The final report is now live and can be found here: Talent Commission Report

The TALENT Commission, has gathered new strategic insights into the UK’s technical workforce in higher education and research.

The TALENT Commission addresses themes around: Contributions to UK higher education and research, policy landscape, characteristics and trends of the workforce, funding technical roles, career pathway, progression, CPD, succession and sustainability, perception, recognition and representation, emerging technologies and technical skills, technical staff as teachers and technical partnerships.

It makes 16 overarching recommendations to guide delivery of this vision. A series of targeted recommendations for specific stakeholder groups: employers of technical staff, funders, government and policy makers, professional bodies and learned societies and the technical community have also been proposed.