About us - About The Learning and Skills Council
The Learning and Skills Council (LSC) is a non department publicly-funded organisation funded by the Department of Innovation, Universities and Skills, with a single goal: to improve the skills of England's young people and adults to ensure we have a workforce of world-class standard.
The LSC fund all learning for young people, aged 16-19 in colleges, schools and training providers, ensuring they have a full range of high quality courses to choose from, so that they gain the skills and qualifications they need to progress into further learning, including Higher Education, and employment.
The LSC's major tasks are to:
- raise participation and achievement by young people
- increase adult demand for learning
- raise skills levels for national competitiveness
- improve the quality of education and training delivery
- equalise opportunities through better access to learning
- improve the effectiveness and efficiency of the FE sector
The LSC have commissioned Opinionpanel to set up The Learner Panel to enable research to be carried out with people in learning and training via online questionnaires.
