ASSOCIATE MEMBERS

The UKSP Associate Members deliver world-class technical skills and training to:

The UK Associate Members are a diverse range of specialist skills and training providers from England, Northern Ireland, Scotland and Wales. They are expert partners and include further education colleges, independent training providers, sector skills councils, national skills academies, language providers, skills consultants, awarding organisations, higher education institutes and education equipment suppliers and more.

Enable systemic reform of skills and education systems, including funding mechanisms;
Support economic development, growth and sustainability by building an appropriately skilled workforce through enhancing skills and education in key industrial areas;
Share world-class best practice in teaching and education policy, design and delivery enabling young people to maximise their potential for growth via a range of high quality education routes;
Create mutually beneficial opportunities and partnerships which dynamically build the capability and capacity required for systemic long term change;

Create public-private partnerships which support quality improvement, relevance and which bring about a sustainable financing of skills education;
Maximise the innovative and effective use of ICT/Education Technology to support the transformation of skills services;
Focus on sectoral skills development for employment and new types of skills, including industry 4.0 and other emerging sectors;