The Skills Builder Partnership brings together educators, employers, organisations and individuals across the world, towards a common mission:
One day, everyone will build the essential skills to succeed.
Everything the Partnership does is geared towards making sure there are opportunities for everyone, from children to adults, and that the skills that are focussed on in education and reflected in opportunities in employment.
Skills Builder Partnership has focused on how to build essential skills rigorously for over a decade. In the process, the development of Skills Builder's award-winning Universal Framework has made these skills teachable and measurable, with each skill broken down into 16 steps.
The aim is to ensure there is a joined-up and consistent way to developing essential skills.
Why are essential skills important?
Essential skills unlock learning in the classroom, boosting academic outcomes, perseverance and self-belief. They halve the likelihood of being out of work, increase earnings across a lifetime, and improve wellbeing and life satisfaction.
But access to developing these skills isn’t fair, and where opportunities are missed, social mobility, productivity and wellbeing are undermined.
You can read the research here.
Who is in Skills Builder Partnership?
The Skills Builder Partnership brings together 500+ schools, colleges and universities, 200+ social impact organisations, and 100+ employers around a common approach.
This resulted in 2.3 million opportunities delivered in 2021-2022 across 10 global contexts, helping individuals of all ages to build the eight essential skills to succeed. As these skills are widely transferable, our partners cover a range of different sectors and outcomes.
Our global reach.