Navigating the UK Skills Challenges Podcast: Episode 5

Lifelong learning: The key to wealth creation

In partnership with the Lifelong Education Institute, City & Guilds recently published its Productivity report, ‘Making Skills Work’, which included research revealing that a significant number of working-age adults and senior business leads identified skills gaps which hampered productivity gains, and did not feel they had the skills required to meet future industrial challenges.

To explore the role of lifelong learning in helping people remain employable and productive at all stages of life, host Bryony Kingsland interviews Kirstie Donnelly MBE, CEO at City & Guilds, to discuss a range of themes around this topic, in an episode including:

• Potential changes to the Lifelong Learning Entitlement
• How employers can work with training providers to boost skills development
• How regional differences in access to skills can be addressed
• The challenges and opportunities represented by developments in the job market, including AI and Green Skills
• Expectations for the government’s new Industrial Strategy and the role of Skills England