The retention struggle: How to do more with learning and development
Maintaining high talent retention during a skills shortage is not easy. There is no shortcut. Businesses must provide employees with opportunities for learning and development…
Skills Gap
What is a skills gap?
A skills gap is when your current workforce’s skill set doesn’t align with the skills they need to do their jobs. Many companies assume that hard technology skills are their primary skills gap. But, employees may also be lacking in soft skills that they need to do their jobs well
Our Apprentices Can Do Anything
“Our apprentices can do anything” @GOVUK on How an NWS apprenticeship can offer ‘skills for life’ and how apprentices are shaping the future of nuclear.…
National Apprenticeship Week 2024: Skills For Life
“Skills for Life” is both an inspirational and very appropriate theme for this year’s National Apprenticeship Week. The half-life of skills is shrinking making continuous…
Unlocking Success: Why Apprenticeships Are Good For Business
It’s National Apprenticeship Week, and employers, apprentices and industry professionals everywhere are shouting about the benefits that apprenticeships bring to their organisations. But what do…
Time to fix the Levy
Eight years on from the launch of the Apprenticeship Levy, and billions are still going unspent while industry struggles with skills gaps. Anna Clarke, director…
New research shows that digital technology could add £520 billion to UK economy by 2030
Accelerated adoption of AI could help the UK to achieve tech superpower status by 2028. However, businesses still struggle to find employees with good digital…
Skills gap ‘getting worse’ – 1 in 3 education project managers in APM survey
Around a third of project managers who work in education believe the skills gap in their sector is getting worse and that apprenticeships are among…
Davies secures Department of Education Skills Bootcamp funding to help plug data skills gap in insurance industry
Davies, the leading specialist professional services, consulting and technology business serving insurance and highly regulated markets, has secured funding from the Department of Education to…
Revolent Partners with Snowflake to Bridge Skill Gaps
Tampa, January 23— Revolent today announced a collaboration with Snowflake to equip joint customers and partners across the globe with business-ready specialists to help them…
Tackling the skills gap and prison overcrowding in one go
There is a potential workforce of 85,000 people sitting in our prisons. With the right organisation and incentives for business, we could be filling many…