Other News: Skills Barometer 2025
New-look employees who break the mould are helping businesses address skills gaps across the region, according to the Lancashire and Cumbria Institute of Technology (IoT).
The IoT is a collaboration of eight colleges, three universities and businesses across Lancashire and Cumbria, coming together to provide technical training.
Employers feedback their skills needs and the IoT draws up courses that provide current and future workers with the knowledge they need to make a real impact.
In its Skills Barometer 2025, the IoT spoke to industry experts and employers to take the temperature and asked them three questions:
- What are the skills gaps now?
- What gaps do they predict in the next three to five years?
- What do employers need from education partners?
The report found that employers are ‘reimagining’ jobs to fill skills gaps, resulting in an increasingly multi-skilled workforce.
Manufacturers now need employees who can combine knowledge of manual roles with digital skills to enable them to programme machinery. Healthcare workers using digital methods of capturing data require the ability to analyse that data to spot patterns that will enable them to provide better care. The list goes on.
This innovative approach to ensure the economy prospers was one of the findings of the 44-page report, which is available to download now from the IoT website https://bit.ly/skills-barometer-2025.
