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:
Learning & Skills Policy Update - April 2008
This newsletter is intended to keep you abreast of policy developments in learning and skills and the TUC/trade union view on them as well as keeping you up-to-date on a range of union learning initiatives
PDF version available for download
24 April 2008
After Leitch: Implementing Skills and Training Policies
TUC Submission to the Innovation, Universities and Skills Committee Inquiry. The TUC welcomes the opportunity to contribute to the Select Committee's inquiry into how responses to the agenda set out in the Leitch Report will affect the broader structures of learning and skills. The inquiry will provide an opportunity for a range of stakeholders to provide a critique of the implementation of the Leitch Review of Skills and also to consider what should be prioritised as implementation continues.
23 April 2008
Higher Education at Work
The Government has published its Higher Education at Work consultation paper which contains proposals to increase the supply and employability of graduates and to improve the skill levels of the current workforce. The deadline for responses is 7 July 2008 and the TUC is seeking views from affiliates by 30 May 2008 in order to inform its response.
PDF version available for download
17 April 2008
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL) and Community Cohesion
TUC submission to ESOL and Community Cohesion Consultation
PDF version available for download
17 April 2008
Raising Expectations: enabling the system to deliver
Initial TUC response to the Governments proposals to reform the existing skills framework by 2010.
1 April 2008
Apprenticeships Strategy
The TUC Response to World Class Apprenticeships consultation.
PDF version available for download
31 March 2008
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