Learning and 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:
Quality Skills, Quality Services
The Learning and Skills Task Group of the Public Services Forum (PSF) has published the executive summary of its final report – Quality Skills, Quality Services - including a number of key recommendations designed to improve workforce skills across public services
3 December 2008
Yorkshire and Humber Regional Learner's Panel - deadline 12 December
The Learning and Skills Council in the Yorkshire and the Humber Region is currently recruiting learners to join its Regional Learners' Panel. The deadline for applications is Friday 12th December 2008.
The Panel discusses all matters relating to the post-16 learning and skills sector and the LSC is looking for applications from full and part-time learners and those involved in work-based learning through apprenticeships and Train to Gain.
Learners of all ages are being sought and the LSC is keen to ensure there is representation from all sectors of the community and from each of the four sub-regions of Yorkshire and the Humber, that is: West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and the Humber and East Riding.
NIACE, the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education is co-ordinating recruitment to the Panel. Please help to promote the Panel and the recruitment opportunity to learners you are in contact with via the attached Application Form, which contains more information on what the Panel does.
1 December 2008
Recruitment to Regional Learners' Panel - deadline Friday 12th December
The Learning and Skills Council in the Yorkshire and the Humber Region is currently recruiting learners to join its Regional Learners' Panel. The deadline for applications is Friday 12th December 2008.
The Panel discusses all matters relating to the post-16 learning and skills sector and the LSC is looking for applications from full and part-time learners and those involved in work-based learning through apprenticeships and Train to Gain.
Learners of all ages are being sought and the LSC is keen to ensure there is representation from all sectors of the community and from each of the four sub-regions of Yorkshire and the Humber, that is: West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire, South Yorkshire and the Humber and East Riding.
NIACE, the National Institute of Adult Continuing Education is co-ordinating recruitment to the Panel. Please help to promote the Panel and the recruitment opportunity to learners you are in contact with via the attached Application Form, which also contains more information on what the Panel does.
Further queries and returned application forms can be directed to john.lawton@niace.org.uk or phone John Lawton on 079200 40649.
1 December 2008
Wales TUC Courses for all union reps - September 2008 - July 2009
Details of TUC Education in Wales Union reps courses 2008/09
24 November 2008
Are you the weak link in your workplace's Internet defences?
As Get Safe Online Week draws to a close today (Friday), the TUC is launching a new toolkit to help improve workers' Internet security awareness and skills. The TUC is concerned that while employers are improving their Internet security systems, their good work could be undermined if they fail to ensure that their staff's skills are up-to-date.
21 November 2008
Raising the bar: What next for the early childhood education and care workforce?
This new joint report by the TUC and Daycare Trust highlights the poor pay and conditions that affect large numbers of the early years workforce and it calls on the Government to establish a high-level social partnership group with a clear remit to recommend measures to tackle the problem.
PDF version available for download
17 November 2008
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