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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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Impact of Higher Education on part-time students
12 Jun 2012
This project compares the labour market experiences of higher education graduates who studied on a full-time and part-time basis.
Improve: Benchmark
5 Jan 2012
Improve will develop a sector specific tool which will enable food and drink companies to benchmark their performance against their counterparts on a number of business measures and identify key areas for improvement. The tool will be based on customisation and extension of the DTI Benchmarking Index.
Improve: Blueprint for Excellence
5 Jan 2012
This Improve project will produce a ‘Blueprint’ or ‘Excellence Standard’, by engaging with the top performing companies in the sector to capture the skills and knowledge that represent individual best practice in a wide range of job roles.
Improve: Tasty Graduates
5 Jan 2012
Improve’s ‘Tasty Graduates’ will create a ‘Centre of Excellence in Food Production Engineering’ within the UK and also a new Undergraduate level sandwich course in food engineering, through working with key industry employers and the Food & Drink Federation as part of their Graduate Ambition activity. It will establish this area as both a discipline and a profession in its own right.
Improve: Tasty Jobs
5 Jan 2012
The Improve project ‘Tasty Jobs’ represents work with employers, relevant government organisations and the agency labour providers who are critical to providing skilled labour to the sector to identify and address the policy and procedural barriers which prevent an unemployed person securing a long-term employment opportunity with an employer in their local community.
Information, advice and guidance
12 Jun 2012
This work explored how new technologies including web can be used to provide robust, accessible information, advice and guidance.
Information, advice, guidance
See Career guidance
Institute of the Motor Industry: Attracting and retaining talent in the automotive sector
11 Jan 2012
IMI aim to attract and retain talent in the automotive sector by developing a programme infrastructure and resources to link careers teachers and practitioners with industry employers and trainers in order to give them first hand insight into what a career in the industry entails and by providing a cohesive, sector specific CIAG portal.
Institute of the Motor Industry: Develop an infrastructure to improve the poor levels of management and leadership capability in the sector
11 Jan 2012
IMI will develop an infrastructure to improve the poor levels of management and leadership capability in the sector. The investment will also help develop and implement a sector wide cohesive Management and Leadership programme for the automotive sector which will remove duplication and enable more employers to access a flexible, coherent infrastructure which brings a step change in the way the sector develops and supports its managers.
Institute of the Motor Industry: Development of a 14-16 automotive vocational programme to reduce the number of young people becoming ‘Not in Education, Employment or Training’ (NEET)
11 Jan 2012
This investment will lead to the development of a 14-16 automotive vocational programme to reduce the number of young people becoming Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET).
Institute of the Motor Industry: Expand and embed the Automotive sector’s Professional Register as the voluntary Licence to Practise
11 Jan 2012
With the support of the Employer Investment Fund, IMI will expand and embed the automotive sector’s Professional Register as the voluntary Licence to Practise.
Institute of the Motor Industry: Increasing current competence levels developing a new approach to upskilling the automotive technician population
11 Jan 2012
This IMI project will increase current competence levels through the development of an Assessed Outcome Modular (AOM) approach to re-accreditation for all routes within the Automotive Technician Accreditation (ATA) scheme.
Institute of the Motor Industry: Making and winning the economic argument for employer investment in skills using RoI studies
11 Jan 2012
This IMI project will create a portfolio of specific Return on Investment (RoI) studies to make and win the argument for sustained investment in skills by employers in the Automotive Retail sector.
Intelligence
12 Jun 2012
Running for four years, Intelligence was a monthly e-briefing which reported on key developments in the fields of employment and skills
Intermediate skills
See Stimulating Demand for Intermediate Skills amongst Employers
International approaches to high performance working
12 Jun 2012
This project considers policy approaches to high performance working (HPW) in seven countries. It covers how HPW is interpreted in different national contexts and the different methods used to encourage the take-up of HPW, and explores policy learning.
Investment
Yesterday
One of the UK Commission’s key activities is to stimulate employer investment in skills. To do this two funds have been launched: the Growth and Innovation Fund and the Employer Investment Fund. These funds will support employer-led initiatives to increase the contribution skills make to enterprise, jobs and growth. So far we have invested £75m in 89 projects across 20 different employer-led organisations. Our £75m has been matched by £19m of direct employer investment and £38m of employer in-kind support. Summaries of all projects can be seen on the portfolio page.
Investors in People
12 Jun 2012
In April 2010, responsibility for the Investors in People Standard was passed from government to the UK Commission placing it at the heart of our agenda to strengthen management, leadership and skills utilisation across the UK. These arrangements meant that the Commission took over guardianship of the Investors in People Standard and framework, including responsibility for ensuring continued high quality through the licensing of regional and national delivery centres across the UK.
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