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UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) guidance for employers offering work experience.
Background on National Occupational Standards (NOS).
A guide on the business benefits of offering work experience.
An overview of changing work experience policies relevant to employers.
Research exploring the future of work and how jobs, and the skills needed in the workplace, will change by 2030.
We are a publicly funded, industry-led organisation that offers guidance on skills and employment issues in the UK.
Information about national occupational standards (NOS) and apprenticeship frameworks and how they are developed.
Employment and skills data from core UKCES products at a local level.
UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) Working Futures labour market projections for the period 2014 to 2024.
Analysis of how employers engage with schools in the UK.
This report, published by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), examines skills and performance challenges in the advanced manufacturing sector
An outline of skills needs and priorities for the information and communication technologies (ICT) sector.
In 1997, 42 per cent of 16-17 year old students were studying and working. By 2014 this figure had declined to 18 per cent. This report describes and explains the long-term fall in young people combining work with study.
Detail on industrial partnerships, the sectors covered and their remit.
A collection of all documents relating to the UK Futures Programme, a series of productivity challenges testing innovative solutions with businesses to identify ‘what works’ in addressing specific workforce development probl…
UKCES Closure 31st March 2017
Describes and explains how collaborative networks of employers work and their effects on the development of skills in the workplace.
This report assesses high level STEM occupations according to labour market need in order to inform the development of work-based skills solutions, including higher apprenticeships.
Sir Charlie Mayfield, Chair of the UK Commission on Employment and Skills (UKCES) and Chair of the John Lewis Partnership will today deliver a landmark report on the UK’s skills system to parliamentarians and leading busines…
A guide based on research and data from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), highlighting a range of jobs which are all Careers of the Future.
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