Our goal is to increase productivity and growth by bringing education and business closer together and improving the quality of our skills programme, so that we meet current and future business skills needs.
If you would like to discuss previous, ongoing or potential research into any of the areas in this document, please contact research.engagement@education.gov.uk.
This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:
Skill shortages are a major issue in the UK and arise because there are not enough people with particular skills to meet demand. The Open University estimates that skill shortages cost the UK £2bn a year in higher ...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: KNOWLEDGE OFFICER LTD
The project focuses on benchmarking skills, identifying skill shortages, and providing a personalized learning path to address skills needs, aligning with the question's objectives.
According to the importance of soft skills in the European Skills Agenda (transversal skills in the document) the EU has tackled this gap by working with competency and skills definition models such as EntreComp, LifeCom...
Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee
Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK
The project addresses the importance of soft skills and proposes a methodology for training and evaluating soft skills, which partially aligns with the question's focus on skills mismatches and future skills needs.
Forget the productivity ‘puzzle’… Britain faces a productivity crisis. National and firm-level productivity in the UK has worried policy makers and business leaders for decades. But now flat growth, a debt overhang from ...
Funded by: Innovate UK
Lead research organisation: EXCEL WITH BUSINESS LIMITED
The project proposes a data-driven platform to diagnose skills gaps and make training recommendations, partially addressing the question's focus on skills mismatches and the impact of AI on future skills needs.