Skillstories

“If we don’t face up to this challenge we will be overtaken by other countries. I believe we can crack it, but only in partnership with business”

David Lammy MP, Minister for Skills

Welcome to skillstories

Skillstories enables employers and partners to promote their own work on skills, share resources and best practice, learn and work collaboratively online.

It explains the issues in simple, powerful terms, using the words of employers and employees themselves.

Find out how skills are changing the way we do business

The scale of the problem

Nearly 12 million people in the UK workforce lack functional literacy or numeracy. That’s 1 in 5 adults who can’t calculate the change they’re given or decipher vital instructions.

With 70% of the 2020 workforce already out of education, employers must step up to the challenge of supporting their people to gain better skills.

Find out more about these issues

The employers' story

The employers’ story

Good employers see the investment in skills as a means of improving business performance. Good employees realise this investment in them provides a means to develop their career and themselves.

Find out more about the return on investment skills can deliver

The employees’ story

All around us individuals are raising their aspirations, investing more in their own skills development and demanding more of their employers.

Find out more about the impact skills can have on your people

The employees' story
The future of skills

The future of skills

Imagine a Britain where people are given the opportunity and encouragement to develop their skills and abilities and given the support to achieve their true potential. Increased productivity, reduced poverty and inequality.

Find out more about the future of skills

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Featured Employers

Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited logo

Sainsbury’s Supermarkets Limited

J Sainsbury plc is a leading UK food retailer with interests in financial services.

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Serco Group plc

Serco is an international support services business that operates within a public sector ethos. It employs over 48,000 people across the world, including approximately 32,000 in the UK, and reported revenues in 2006 of £2.4 billion. Its work includes running hospitals, leisure centres and prisons. It operates trains, provides support to military bases; manages air traffic services and education services. All of Serco's 600+ UK business units are managed on a devolved basis.

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McDonald’s

McDonald's Restaurant's Ltd operates over 1,200 restaurants and has 67,000 staff, in the UK.

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Resources

VQ Day - celebrating vocational success
Website | Friday May 16th, 2008

Millions of people gain a vocational qualification every year as a stepping stone to further vocational…

Department for Innovations Universities and Skills newletter - May Edition
External Doc. | Wednesday May 14th, 2008

Welcome to the eighth edition of the FE and Skills e-newsletter - a direct news and information link…

Free promotional materials for workplace learning
External Doc. | Friday May 09th, 2008

If you are raising the profile of Skills for Life within your workplace Get On can help. The Get On…

Skills for Life through Workplace Learning: Resource Pack
External Doc. | Friday May 09th, 2008

The Campaign for Learning (CfL) has produced this resource pack in association with Asset Skills Sector…

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