Strategic priorities

Lifelong Learning UK (LLUK's) specific and unique role is pivotal to enabling the skills supply system to increase in quality and capacity to meet the challenges set across the UK. Hence LLUK's strategic priorities at the current time can be summarised as follows:

LLUK goals

to reduce skills gaps and shortages
to improve productivity, business and public service performance
to increase opportunities to boost the skills and productivity of everyone in the sector
to improve learning supply
to improve LLUK's performance and delivery.

LLUK strategic objectives

to secure and interpret accurate and authoritative labour market information and intelligence relevant to our employers
to promote careers in the sector and improve recruitment and retention
to increase investment in skills
to drive leadership and management development within the sector
to increase the diversity of the workforce
to build and maintain the standards based Sector Qualifications Strategy
to build the capacity and capability of the sector
to ensure internal systems and procedures support effective performance and delivery.

For more details on how LLUK is achieving these aims and objectives, please download LLUK's 3 Year Strategic Plan and Business Plan 2008-09.

Further information about LLUK's underlying principles is available in our mission and vision sections, as is background information about how LLUK influences policy and works internationally.