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 research from L&W finds the UK has larger gaps in workforce skills between different parts of the country than most other European countries.

One year on from our White Paper for the VocTech Challenge: Skills for an economy in transition, L&W's Danny Price and Ufi VocTech Trust's Thomas Heiser look back on our progress.

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.

As part of Lifelong Learning Week 2024, Dr Katerina Kolyva, CEO at the Education and Training Foundation (ETF), reflects on the benefits of lifelong learning and sets out how greater investment in FE and skills could break down barriers to opportunity.

In this guest blog for Lifelong Learning Week 20204, Hannah Larsen, Policy Officer at British Chambers of Commerce, sets out how employers, government, learning providers and individuals can work together to meet skills needs in a changing economy.

As part of Lifelong Learning Week, Dipa Ganguli OBE, Principal of WM College and Chair of Holex, reflects on why WM College’s mission to widen access to education is just as important as ever as the college celebrates its 170th year.

In his blog for Lifelong Learning Week 2024, David Hughes CBE, Chief Executive at the Association of Colleges, reflects on the chancellor’s first budget and highlights three opportunities to make the case for lifelong learning.

This Lifelong Learning Week, Dame Ann Limb, Chair of the Lifelong Education Institute, spots the clues the Government knows it’s time for skills to make a positive change.