.
  • New report highlights a need to look beyond graduates to close digital skills gaps

    Women, people from ethnic minority backgrounds, non-graduates and people from lower socioeconomic groups must be trained for jobs in tech to close skills gap in UK economy, new L&W report, commissioned by Generation and supported by JP Morgan, warns.
  • Research and Reports 18 11 2024

    Unlocking potential

    This research, commissioned by Generation and supported by JPMorganChase, sought to better understand how we can enable people from all backgrounds to develop skills to progress into digital and tech jobs.
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  • Growing the evidence base on how adults learn with technology

    Thomas Heiser, Head of Communications at Ufi VocTech Trust, reflects on the findings of the Adult Participation in Learning Survey 2024 in relation to learning with technology.
  • Projects 30 07 2024

    Employer investment in upskilling and reskilling in a changing economy

    With funding from the Nuffield Foundation, we are working to better understand employer investment in skills and how employees are responding to the need to upskill and retrain in a transitioning economy.
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  • Responding to the King's Speech

    Learning and Work Institute's Director of Policy and Research, Naomi Clayton, responds to the King's speech at the state opening of parliament.
  • Place-based collaboration: an update from Hull

    As part of our partnership with Ufi VocTech Trust on the VocTech Challenge: Skills for an economy in transition, Danny Price discusses findings from an online workshop with stakeholders in the education and voluntary sectors in Hull.

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