Learning & skills policy
Learning & skills policy
The TUC has long campaigned to raise the skills of Britain's work force. It's good for the country's competitiveness and helps people find more fulfilling and better paid jobs. Here are links to our most recent policy and research work on skills, education and lifelong learning.
23 January 2012
ESRC PhD STUDENTSHIP 2012: ‘The Labour Market in Recession'
Applications are being sought for a prestigious (1+3 or +3) full time PhD Studentship, to be based in the Cardiff School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, to begin in October 2012.
Wales
20 October 2011
TUC Response to DfE Care to Learn Consultation October 2011
The Care to Learn grant was introduced in 2004 with the aim of narrowing education inequalities and encouraging more young mothers into education, employment and training. In 2008/09, 8,000 young parents claimed Care to Learn to enable them to contin...
18 October 2011
Captain Corelli's guitar: Louis de Bernieres meets busking Brighton road sweeper
Author visits GMB/unionlearn centre
Southern and Eastern
29 September 2011
Research Network Bulletin - No 4
The added value of union learning, Learning agreements, Union learning representatives, Collective learning funds, Union learners and more.
27 September 2011
Learning and Skills Policy Newsletter
New Challenges, New Chances, The National Careers Service, Apprenticeships, NEETs, Wolf Report and more
26 September 2011
Tom Wilson, unionlearn's director in response to Association of Colleges' research
Tom Wilson, unionlearn director, in response to Association of Colleges' research showing that only 7% of pupils are able to name Apprenticeships as a post-GCSE qualification said:
“Clearly more needs to be done to ensure that young people are aware of the full range of options available to them at 16. Schools and those advising young people need to ensure that they are fully aware of vocational opportunities and other alternatives to A Levels.
21 September 2011
Niace: Informal Adult Community Learning Survey
As part of the Government's review of informal adult community learning (IACL), NIACE is gathering the views of individuals rather than organisations.
17 August 2011
Unionlearn welcomes debate on investment in training
In response to the CBI....
17 August 2011
FE loans must be on a par with loans for HE students
In response to BIS consultation New Challenges, New Chances, in FE.....
7 July 2011
Sustaining ULF Activity: Findings from the Union Project Officer (UPO) follow-on survey
This report presents findings from a follow-on survey of Union Learning Fund (ULF) Union Project Officers (UPOS) who were originally surveyed as part of the national ULF/ unionlearn evaluation conducted during 2009/10. It takes a more in depth look at the wider issues of the sustainability of union learning.
PDF version available for download
