Driving-up Employer Investment in Training

New report considers how to increase employer investment in training in England as announcement expected in Spring Budget

The report, ‘Driving-up employer investment in training – pressing the right buttons’, by Campaign for Learning, considers these issues through analysis and recommendations from 21 leading organisations and experts including representative bodies, think tanks and independent experts.

Part One: Employer investment in context

• Louise Murphy, Economist, Resolution Foundation
  • Investment in the round

   

• Dr Vicki Belt, Deputy Director, Enterprise Research Centre, Warwick Business School
  • UK enterprises and investment in capital and training

   

• Becci Newton, Director, Public Policy Research, Institute of Employment Studies
  • Employer investment in training in England

Part Two: Drivers of employer investment in training

• Neil Carberry, Chief Executive, Recruitment and Employment Confederation
  • Derived demand, British management and employer investment in training

     

• Ewart Keep, Professor Emeritus, Education Department, University of Oxford
  • Strategies to drive-up employer investment in training

   

• Sam Alvis, Head of Economy, Green Alliance
  • Transitioning to net zero, green skills and employer investment in training

   

• Dan Lucy, Director of HR, Institute of Employment Studies
  • Job quality, job design and driving-up employer investment in training

   

• Natasha Waller, Policy Manager, LEP Network
  • Local inward investment, business support and employer demand for training

   

• Jovan Luzajic, Acting Assistant Director of Policy, Universities UK
  • Universities, R&D, business innovation and meeting employer skills needs

   

• David Hughes, Chief Executive, Association of Colleges
  • FE colleges, business innovation and meeting employer skills needs

Part Three: Increasing employer investment in training

• Paul Bivand, Labour Market Consultant
  • Why should employers invest in training in a flexible labour market?

   

• Aidan Relf, Skills Consultant
  • Why should employers invest in training with large net worker migration into the UK?

   

• Stephen Evans, Chief Executive, Learning and Work Institute
  • Raising employer investment in training

   

• Robert West, Head of Education and Skills, CBI
  • Increasing employer investment in training

   

• Lizzie Crowley, Skills Policy Adviser, CIPD
  • Encouraging employer demand for training

   

• Anthony Painter, Director and Daisy Hooper, Head of Policy and Innovation, Chartered Management Institute
  • Increasing employer demand for management training

   

• Driving-up employer investment in training: Pressing the right buttons

Part Four: Raising employer demand for publicly funded post-16

education and skills

• Jane Hickie, Chief Executive, AELP
  • Increasing employer demand for post-16 apprenticeships in England

   

• Mandy Crawford-Lee, Chief Executive, UVAC
  • Increasing employer demand for level 4-5 technical education in England

   

• Ian Pryce, Principal, The Bedford College Group
  • Increasing employer demand for higher technical education in England

Part Five: Raising employer demand for work placements

• John Widdowson, Board Member, NCG
• • Increasing employer demand for work placements for level 3-5 vocational courses in England
• Stephen Isherwood, Joint Chief Executive, Institute of Student Employers
  • Increasing employer demand for undergraduate work placements in England