Our Knowledge and Expertise
Adult and Workplace Learning
We have a long track record for post-19 research and evaluation with funding and regulatory bodies and vocational education and training policy groupings including the former LSC National Office now Skills Funding Agency, BIS, Learning and Skills Improvement Service, Regional Development Agencies, sectoral and other national bodies. This is a highly diverse area of provision and one which has assumed growing importance to policy makers with commitments to raising aspiration and attainment in adults, lifelong learning, reducing social exclusion through educational opportunities and enhancing economic competitiveness through the national skills base – particularly at and up to intermediate level. HOST research and evaluation has made many contributions to these developments for learner groups, provision and programme as diverse as:
- Adults re-entering the workforce.
- Skills change, qualifications and skill utilisation.
- Employee rehabilitation and disability.
- Literacy, numeracy and ESOL provision for adults (SfL).
- In-firm employee development and learning workforces.
- Re-skilling and re-employment programmes for employees of restructuring firms.
- Widening access for adults and pre-higher education programmes.
- Adult educational choices and information, advice and guidance services.
- Vocational education for offenders in custody and in the community.
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