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Evidence review: What works to improve adult basic skills?

23 Mar 2023
Essential skills

Identifies the most effective approaches to developing adult basic skills and, where possible, their cost-effectiveness. A number of interlinked issues are also considered within the context of delivering basic skills programmes.

How can digital technology help remove multifaceted systemic skills barriers for learners?

20 Mar 2023
Lifelong learning

As part of our VocTech Challenge 2023 consultation programme, L&W and Ufi are running stakeholder workshops to explore adults’ barriers to learning, and how technology can address them. This blog asks: How can VocTech digital tools and pedagogies help narrow inequalities?

How can digital technology help create an agile skills system?

17 Mar 2023
Lifelong learning

As part of our VocTech Challenge 2023 consultation programme, L&W and Ufi are running stakeholder workshops to explore adults’ barriers to learning, and how technology can address them. This blog summarises some of the main highlights from our workshops on how digital technology can support an agile skills system.

How can technology support those not well served by mainstream skills provision?

03 Mar 2023
Lifelong learning

As part of our VocTech Challenge 2023 consultation programme, L&W and Ufi are running stakeholder workshops to explore adults’ barriers to learning, and how technology can address them. This blog summarises some of the main highlights from our first workshop.

Change is the new normal, how can we deliver a skills system for an economy in transition?

21 Feb 2023
Better work Lifelong learning

Louise Rowland, the Deputy CEO of Ufi VocTech Trust, says that we should focus less on skills gaps and more on creating a better skills system.

Missing workers

16 Feb 2023
Employment

This report sheds light on this rise in economic inactivity showing that, while it was initially driven by a rise in people taking early retirement, people have a diverse range of reasons for not working.

VocTech Challenge: Skills for an Economy in Transition

19 Jan 2023
Lifelong learning

The VocTech Challenge aims to accelerate the adoption and deployment of technology to help every adult in the UK get the skills they need to participate and benefit from our transitioning.

Building opportunity: How social housing can support skills, talent and workforce development

01 Dec 2022
Employment

This report, written in collaboration between the Institute for Employment Studies and Learning and Work Institute, seeks to explore the employment and labour market challenges for social housing residents.

Reskilling for Net Zero

18 Nov 2022
Lifelong learning

The UK’s transition to a net-zero economy will bring a major shift in the labour market, requiring the existing workforce to upskill and reskill as they adapt to industrial and occupational changes. But how good is public awareness and understanding?

Adult Participation in Learning Survey 2022

07 Nov 2022
Lifelong learning

For more than 25 years, the Adult Participation in Learning Survey has provided a unique insight into adult learning across the UK. It adopts a deliberately broad definition of learning, reflecting the fact that learning is about so much more than formal courses and qualifications.