This report highlights the urgent skills gaps and shortages faced by organisations and the strategies to address them. It aims to serve as a resource for understanding skills requirements and provides actionable insights for building a future-ready workforce.

Businesses are facing growing challenges in recruiting workers with the right skills. This paper looks specifically at the role of chambers of commerce and industry in designing and delivering skills policies. It is based on a 2024 survey to chambers of commerce around the world undertaken by the OECD, in collaboration with Eurochambres and the...

The Strategic Review of the Australian Apprenticeships Incentive System aims to inform future policy development for the apprenticeships system, through evidence-based research into the effectiveness of the current Commonwealth Incentive System in encouraging the take-up and completion of apprenticeships. This paper summarises the key challenges facing apprenticeships. It is accompanied by the Provisional Reference List...

This report focuses on the relationship between the management of new technology and productivity, in particular, the extent of education and training in the West Midlands that might support managers in the region to better lever the potential productivity gains of this new technology.

This research summary explores the many faces of course completion and non-completion and identifies instances where some non-completions can be considered to be successful outcomes of VET. In a sense, this approach, which uses student enrolment data, broadens the parameters for measuring success.