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Skills for opportunity and growth: Future skills needs
• How can we create a culture of lifelong learning? What would an optimally designed lifelong learning entitlement look like to enable adults to drop in and out of ongoing training without compromising their financial stability? What incentives might change the national culture (for employers and employees) about lifelong learning?
Department for Education, 2025
incentives
workforce development
training
skills development
adult education
lifelong learning
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Future skills needs
"• How can we help the UK HE sector to be internationally competitive and financially secure while meeting key domestic needs?"
Department for Education, 2025
higher education
international competitiveness
skills system
skills pipeline
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Future skills needs
• How can we best ensure appropriate availability of educational opportunities to meet future needs? How do solutions vary over the short, medium, and long term?
Department for Education, 2025
further education
higher education
skills gaps
local economies
skills pipeline
skills system
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Future skills needs
To what extent will existing and planned educational provision meet identified future skills gaps in key areas of national importance?
Department for Education, 2025
further education
higher education
skills development
skills gaps
skills pipeline
skills shortages
skills mismatches
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Collaborations
What are the barriers and challenges within the labour market that prevent adults from disadvantaged backgrounds having good outcomes, even if they have the same attainment outcomes (e.g. networks, local labour market factors, social capital etc)? How does this vary for different groups (e.g. adult offenders)? What are the most cost-effective ways to address them?
Department for Education, 2025
disadvantaged backgrounds
labour market
social capital
local economies
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Collaborations
How do we best create collaborations with industry to increase training opportunities, to ensure learners are as prepared as possible for work, and to reduce barriers to those from disadvantaged backgrounds, particularly in areas of high need and priority (e.g. Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths - STEM)?
Department for Education, 2025
disadvantaged backgrounds
industry collaboration
STEM
training
workforce
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Moving to employment
• How can the Skills and Growth Levy be used to widen opportunity?
Department for Education, 2025
employment
skills development
social inclusion
investment decisions
employers
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Moving to employment
• What incentives to both employer and potential apprentice will facilitate more individuals entering the workforce via apprenticeships?
Department for Education, 2025
apprenticeships
employment
incentives
workforce development
decision-making
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Moving to employment
• What works in driving successful HE participation and positive destinations post HE, for disadvantaged groups (including care experienced students), and other groups such as those with SEND?
Department for Education, 2025
disadvantaged groups
employment opportunities
higher education
special educational needs
inclusion
accessibility
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Moving to employment
• How do local availability of courses and transport infrastructure impact on disadvantaged groups’ opportunities and choices, and what works to improve them?
Department for Education, 2025
disadvantaged groups
transportation
decision-making
career paths
travel behaviour
infrastructure
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Moving to employment
• What works best in the skills system to support underrepresented groups into higher-paid occupations, sectors, and levels of seniority?
Department for Education, 2025
employment
skills development
underrepresented groups
disadvantaged groups
social capital
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Moving to employment
How can the skills system best support disadvantaged students into sustainable employment?
Department for Education, 2025
disadvantaged groups
education
employment
skills development
training
workforce participation
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Pathways
What works to get disadvantaged students onto the pathways that are proven to lead to upwards mobility and to stay on those pathways (including helping those who are not in education, employment, or training - NEET) and raising ambition where needed? At what age are interventions most effective?
Department for Education, 2025
disadvantaged students
social mobility
aspirations
social groups
employment
unemployment
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Decisions
• What is the impact of funding and understanding of student finance on decisions to study, course type and mode of study (both for UK and foreign students? How are the debt, cost and value of student finance understood and experienced, by different social groups?
Department for Education, 2025
decision making
higher education
financial incentives
careers information
debt
student tuition fees
financial support
financial capability
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Decisions
• What are the drivers of UK and foreign students’ decisions about pathways into and out of Higher Education (HE)? How do perceptions of the UK student experience affect decisions to study in the UK?
Department for Education, 2025
higher education
foreign students
decision-making
migration
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Decisions
• How can we maximise the benefits of work experience for those students who lack social capital?
Department for Education, 2025
social capital
work experience
internship
volunteers
work placements
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Decisions
How can careers advice have maximum impact in signposting people from disadvantaged backgrounds into further and higher education (including apprenticeships and T levels) and more rewarding careers? What is the optimum mode of delivery of information, advice, and guidance for disadvantaged groups and at what age should this start?
Department for Education, 2025
careers advice
disadvantaged backgrounds
decision-making
social media
careers information
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Decisions
• How are different careers portrayed to children? What careers advice is available, who engages with it, and what difference does the best possible careers advice make to the career paths they choose? How does this vary for different groups (such as by age and background)?
Department for Education, 2025
career paths
careers advice
social media
media
decision-making
literature
inclusion
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Skills for opportunity and growth: Decisions
How do we design and implement systems that promote understanding, and support the best decisions, by learners (of all ages) and parents (where appropriate) regarding the options and pathways available?
Department for Education, 2025
decision making
parental involvement
careers
careers information
careers advice
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Every child achieving and thriving: Enrichment activities and childcare for school- aged children
• What are the social, emotional, physical, and longer-term career benefits of enrichment activities?
Department for Education, 2025
environmental awareness
green jobs
classroom management
wellbeing
school attendance
educational outcomes
nature
parks
outdoor space
built environment
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