Universal Framework 2.0 is coming
Explore the evolved Universal Framework and get started with it today
Explore the evolved Universal Framework and get started with it today
It’s never been more important to invest in your learners’ essential skills alongside their academic pursuits. These are those human skills we need to do almost anything: to work well with others, to communicate with confidence and to creatively solve problems.
There are two programme routes for primaries, secondaries, colleges and specialist settings. There are currently over 500+ UK schools and colleges on programmes, and more than 30,000 teachers using the approach globally.
Available for UK schools and colleges. If you are a Multi-Academy Trust, please scroll down.
Recent research shows that building skills like teamwork and problem solving in the classroom boosts academic outcomes and increases perseverance. Into adulthood, higher essential skills halve the likelihood of being out of work and increase earnings across a lifetime. They even boost wellbeing and life satisfaction.
But essential skills – and the opportunities to build them – are not distributed equitably in the UK.
Ultimately, this leaves your learners at risk of a ‘skills trap.’ A lack of early advantage and opportunity can lead to a perpetually lower trajectory – a lower skilled job, lower income, fewer opportunities to build skills in the future and overall lower levels of life satisfaction. But it doesn’t have to be this way. If we provide opportunities to build these skills, we see learners escape this trap.
Each year teachers at schools and colleges tell us what they’ve been doing and the impact they’ve seen. You can explore over 200 Case Studies from all phases
