The Cost-of-Living Crisis and Employer Demand for Level 2-7 Apprenticeships
The past twelve months have seen an encouraging recovery for apprenticeships after the terrible impact that the pandemic’s lockdowns had on new starts on the…
cost of living crisis
The United Kingdom cost of living crisis is an ongoing event starting in 2021, in which prices for many essential goods in the United Kingdom began increasing faster than household incomes, resulting in a fall in real incomes.
Every month, we release the ONS Labour Market Statistics. These stats show how the crisis develops and what real incomes currently are. Find all previous articles right here!
On top of this, in October 2022, we have a series from Campaign for Learning about ‘Learning in the Cold’. Read more about this here.
The cost of living crisis is a major issue in the UK, with the great reshuffle continuing (Kwasi Kwarteng being sacked, swiftly followed by Liz Truss resigning as Prime Minister), we are publishing more and more articles and streams around this topic. For example, on Season 3, Episode 3 of #FutureOfApprenticeships, we talk about the impact of the cost of living crisis on apprenticeships!
Economic Inactivity by the Over 50s, the Cost-of-Living Crisis and Adult Training
Statisticians count employment statuses in a short sequence. If you do one hour or more of paid work, you are ‘in employment’. If you’re not…
Workers in North West most likely to be researching pay rises online
A recent study by HR and payroll software provider Ciphr found that more people living in the Midlands and North of England search online for…
The Cost-of-Living Crisis, Universal Credit, Jobs and Skills Training
Nearly all of the measures in the Growth Plan published on Friday 23rd September have now been reversed by Jeremy Hunt, the new Chancellor. A…
The Cost-of-Living Crisis: Access to HE and Foundation Year Programmes
The last few years have seen some interesting shifts in what we could call “non-traditional” routes to starting a full-time undergraduate degree, especially in terms…
The Cost-of-Living Crisis and Part-Time Higher Education in England
The UK Government has made raising the UK’s growth rate the Government’s central economic mission and has emphasised the importance of boosting productivity to achieving…
The Cost-of-Living Crisis and Full-Time and Postgraduate Higher Education
University tuition fees have been debated endlessly across the UK since at least the Dearing Report over a quarter of a century ago. There is…
The Cost-of-Living Crisis and 16-24 Year-Olds ‘Not in Full-Time Education’
The pandemic posed a huge challenge for all of us. While there might have been a general enthusiasm about the return to ‘normality’, the cost-of-living…
The Cost-of-Living Crisis and 16-18 Year-Olds in Jobs with Apprenticeships
According to the latest data , 16-18 year-olds form 23.7% of the apprentice population. As Figure 1 illustrates, over time, their proportion had declined substantially…
The Cost-of-Living and the Energy Crisis for Households
Households across the UK are facing huge cost-of-living pressures, with inflation close to a 40-year high and real wages falling fast. While significant support from…