The UK’s skills systems across its four constituent nations have seen increasing divergence in recent years. This has made for a complicated landscape for employers and professionals to navigate and difficultly in finding common ground between the nations. This report from CIPD sets the context of longstanding “megatrends” impacting the UK’s world of work, arguing that skills development policy is the key policy lever needed in response. It compares and summarises current labour market and skills challenges across the four nations as well as employer approaches to training, and provides an overview of key public policy developments. The second half of the report focuses on the UK’s apprenticeship systems. These have seen the biggest evolution and divergence since 2017 and therefore offer a useful case study. Click here for more.
