Sir Mike Rake, Chairman, UK Commission for Employment & Skills“The Doomsday scenario is we could find ourselves by 2020 with six million people unemployable in the UK. I don’t have to tell you what the social and economic implications would be.”
The Learning and Skills Council exists to make England better skilled and more competitive.
It has a single goal: to improve the skills of England’s young people and adults to ensure we have a workforce of world-class standard.
The National Employer Service (NES) was set up by the Learning and Skills Council (LSC) to provide a single point of contact for large, national multi-site employers, who wish to hold a single contract with the Learning and Skills Council.
The Learning and Skills Council’s Train to Gain service provides impartial, independent advice on training to businesses across England. It can help businesses improve their productivity and competitiveness by ensuring that employees have the right
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Train to Gain's guide to the Skills Pledge.
The Government has set out its priorities and funding for the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), outlining the first stage in its longer term strategy to meets the challenges set out by the Leitch review of skills.
Kickstart TV is an innovative interactive digital television channel for learning and skills. The information and learning service has the potential to engage Skills for Life learners and support their learning and progression. The Department for
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The purpose of this fact sheet is to define embedded literacy, language(ESOL) and numeracy, highlight the research which outlines the positive benefits of delivering embedded literacy, language or numeracy learning in vocational programmes and
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This report presents the results of a survey of 201 large national employers, including 60 member companies of the National Employer Service (NES), and follow-up case study research. The research was undertaken by the Institute for Employment
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Following the government reshuffle, there have been a number of ministerial changes within DIUS.
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