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The Skills Commission is a high-level research body committed to conducting inquiries and producing evidence-based reports that make significant contributions to the debate surrounding the UK's further education and skills system.  The Commission has to date conducted a number of inquiries; click below to find out more. If you have any questions regarding these inquiries, or any aspect of the Commission's work, please don't hesitate to contact us.
Spotlight on... women accessing careers in engineering

Spotlight on... Women accessing careers in engineering

The Skills Commission inquiry draws on oral and written evidence as well as a literary review to look at how this issue can be tackled, and was co-chaired by Members of Parliament from across the House Lucy Allan, Preet Kaur Gill, as well as academic sector expert Professor Sandra McNally Professor of Economics, University of Surrey; and Director of the Centre for Vocational Education Research Performance.
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Spotlight on Apprenticeships and Social Mobility

Spotlight on...Apprenticeships and Social Mobility

The Skills Commission is pleased to present the third report in its Spotlight series, examining issues around access and progression in apprenticeships for young people from economically disadvantaged backgrounds.
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Spotlight on older workers

Spotlight on...Lifelong Learning for an Ageing Workforce

This report explores the challenges facing older workers in accessing, progressing in and sustaining themselves in the labour market. It argues that we must adopt a new approach to education and training, continually developing the workforce rather than frontloading education and training at the start of one’s adult life.
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Going Places: innovation in further education and skills

Going Places: innovation in further education and skills

Lord David Blunkett, Barry Sheerman MP, Dame Ruth Silver and Neil Bates, Principal and CEO of the UK’s first college of advanced technology, have come together with the Skills Commission to launch its new report Going Places: innovation in further education and skills in the Houses of Parliament on 8th December. The report, which comes after a 10 month inquiry spanning across the UK, focuses on the innovative practices colleges are engaging with up and down the country, and the potential that devolution has for making this innovation more widespread across the system.
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