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Our mission is to work with and through our partners to secure a greater commitment to invest in the skills of people to drive, enterprise, jobs and growth.
Our strategic objectives in 2012/13 are:
- To provide world-class labour market intelligence which helps businesses and people make the best choices for them
- To work with sectors and business leaders to develop and deliver the best solutions to generate greater employer investment in skills
- To maximise the impact of changed employment and skills policies and employer behaviour to help drive jobs, growth and an internationally competitive skills base
In pursuit of these objectives, our Commissioners are working towards achieving the following priority outcomes across the UK. Click the images to read more about our work on each outcome:
In order to deliver these outcomes, the UK Commission is delivering on and through the following key work areas. Click to read more about our work in each area:
Below, you can also browse our work by themes e.g. Apprenticeships, Information, Advice and Guidance etc. Use the A-Z if you know the name of the project you are looking for.
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Career guidance
19 Oct 2011
People who are unemployed and people in low skilled jobs who are at risk of cycling between work and unemployment are two particularly vulnerable groups that can benefit from good career guidance to support them to get into and on in work. We have carried out two new pieces of work on career guidance which focus on employer involvement in career development and how career related information about the labour market can be used and shared effectively.
Cogent: Life Sciences
21 Dec 2011
This project will provide a skills infrastructure to support a home grown talent pipeline for the UK Life Sciences sector. The investment will market test and stimulate employer investment in UK skills by developing four employer led and employer supported propositions.
Cogent: Nuclear
12 Jan 2012
Three interrelated strands of work to ensure the skills are in place at the right time for the Nuclear industry.
Cogent: Process Industries
4 Jan 2012
Establishing the Gold Standard as the Process Industry standard for skills and its de facto voluntary ‘Licence to Practise’.
Collective measures
ConstructionSkills: The Low Carbon Challenge
5 Jan 2012
With the ‘Green Deal’ about to ‘go live’, the focus of this investment is to build capacity within local supply chains and provider networks as the market starts to respond.
Creative & Cultural Skills: Academies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland
5 Jan 2012
The investment is to set up National Skills Academies in Northern Ireland, Wales and Scotland with their primary focus being the delivery of: Apprenticeships; continuing professional development (CPD) provision; and careers information, advice and guidance (IAG).
Creative & Cultural Skills: Ambassadors for Growth
5 Jan 2012
Creative & Cultural Skills will work to address employers’ lack of knowledge about how to identify and address their own training needs and to provide tailored support for hard-to-reach employers, including SMEs and sole traders, by putting in place a network of ‘Ambassadors for Growth’. These will be sector experts embedded in industry, working with Creative & Cultural Skills and with training providers.
Creative Skillset on Course
6 Oct 2011
Skillset is developing a quality assurance framework to ensure the most industry relevant qualifications are clearly signposted and to provide employers with the tools to identify high quality job applicants.
Customer Journey
12 Jun 2012
This project investigated the individual’s experience of the employment and skills system on their journey into work, and progression in work and training.
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