“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world”
We deliver lifelong learning and good work, for everyone
The problem we're fixing
The way we work is changing.
The world of work is changing at speed, but access to the skills needed to thrive isn't keeping up. That distance — between the work that needs doing and what people can currently do — is the skills gap, and it is widening. Automation and AI are remaking jobs, but the gains — and the risks — are not shared fairly. Young people, communities with fewer opportunities, smaller businesses and regions outside London that lack the right infrastructure are at the sharp end of this disruption.
of core job skills will change by 2030.
(World Economic Forum, Future of Jobs Report 2025)
of executives already face skills gaps in their organisations.
(McKinsey Global Survey)
more likely to end up in a professional job from a better-off background.
(Social Mobility Commission, State of the Nation 2019)
years, or five generations, for a child born into a low-income UK family to reach the average income.
(OECD, A Broken Social Elevator?, 2018)
young people aged 16 to 24 in the UK are not in education, employment or training.
(ONS; Milburn review, 2026)
people need reskilling globally
(World Economic Forum, Reskilling Revolution)
Lifelong learning
It's not only people entering the workforce who are affected. Millions already in work feel the pressure to keep up as AI and automation change jobs and expectations. To thrive, we need to see learning not as a one-off stage in life but as a lifelong skill in itself.
Here's the part that makes no sense
£1.5 billion, expired unused.
£1.5bn
Apprenticeships were created as one of the main tools to close the skills gap. But the system is falling short. £1.5 billion of employers' levy funds expire unused every year under use-it-or-lose-it rules: money employers had already paid in, gone before it could train anyone.
(Department for Education, 2025)
The insight
The market doesn't need creating; it needs connecting.
The market is drowning in skills courses. What's missing is the infrastructure — skills diagnostics, levy management, gifting paths, employer and skills matching — that turns money into skills people can use.