How does the effectiveness of technical education, apprenticeships and adult training in the UK compare to leading jurisdictions internationally?

Background

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.

Next steps

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.

Source

This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Df E Areas of Research Interest 2024

Related UKRI funded projects


  • Supporting the Industrial Strategy

    1) Developing Skills: Strengths and Weaknesses in the System, and What can be Done. The new Industrial Strategy must consider how the education system can create the general and specific skills needed by businesses toda...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: London School of Economics and Political Science

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project specifically addresses the effectiveness of technical education, apprenticeships, and adult training in the UK compared to leading jurisdictions internationally.

  • Developing talent through apprenticeships

    Investing in apprenticeships is an excellent way for the UK economy to recover from the effects of COVID-19\. Apprentices each generate an average **£34,000 of economic benefit each year** in the UK and Government ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: WORKPLUS APPRENTICESHIPS LTD

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project focuses on developing talent through apprenticeships, which is a partial aspect of the broader question on the effectiveness of technical education, apprenticeships, and adult training.

  • HIVE-PED: Higher Vocational Education and Pedagogy in England

    The HIVE-PED Research Seminar Series: Higher Vocational Education and Pedagogy in England The proposed HIVE-PED research seminars series will map out the research territory, report research findings, facilitate debate,...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Greenwich

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project specifically addresses higher vocational education and pedagogy in England, which is a partial aspect of the broader question on the effectiveness of technical education, apprenticeships, and adult training.

  • Skills2Capabilities

    The Skills2Capability project is about understanding how skill systems across Europe can reduce the level of skills mismatch in their labour markets. It is recognised that future labour markets will be more mobile with m...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

    Lead research organisation: UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK

  • Ethos SkillsPlanner

    Matching the skills output of educational establishments with the needs of industry, particularly in a rapidly changing economy, is problematic. The inability to integrate the various bespoke datasets has meant the holis...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: ETHOS VO LIMITED

  • SD - APT: Scalable Delivery of Applied PEMD Training

    SD-APT brings together diverse organisations with established experience in innovation within the delivery of skills and training and expertise in PEMD to create delivery programs designed to meet the PEMD skills gap cha...

    Funded by: ISCF

    Lead research organisation: COVENTRY UNIVERSITY

  • Unpacking returns to vocational education in England: the role of skills, labour market sorting and mobility

    In the UK, widespread participation in postsecondary education goes hand in hand with a relatively high number of students leaving education prematurely, ill-equipped for the labour market. This growing polarization has ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: London School of Economics and Political Science

  • Skills at work: an analysis of the interaction between training and occupations in the labour market

    My research explores policy-relevant topics in labour economics, with a methodological emphasis on applied econometrics. More specifically, my main research agenda focuses on studying the specificity of human capital wit...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: Institute for Fiscal Studies

  • Class of 2020 - Using novel peer accreditation processes of professional skills to upskill graduates

    University and college graduates are severely negatively impacted by Covid-19 and face a difficult job market ahead in a challenging economic environment. To prevent a 'lost generation', the classof2020 project enables a...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Lead research organisation: POTENTIALLY LIMITED

  • University Technical Colleges - driving growth across the whole country and cultivating world-leading sectors?

    Evaluating school effectiveness is challenging, because parents can choose where to send their children to school. This causes a problem for researchers, because those choices are unlikely to be random. This means it is ...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Lead research organisation: University of Warwick

Similar ARIs from other organisations