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In partnership with the Lifelong Education Institute, City & Guilds recently published its Productivity report, ‘Making Skills Work’, which included research revealing that a significant number of working-age adults and senior business leads identified skills gaps which hampered productivity gains, and did not feel they had the skills required to meet future industrial challenges.

To explore the role of lifelong learning in helping people remain employable and productive at all stages of life, host Bryony Kingsland interviews Kirstie Donnelly MBE, CEO at City & Guilds, to discuss a range of themes around this topic, in an episode including:

• Potential changes to the Lifelong Learning Entitlement
• How employers can work with training providers to boost skills development
• How regional differences in access to skills can be addressed
• The challenges and opportunities represented by developments in the job market, including AI and Green Skills
• Expectations for the government’s new Industrial Strategy and the role of Skills England

With the rise in requests for information on questions such as ‘Why is lifelong learning important?’, ‘What does lifelong learning mean?’, ‘How can strategies for skills development and lifelong learning enable career progression?’, and ‘How will lifelong learning benefit you?’, this episode provides key takeaways for listeners.

For further information about the material quoted in this episode visit:

• Skills England
• Lifelong Learning Entitlement overview

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1. Introduction (00:00:00)

2. The Importance of Lifelong Learning (00:01:22)

3. What the government should focus on (00:02:37)

4. The key role of employers (00:07:21)

5. Industrial strategy and government priorities (00:12:47)

6. The emerging provider ecosystem (00:17:11)

7. Your chance to win exclusive merchandise (00:19:54)