Skills Policy

The TUC has long campaigned to raise the skills of Britain's work force. It's good for the country's competitiveness and helps people find more fulfilling and better paid jobs. Here are links to our most recent policy and research work on skills, education and lifelong learning. You can find older material using the search facilities. The TUC is also actively involved in promoting lifelong learning through unionlearn.

Unionlearn was formed from the merger of TUC Education and Learning Services in May 2006. This new initiative has been developed by the TUC to help unions meet the education and skills needs of their members.

Unionlearn aims:

  • to help unions become learning organisations
  • to help unions to broker learning opportunities for their members
  • to research union priorities on learning and skills

For further information on unionlearn, visit http://www.unionlearn.org.uk


The most recent documents available on this subject are:

Rethinking Apprenticeships - Making quality count: The Union View

This chapter focuses on TUC's current strategy to support high-quality apprenticeships. By Fred Grindrod and Iain Murray.

24 November 2011
Students at the Heart of the System

TUC response to the Higher Education White Paper. In brief the central message of the TUC's response to the HE White Paper is that the decision to allow tuition fees to be increased significantly, allied with a range of other government announcements...

13 October 2011
New Challenges, New Chances

TUC submission to the government consultation. The TUC welcomes the opportunity to comment on the government's consultation on the next steps in implementing the Further Education Reform Programme. However, the TUC is seriously concerned that aspects...

PDF version available for download
13 October 2011
Learning and Skills Policy Newsletter - September 2011

New Challenges, New Chances, The National Careers Service, Apprenticeships, NEETs, Wolf Report and more

27 September 2011
Fees and Loans in the FE and Skills Sector

Last month the government published a consultation document, New Challenges, New Chances: next steps in implementing the further education reform programme. The government is consulting on a number of the policy measures set out in the government's s...

13 September 2011
The Wolf Report

Last year the Secretary of State for Education commissioned Professor Alison Wolf to undertake a review of vocational education for young people aged under 19. This briefing paper highlights the main thrust of the recommendations in her report and th...

PDF version available for download
27 April 2011



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