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7 Mehefin 2024
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.
27 Mai 2024
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.
23 Mai 2024
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.
14 Mai 2024
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.
9 Mai 2024
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.
11 Mawrth 2024
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.
15 Chwefror 2024
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.
17 Ionawr 2024
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.
12 Ionawr 2024
Supporting London’s Migrant Communities through the Adult Education Budget
The GLA has introduced flexibilities to make adult education more accessible to migrant communities. This research explores the impact of these changes.
30 Rhagfyr 2023
Modelling essential skills needs across England
L&W has conducted an England-wide modelling exercise of adults aged 16 to 64, identifying disparities in essential skills levels within local areas which far exceed those between local and combined authorities across the country.
