Firms tout basic rights as perks as hiring crisis deepens
The UK’s recruitment crisis is being fuelled in part by the fact that almost half of companies are promoting statutory…
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Talent recruitment success crashes to a five-year low
The battle for talent continues to rage across numerous industries and sectors, with three-quarters (75%) of recruitment managers believing there…
Tech body demands more urgent action on gender gap
The UK’s tech sector is calling on government and businesses to accelerate efforts to close the industry’s gender gap despite…
Teamwork skills ‘in decline as firms seek AI expertise’
The workplace looks set to become a far more solitary environment, with interpersonal and teamwork capabilities, historically fundamental to the…
Skills England plan signals new hope for UK businesses
The Government’s plans for a new body to tackle the UK’s damaging skills crisis and an overhaul of the Apprenticeship…
Crisis deepens as UK falls to 45th globally for tech skills
The new Labour Government’s plan to ensure Britain is developing home-grown skills to meet the needs of business and the…
Young guns told to ditch Cannes to go to Margate event
The North Coast of Kent might be a million miles from the Côte d’Azur – figuratively, if not literally –…
Gen Z says ‘we’ve never had it so good’ as £3.6bn awaits
Rishi Sunak and his Tories might be trying to paint a picture of higher taxes and lower spending power under…
Code for Girls reaches key target in training tech women
Code First Girls, one of the UK’s largest providers of free coding education for women, has revealed it has reached…
Academia and business group backs Labour skills pledge
The National Centre for Universities and Business – an independent and not-for-profit membership organisation that promotes, develops and supports both…