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One Minute Monday: skills training - who gets it?
Welcome to our One Minute Monday weekly blog where we outline a key finding from our research in under one minute! The majority (63%) of UK workers received training in 2015. The number of employers...
View ArticleUKCES explains: types of training
As part of our series of explainer blogs, we’re putting a spotlight on some of the specific terms and phrases from our UK Employer Skills Survey 2015. It’s a huge study, speaking to over 91,000...
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One Minute Monday: the personal and people skills missing from UK employees
Got a spare minute? Interested in employment and skills? Our One Minute Mondays are the blog posts for you! Many of the skills missing from UK employees are people and personal skills. When we asked...
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One Minute Monday: the impact of skills shortages on UK businesses
Welcome to our weekly One Minute Monday blog, where we outline a statistic or fact from our research in under 60 seconds! Our Employer Skills Survey 2015 found that the number of job vacancies that are...
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One Minute Monday: predicting the shape of the UK labour market
In these quick weekly posts we offer you bite-sized findings from our world-leading labour market research. Our labour market forecasts show that while demand for high skilled jobs are due to increase...
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One Minute Monday - will a robot take your job?
Welcome to One Minute Monday – our look at a fact, statistic, or topic from the employment and skills world – gone in sixty seconds. There is tremendous speculation about the effects that artificial...
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One Minute Monday: locating the UK's under-used skills
Looking for a thought-provoking stat about employment and skills, but only got a minute? You've come to the right place! Skill under-utilisation occurs when employees have skills above and beyond those...
View ArticleThe importance of a local perspective…Employer Skills Survey 2015
What’s the biggest challenge facing employers today? Is it survival? Growth? Technology? Recruiting skilled staff? The answer, of course, depends on who you ask. To state the obvious, the...
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Lessons from the Telharmonium
Much of our working life today is thanks to the Victorians: the way we light our offices (the electric light bulb was patented in 1879), how we get to work (the pedal-driven bicycle was invented in...
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The truth about time-travel
On June 28th 2009, Professor Stephen Hawking threw a party for time-travellers. Despite telling plenty of people about the date and time, sending out invitations and patiently waiting for guests to...
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