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A million young people are not in work. Here’s what we’re building.
News By Euan Blair 18 June 2026 Last year I spoke to a leader at a large retailer who told me she’d given up trying to hire young people. Not because she didn’t want to. But because every time she tried, something got in the way - the right programme didn’t exist for her team’s roles, the cost of a younger hire was virtually the same as for an experienced one, the admin took weeks. She ended up hiring someone in their thirties. Fine, but not what she’d set out to do.
The AI adoption layer: the missing piece of the AI stack
Employers AI is here. But who benefits? The answer is supposed to be “everyone.” The evidence of the past 18 months tells a different story — one of accelerating divergence between the workers and organisations that can productively use AI, and those that cannot. At large, AI can replace the workers who use it, or it can amplify them. The same software, with the same access, can lead to vastly different outcomes. The gap has a name. It is the adoption layer.
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An NHS worker used data modelling to cut an assessment waiting list from 25 patients to one. A council employee built an AI tool that flags illegal landlord eviction notices on the spot. A retail assistant created a stock-out alert system saving hundreds of thousands in lost revenue. None of them had a computer science degree. None of them were new hires. All of them did this during an apprenticeship. Before Multiverse, what was the alternative for a 42-year-old whose role is being automated?
Not Just a Perk: Making the Business Case for Upskilling and Reskilling
It wasn’t long ago that business leaders recognized the value of investing in their employees as a bottom-line company benefit. It was easy to understand: If their workforce could learn new skills and deliver more value, then output, quality, and retention would improve. Unfortunately, somewhere along the line, employers began to frame upskilling and reskilling as simply an employee perk—something that could be expanded or contracted, depending on the economic climate.
New data: Increasing access to economic opportunity with apprenticeships
An introduction to our latest research by Matt Sigelman, President at Burning Glass Institute, and Euan Blair, CEO at Multiverse. The US is in the midst of a paradoxical labour market challenge. On the one hand, millions of workers are stuck in occupations that don’t offer pathways to economic advancement. On the other, businesses still struggle to find skilled workers and better-utilise the talent already within their ranks. To an outside observer, this might seem like a straightforward challenge.
How America’s newest elected leaders can fix its broken higher ed system
2022 was an election year in which voters seemed most interested in the economy, crime, and abortion. Higher education, on the other hand, was barely a blip on the radar of either candidates or voters in the 2022 midterms. The campaign websites for both the winner and loser of Texas’ gubernatorial race, for example, hardly mentioned it, and neither candidate in the Georgia runoff made it much of a policy priority.
Financial services face exodus of digital skills
Widening skills gaps in the financial services sector could trigger an exodus of employees over the next few years as demand increases for digital and data skills, according to a major new report from leading tech startup Multiverse. About two thirds of financial services employees (64%) said colleagues without advanced digital and data skills were at risk of redundancy in the future. A significant number are also planning to leave the sector of their own accord.
Building the Workforce of the Future: From the Great Resignation to the Great Reorientation - Forbes Connect
Michael Moe Founder & CEO GSV Holdings Michael Moe is the founder and CEO of GSV Holdings, a growth focused investment platform based in Silicon Valley. GSV has invested in game changing businesses such as Facebook, Twitter, LYFT, Palantir, Snap, Coursera and Spotify. Inspired by the entrepreneurial mindset of Silicon Valley spreading throughout the World, GSV stands for “Global Silicon Valley” and seeks to identify, invest and accelerate the transformative companies emerging as innovators.
Apprenticeships are the future for digital transformation
By Euan Blair | 20 January 2021 Among the many consequences of COVID, one of the few welcome steps has been the rapid acceleration of digitalisation in public services. In a recent survey 81% of technology leaders across the private and public sector said COVID-19 has created the biggest technology pressure for their organisation that they have ever experienced.
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Key Themes The Future of Learning is Now Learnit Live is the global education community’s chance to take stock of 2020, a year like no other. Covid-19 has tested the adaptability, relevance and resilience of our education systems, drove us to new heights of creativity and forced a swiftness of transformation previously thought impossible. One thing is clear: the future of learning is now.
Building an outstanding alternative to university to create a diverse group of future leaders
Further Education News The FE News Channel gives you the latest education news and updates on emerging education strategies and the #FutureofEducation and the #FutureofWork. Providing trustworthy and positive Further Education news and views since 2003, we are a digital news channel with a mixture of written word articles, podcasts and videos.
Women apprentices 'get less money'
Men are more likely to earn more after starting an apprenticeship than women, new research by the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) shows. The research, published by academics at the London School of Economics’ CVER, considered earnings data for around 565,000 students who left compulsory education in 2002-03, as well as the Labour Force Survey.
Blair: 'Don't ape academic levels in apprenticeships'
Pegging apprenticeships to academic levels leads to confusion for employers, apprentices and parents alike, the founders of a high-profile apprenticeship company have said. Writing in Tes, the co-founders of tech start-up and training provider WhiteHat, Euan Blair and Sophie Adelman, argue that a greater level of imagination is needed in the design of the apprenticeship system when it comes to benchmarking and progression.
'Democratising' the path to a career in tech
A new training programme focusing on helping apprentices to gain tech skills is being launched by leading apprenticeship company WhiteHat. Apprenticeship company WhiteHat will work with Flatiron School, a new coding school run by space, community and services provider WeWork in central London. The bespoke course has been created to help apprentices to acquire tech skills to help them get a foot in the door to start their careers, and it will start later in the year.
A-level results 2017: What if I don't want to go to university?
You’re smart, ambitious and committed, but you’ve decided that university isn’t for you. Perhaps you prefer learning by doing rather than classroom-based learning or perhaps you’re savvy enough to realise that getting paid while studying is better than ending up with nearly £60,000 of debt. Maybe you’re a parent with a child who doesn’t love studying but who lights up when they talk about the YouTube channel they launched or who spends hours writing code for a new video game.
Google Analytics - how healthy is your account?
Big Partnership Digital Marketing Director, Euan Blair, shares a checklist of things to look out for in your Google Analytics account to ensure you are getting the most value from the data it collects. Google Analytics is a powerful tool for any business.
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