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.
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.
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 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.
