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UKCES Futures Programme: overview

A collection of all documents relating to the UK Futures Programme, a series of productivity challenges testing innovative solutions with businesses to identify ‘what works’ in addressing specific workforce development problems.

Updates to this page

From:
UK Commission for Employment and Skills
Published:
30 April 2014
Last updated:
11 August 2016
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  1. Added Challenge 3 Evaluation

  2. Added evaluation report and press release for Challenge 5

  3. Added latest thematic report on supply chains to the evaluation section

  4. Added latest press release, "Employer collaboration, the key to unlocking business potential?" to press releases section.

  5. Updated page content in line with updated pages for individual productivity challenges; collection groups updated and renamed.

  6. Added group "Evaluation reports" and linked to first evaluation report for productivity challenge 1.

  7. Added press release "Government boost to help low paid workers progress in their careers" to press releases section.

  8. Updated to include information on the launch of UK Futures Programme competition six, 'tackling gender inequality'.

  9. Simplified text introduction. Updated page to reflect current competition on anchor institutions.

  10. Included link to current competition page to note the inclusion of a Q&A document based around the 18 February competition webinar.

  11. Added note with details of next competition.

  12. Added latest press release, "Developing next generation of leaders in UK manufacturing, construction, and legal sectors".

  13. Updated to include links to current competition pages, progression and pathways in retail and hospitality.

  14. Information on the third competition, progression and pathways in hospitality and retail.

  15. Added closing date for second UK Futures Programme competition: 30th July 2014.

  16. This overview page has been updated to reflect the publication of the application form and the guidance documents.

  17. First published.

The introduction page contains more information about the overall programme.

Productivity challenges

For each productivity challenge we have set out our specification of the problem, in the original competition brief, and information about the solutions being tested through multiple projects.

Futures Programme press releases

Evaluation reports

The aim of the evaluation of the Futures Programme is to learn about what works so that this learning can be applied to future policy and practice. Evaluation outputs will include:

  • Productivity challenge evaluation reports - these bring together learning from all the projects in that challenge
  • Project case studies - support the productivity challenge reports (available on the same page)
  • Thematic reports - these will bring together cross-cutting learning from across all productivity challenges
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