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.