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  • 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.
  • 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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  • One year on from our VocTech Challenge White Paper

    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.
  • Place-based collaboration: an update from Newport

    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 in-person workshop with key stakeholders in Newport.
  • Place-based collaboration: an update from Aberdeen

    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 Aberdeen.
  • 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.
  • From dreams to reality – reskilling into a career in tech

    In this blog, pne of our New Futures Wales pilot participants tells her story of how she switched career into tech after reskilling and learning to code. Led by Chwarae Teg before it closed its doors in October 2023, New Futures Wales supported over 200 women to start tech training courses, setting many on a path to career change.
  • Using technology to support learning and work: Insights from the Adult Participation in Learning Survey

    Sophie Hall shares insights from the Adult Participation in Learning Survey 2023 on how adults are using technology for learning and how confident they feel to do this.

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