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Multiply Randomised Controlled Trials and Quasi-Experimental Design

What works to raise basic numeracy and maths skills? Learning and Work Institute is part of an ambitious evaluation programme to test the effectiveness of approaches to improving adult numeracy.

Flex and match: a new Skills Levy for growth and opportunity

This report makes the case for broadening the apprenticeship levy into a “flex and match” Skills Levy that would give employers greater flexibility to spend their levy, but only if they also invest in apprenticeships for young people.

The great skills divide

Our joint webinar with City and Guilds and NOCN explored new of the current state of skills in the UK, how we compare internationally, and why we need to set a higher ambition for skills.

The great skills divide: how learning inequalities risk holding the UK back

The first report in our Ambition Skills programme examines the UK’s qualification profile, projecting it forward to 2035 and comparing against trends for international comparators.

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.

Ambition Skills

Our Ambition Skills programme, supported by City & Guilds and NOCN, explores the economic and social case for the UK to have a higher ambition for skills.

Evaluation of the Restart Scheme

Learning and Work Institute led this evaluation of Restart in partnership with Ipsos UK. The research aimed to evaluate the success of the Restart Scheme and inform the design of similar programmes in the future.

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.

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.

Enabling better outcomes: a wider view of apprenticeship success

The St Martin’s Group commissioned Learning and Work Institute to explore the barriers apprenticeship employers face, what they can do to help apprentices complete their programmes, and how to define ‘best outcomes’ of apprenticeships.