Education : Sector Skills Assessment 2012
The Sector Skills Assessment for the Education sector presents evidence on its skill needs and priorities. This report has been produced by the Learning and Skills Improvement Service, which is a sector-owned body that aims to accelerate the drive for excellence in the learning and skills sector.
Education : Sector Skills Assessment 2012 (PDF, 836 Kb)
Published November 2012
This is the Sector Skills Assessment (SSA) for the Education sector. The aim of the report is to provide authoritative labour market intelligence (LMI) for the sector in order to inform the development of skills policy across the UK.
The definition of the education sector used in this report covers a wide range of activities, including all aspects of education from pre-primary, primary and secondary schools to areas of post-16 education. The latter includes further and higher education, work based learning, and community learning and development. The sector plays a major part in helping to develop the supply of skills and knowledge to the labour market. It is also a significant sector in its own right, contributing six per cent to Gross Domestic Product and employing 11 per cent of the nations workforce.
The sector faces a number of key challenges, including keeping a pace with technological change and developing specific skills needs for teachers, managers and support staff. This is needed to maximise business opportunities, raise revenue, along with building the education sector’s R&D capacity.
SSAs combine top-down data from official sources with bottom-up sectoral intelligence to provide a consistent, comparable and rich understanding of the skills priorities within sectors across the four UK nations. The reports have been produced to a common specification (developed by the UK Commission in consultation with the four UK governments) and follow a consistent structure.
