Skills Builder Partnership

Volunteers’ Week 2025 🌟 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 pic.twitter.com/qjcnH4KZAH

📊 75% of workers want essential skills in professional development. 📈 67% want it in performance reviews. 💼 Top 3 reason to change jobs? Opportunities to build these skills. Essential skills support wellbeing, retention & effective AI adoption. skillsbuilder.org/blog/essential…

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! 👉 Read the full report and watch the webinar: skillsbuilder.org/blog/essential…

Learn more about the flagship education programme for UK schools, colleges and specialist settings:skillsbuilder.org/uk-accelerator. 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. 🔗 Read full report and watch webinar here: skillsbuilder.org/blog/essential…

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 skillsbuilder.org/uk-accelerator 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: skillsbuilder.org/impact

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. skillsbuilder.org/impact

Excited to be at Young Enterprise UK’s 2024 Teacher Conference! 📚 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

Good luck to learners getting results today! 🥳

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 👉 bit.ly/3Mg2Jmk @Skills_Builder @educationgovuk #TopicalTalk #MediaLiteracy

Best wishes to everyone receiving results today! 🥳Results 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 🎉 skillsbuilder.org/blog/the-sains…

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. skillsbuilder.org/careers

How can we drive real improvement in education through the curriculum and assessment review?

Educators, charities and businesses support essential skills at the heart of national curriculum review skillsbuilder.org/blog/educators…

It was Listening in the short lesson 'What does it mean to listen?' where learners match statements to their corresponding sound clip. hub.skillsbuilder.org/resources/what…

Pop quiz! Which skill was the focus of the most popular short lesson on Hub this year?

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? hub.skillsbuilder.org/resources/day-…

Pop quiz! Final question...What was the most popular challenge day on Hub this year?

It’s 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 here’s some more feedback from wonderful Skills Leaders ⛱️

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'. hub.skillsbuilder.org/resources/goin…

Pop quiz! What was the most popular project resource on Hub this year?