UKIC Skills Concordat

The UK Innovation Corridor’s Regional Skills Concordat: delivering skills, productivity and innovation that enable people, businesses and places to thrive globally in an inclusive regional economy

The UK Innovation Corridor (UKIC)’s Regional Skills Concordat represents a unique collaborative response by the further education and skills sector.

Further Education (FE) Colleges along this key Corridor of the UK, together with their subsidiary employer-led training businesses and specialist colleges, form the backbone of skills delivery in local places and for local residents.

By engaging with employers and working with them and each other on current and future skills needs of local communities, FE College Principals in this part of the country are leading the way by demonstrating their collective ambition to tackle the nation’s skills challenges; at a regional economic geography level, and by working together across local authority and LEP boundaries for the wider benefit of the people and employers they serve.

By launch in April 2019, we were proud to announce our founding signatories



These organisations all support the notion that regional economic growth and increased levels of skills and productivity benefit everyone. The wider experience of the LSCC as a whole demonstrates that collaborative working enhances and accelerates any developments undertaken by individual Consortium members. The creation of Local Industrial Strategies by LEPs along the Corridor further emphasises that this is the right time for collective action on skills and productivity to be taken jointly by providers and employees.

Engagement in the UKIC’s Regional Skills Concordat delivers
• the opportunity to share each organisation’s work, spread the benefits and learn from others
• promotion of each organisation’s work through the UKIC website and marketing channels aimed at business and foreign investment
• introductions to new businesses and commercial opportunities
• the opportunity to secure a ‘voice’ at UKIC’s high profile parliamentary and public affairs activities
• a collective approach to securing future business in partnership with government and other key stakeholders.

The UKIC Regional Skills Concordat offers the chance to be part of something big, to change the way in which we work together and to deliver the aspirations of the UK’s Innovation Corridor as a truly inclusive global economy in which everyone can play their full part.

Read the thinkpiece

To sign up to the UKIC Regional Skills Concordat download this document and follow the instructions