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Navigating the Transition to Green Jobs: New Report Reveals Skills Gap and Opportunities

September 18, 2024

A newly released report, The Journey to Green Jobs: Taking the Pulse on the Transition to Green Skills and Jobs, reveals that while the UK is making strides toward its net-zero…

Expert Opinion – Edition 8 Time to Sharpen our focus on Skills

February 8, 2024

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For National Apprenticeship Week 2024, Mark Naysmith — President and CEO for Europe, the Middle East, India and Africa at WSP (Patron and Double Gold Member) offers his perspective on…

The 5% Club – signatory to letter to the Prime Minister

September 27, 2023

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In a letter, sent today to Prime Minister Rt Hon Rishi Sunak MP, and signed by The 5% Club, the Youth Employment Group is calling on the Government to adopt…

Learning & development and employee wellbeing – members of The 5% Club ‘best in class’

April 11, 2023

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Employers investing in long-term learning & development programmes see immediate improvements to staff wellbeing, according to new report L&D’s-role-in-employee-wellbeing-2023 The Open University and The 5% Club have released a new…

Transparency and understanding will help the Apprenticeship Levy debate and its potential reform

February 23, 2023

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The Apprenticeship Levy is an area of live debate within the Skills sector, with fact and fiction often coming together to create polarised positions. In this short article, Mark Cameron, CEO…

Could some students be better off going to an FE college instead of university?

February 9, 2023

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Social Mobility Commission calls for central information hub on labour market returns for HE and FE A new report out today shows a wide variation in how different higher education…

Only 4% of employers are spending their full apprenticeship levy funding

February 2, 2023

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New research from City & Guilds and The 5% Club finds that employers have spent an average of 55.5% of their apprenticeship levy funding in the last five years –…

Apprenticeship Levy Reform – A Letter to the Chancellor

September 22, 2022

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Today, as the new Government gets in its stride and back to business, and ahead of tomorrow’s “mini-budget”, The 5% Club calls for greater transparency, ease of access and efficiency…

Reflections on Kickstart – An Expert Opinion from The 5% Club

March 30, 2022

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The 5% Club publishes the latest in its series of Expert Opinions – this time on the Kickstart scheme which closed to new starts on 31 March 2022. The Kickstart…

House of Lords Youth Unemployment Committee report on ‘Skills for every young person’

November 26, 2021

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We are delighted to share the House of Lords Youth Unemployment Committee’s report on ‘Skills for every young person’, published today. CEO of The 5% Club, Mark Cameron OBE, gave evidence to the…

Our Latest Thinking

Navigating the Transition to Green Jobs: New Report Reveals Skills Gap and Opportunities

Expert Opinion – Edition 8 Time to Sharpen our focus on Skills

The 5% Club – signatory to letter to the Prime Minister

Learning & development and employee wellbeing – members of The 5% Club ‘best in class’

Transparency and understanding will help the Apprenticeship Levy debate and its potential reform

Could some students be better off going to an FE college instead of university?

Only 4% of employers are spending their full apprenticeship levy funding

Apprenticeship Levy Reform – A Letter to the Chancellor

Reflections on Kickstart – An Expert Opinion from The 5% Club

House of Lords Youth Unemployment Committee report on ‘Skills for every young person’

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