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Unite: Govt must ‘step up to the plate’

Jul 17, 2020By UNITElive

Unite is urging the government and industry’s major employers to step up to the plate and act responsibly to save jobs, invest in skills and employee development programmes through the creation of…Read more…

Jul 17, 2020UNITElive

‘Looming skills crisis’

Jul 12, 2019By UNITElive

Workplace training has dropped sharply according to new analysis by the TUC, which warned that the UK is facing a “looming skills crisis”.   Technological developments and increasing automation…Read more…

Jul 12, 2019UNITElive

Construction skills threat

Apr 24, 2018By UNITElive

Unite has warned that the Construction Industry Training Board’s (CITB) restructuring plans are mired in confusion and the organisation is guilty of failing to properly consult the industry on its…Read more…

Apr 24, 2018UNITElive

Skills ‘black hole’

Feb 19, 2018By UNITElive

News that the Construction Industry Training Board (CITB) has confirmed it will end all directing training by 2020, will create a skills black hole and strip the industry of the capability to…Read more…

Feb 19, 2018UNITElive

Skills crisis

Feb 6, 2018By UNITElive

Unite has renewed its demands for radical action to be taken to tackle the deepening skills crisis facing the construction industry.   Unite made its call following the publication of this…Read more…

Feb 6, 2018UNITElive

UNISON responds to government’s careers strategy

Dec 4, 2017By Dave Prentis blog

The government careers strategy is a missed opportunity to pull together an effective and coherent careers service.

The article UNISON responds to government’s careers strategy first appeared on the…Read more…

Dec 4, 2017Dave Prentis blog

After another lost decade, it’s time to fix the UK’s broken skills system

Jul 31, 2017By Touchstone blog

Workers have suffered from a lost decade of wage growth. While the jobs recovery has been strong, the wage recovery has been agonisingly slow. Wages in 2016 were still 4% lower in real terms than they were a decade before, and they are falling again.   Britain’s dreadful performance on…Read more…

Jul 31, 2017Touchstone blog

Stop Brexit pain

Apr 11, 2017By UNITElive

The consequences of a “hard” Brexit have been laid bare in a new report, which shows that manufacturing, agriculture, energy and construction are amongst the sectors which would be hardest hit….Read more…

Apr 11, 2017UNITElive

#Brexit bad news hidden in #Budget2017

Mar 13, 2017By Touchstone blog

Last week’s Budget speech by the Chancellor had very little to say about Brexit. But that doesn’t mean there isn’t a Brexit angle – you just have to look at what wasn’t there, rather than what was. First, there was very little in the Budget to prepare for the…Read more…

Mar 13, 2017Touchstone blog

Building our technical skills – the Industrial Strategy Green Paper

Jan 26, 2017By Touchstone blog

  This week the Government has made a great deal of its proposals on skills in the Industrial Strategy Green Paper. A BEIS press release came out last weekend entitled Technical education at heart of modern industrial strategy and this echoed the longstanding refrain that the UK has world…Read more…

Jan 26, 2017Touchstone blog

Confidence vote for young

Jan 6, 2017By UNITElive

Defence firm BAE Systems is now offering a record number of high quality, highly paid apprenticeships and last week committed to offering hundreds more this year.     At the moment, the…Read more…

Jan 6, 2017UNITElive

This budget does nothing to make it easier to trust government on education

Mar 16, 2016By ATL Speak Out!

In a weakening global economy, people will rightly ask how the British government is providing opportunity for them. A high quality education system benefits everyone. But just because government…Read more…

Mar 16, 2016ATL Speak Out!

Will area reviews fix the skills gap?

Mar 11, 2016By ATL Speak Out!

Janet Clark is an education policy adviser at ATL The government recently published the latest guidance for the Review of Post-16 Education and Training (known as the area reviews).  At 60 pages…Read more…

Mar 11, 2016ATL Speak Out!

Migration Advisory Committee report calls for public sector pay rise – but there’s a few snags

Jan 28, 2016By Touchstone blog

Last week, the Migration Advisory Committee (MAC), the independent body which advises the government on migration policy, released its report on skilled migration. This report was prompted by the government asking the MAC to recommend how it could reduce net migration in pursuit of its unachievable…Read more…

Jan 28, 2016Touchstone blog

A levy too far?

Jan 15, 2016By UNITElive

Unite is hoping that government plans to create three million apprenticeships in the coming years will lead to a new generation of youngsters being told: You’re hired.   But the Chancellor’s…Read more…

Jan 15, 2016UNITElive

Greatest bar to building is…?

Jan 15, 2016By UNITElive

Housebuilding in the UK will be severely hampered by skills shortages in the construction industry, according to the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors (RICS).   Construction professionals…Read more…

Jan 15, 2016UNITElive

We have collectively chosen to drive the car towards an increasingly unequal society

Sep 14, 2015By ATL Speak Out!

James Meadway, Chief Economist at the New Economics Foundation gives us his thoughts ahead of Tuesday’s TUC fringe ‘Will the current education system deliver skills for the workforce of…Read more…

Sep 14, 2015ATL Speak Out!

Intervene before it’s too late

Aug 26, 2015By UNITElive

Unite called for government action to help Britain’s steel industry as Tata Steel announced it would be mothballing its Llanwern steel mill with the loss of 250 jobs.   Today’s (August 26) job…Read more…

Aug 26, 2015UNITElive

Missing skills emergencies

Jul 13, 2015By UNITElive

The UK is now facing an emergency skills crisis in key sectors including manufacturing, construction, science and engineering, the Confederation of British Industry warned today (July 13).   The…Read more…

Jul 13, 2015UNITElive

Web links for 22nd January 2015

Jan 22, 2015By Touchstone blog

Training is essential in the labour market of today and tomorrow Skills and qualifications are needed more than ever and at every level, writes unionlearn’s Tom Wilson. The number of jobs needing no qualifications fell from 28% in 2006 to 23% in 2012; jobs requiring a degree rose from 20% to…Read more…

Jan 22, 2015Touchstone blog

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