Volunteersโ Week 2025 ๐
We're spotlighting our incredible colleagues who volunteer, Building essential skills in pratice
Their stories, from ABM Breastfeeding Support & Girlguiding to Fair Frome's food bank & Blythe Bridge High School, show skills in action. #VolunteersWeek https://t.co/qjcnH4KZAH
๐ 75% of workers want essential skills in professional development.
๐ 67% want it in performance reviews.
๐ผ Top 3 reason to change jobs? Opportunities to build these skills.
Essential skills support wellbeing, retention & effective AI adoption.
https://t.co/XvjBX1mx2x
Workers required to use AI daily report 43% higher anxiety.
But building essential skills like Adapting, Speaking & Teamwork can cut that by up to 9%.
Essential skills support wellbeing!
๐ Read the full report and watch the webinar: https://t.co/XvjBX1n4S5
Learn more about the flagship education programme for UK schools, colleges and specialist settings:https://t.co/xdQNyBqr2j.
Less than 150 fully-funded programme places remain for 2025-26.
The Essential Skills Tracker 2025 is live!
Our research shows essential skills like Creativity & Problem Solving are key for using AI, boosting pay & reducing inequality.
๐ Read full report and watch webinar here:
https://t.co/XvjBX1mx2x
Applications for 2025-26 are now open. The next application deadline is Friday 23rd May.
Less than 150 fully-funded programme places remain for new schools, colleges and specialist settings.
Visit https://t.co/xdQNyBqYRR to find out more and register your interest today.
Last week, we published the 2024 Impact Report, and the positive response has been truly inspiring!
We are very grateful to our global network of partners that are helping push the mission for essential skills.
You can find the full report here: https://t.co/cgXw3m0Kkj
Our 2024 Impact Report is here!
A huge thank you to our partners for your commitment to creating lasting change. Your dedication makes this progress possible.
Read the full report and explore the collective impact of the Skills Builder Partnership.
https://t.co/cgXw3m0Kkj
Excited to be at Young Enterprise UKโs 2024 Teacher Conference! ๐ Today, our very own Priya Senior is guiding educators on how to build essential skills for students. Empowering the next generation to succeed! #YEUK2024#FutureSkills@youngenterprise
With concerns about online misinformation shaping curriculum changes, it's never been more important to build critical-thinking and media-literacy skills. Explore the role of the media and help students develop these key skills ๐ https://t.co/HBXYwvw5ik @Skills_Builder@educationgovuk #TopicalTalk #MediaLiteracy
Best wishes to everyone receiving results today! ๐ฅณResults day is an important milestone in your educational journey - and along the way, you'll have developed essential skills like teamwork, aiming high, and staying positive - skills that will serve you well in your next steps!
Congratulations to the The Sainsbury Family Charitable Trusts for achieving a Skills Builder Bronze Excellence Mark for their work to develop essential skills ๐
https://t.co/NMOSSCJOLl
We're hiring a Marketing and Communications Associate! The role's an exciting opportunity to put your experience and skills into practice in a supportive and fun environment, helping to drive our work's scale and impact.
Applications end 30 August at 9am. https://t.co/vonwFrCcaX
How can we drive real improvement in education through the curriculum and assessment review? Last week Lord Aberdare and Lord Knight recommended that the government use the @Skills_Builder Universal Framework to build and measure essential skills in 11-16 education.
It was Listening in the short lesson 'What does it mean to listen?' where learners match statements to their corresponding sound clip. https://t.co/0Rc9irKbBc
That's right. It was A Day In Politics...very topical: Over the course of the challenge, learners apply Steps 10-12 in all eight essential skills as they consider: What makes a successful political party? https://t.co/Ofjqe50wpb
Itโs the end of term! Thanks to schools and colleges for all your work to build your learners' essential skills. We wish you a restful summer break and look forward to working with you in the coming academic year! Oh, and hereโs some more feedback from wonderful Skills Leaders โฑ๏ธ
It's Going Green! In this project, learners build Steps 0 and 1 in Listening, Speaking and Problem Solving as they consider: What does it mean to be 'green'? They research and create a campaign to encourage others to 'go green'. https://t.co/tkVq2a9nRe