Recent research shows that building skills like teamwork and problem solving in the classroom boosts academic outcomes and increases perseverance. Into adulthood, higher essential skills halve the likelihood of being out of work and increase earnings across a lifetime. They even boost wellbeing and life satisfaction.
But essential skills – and the opportunities to build them – are not distributed equitably in the UK.
Ultimately, this leaves your learners at risk of a ‘skills trap.’ A lack of early advantage and opportunity can lead to a perpetually lower trajectory – a lower skilled job, lower income, fewer opportunities to build skills in the future and overall lower levels of life satisfaction. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Through the Accelerator Programme, we enable you to provide opportunities to build these skills and support your learners to escape this trap.
