Access to Skills
London Thames Gateway has a workforce with an increasingly advanced skills base and improving levels of educational achievement and work related training. The various successful national and local based educational skills programmes active in London Thames Gateway demonstrate the commitment of workforce, employers and education authorities to ensuring the area leads the way for training and development.
The major universities in London Thames Gateway have more than 83,000 students; overall in London there are in excess of 392,000 full and part time students. The ability to recruit a highly skilled, professional workforce is one of the main reasons businesses are choosing London Thames Gateway as their preferred business location.
London Higher and higher education in London
London Higher is an 'umbrella' Body representing over 40 publicly funded universities and colleges in London, and is the biggest and most varied of the regional university associations in the UK.
London Higher is a membership organization that promotes and acts as an advocate for higher education (HE) in London.
The organization currently runs five core programmes each with its own stream of research and advocacy activities, along with discrete projects.
Our outputs are diverse and include research reports, promotional material, meetings and workshops, parliamentary lobbying, media management and receptions. We also run a wide range of advisory groups and networks.
London Higher works closely with partner organisations including the London Development Agency (LDA), the Greater London Authority (GLA), London First and with the business sector.
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