Skills and Employability

The development of people through learning and skills development is crucial both to national economic success and to achieving a more inclusive society. We work with a wide range of clients and partners to support the development and improvement of learning and skills initiatives across the UK.

Sector Skills Development

Our work has helped identify skills issues across a range of key sectors, including creative industries, financial services, energy, care and hospitality, food and drink, tourism and construction.

Leadership and Management Development

We have evaluated a wide range of leadership and management development programmes aimed at developing successful leaders across the public, private and voluntary sectors.

Young People in the Labour Market

We have been at the forefront of research into a wide range of programmes aimed at providing our young people with the work experience and skills required by today’s employers.

Community Based Learning

We develop community learning strategies and action plans and regularly appraise proposals aimed at encouraging marginalised groups to re-engage with learning.

Employability

We support local authorities and economic development agencies to establish employability frameworks and strategies. We also assist community organisations, local regeneration agencies and voluntary organisations to design, develop and evaluate their activities.

Education Sector

Our experience in the education sector ranges from reviews of provision in colleges to funding reviews and evaluations of programmes that encourage collaboration between education and industry. It also includes working with schools on enterprise education and entrepreneurship activities.

 

Examples of our recent work in this area

To find out more please e-mail or call 0141 353 1994