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Stephen John Craig
Unite the Union
National Development Officer
@stephen07188550
www.linkedin.com/in/stephen-craig-3010069a
Description
Stephen Craig is National Development Officer with Unite the Union (UK), responsible for learning, and skills activities at public and private sector level. Previously, a Trade Union Studies/Industrial Relations Lecturer in Further and Higher Education, he has taught at the ILO Training Centre in Turin and was researcher on several learning and skills-related reports. Foe over twenty years he worked as a Project Manager on several national/international learning and skills initiatives (including European Social Fund, Union Modernisation, and the Union Learning Fund). A Full-Time Official in union’s covering the maritime industry, education and construction sectors, Stephen has progressed skills and joint union-management programmes with companies including EDF, Fords, BP, Skanska. He was on the Drafting Group for the ILC ‘Shaping skills and lifelong learning for the future of work’ (2021) report; is Trade Union Coordinator (Ethical Trade Initiative); Advisory Board member Work & Equalities (University of Manchester); on the Cross-Construction Apprenticeship taskforce; on the Unite Environment Taskforce and is a UEFA ‘C’ Licence Football Coach.
Useful links
Learn with unite: https://www.learnwithunite.org/
Courses with Unite: https://www.learnwithunite.org/courses/
Publications
Unionlearn (2019), How the Union Learning Fund (ULF) transforms learners’ lives: https://www.unionlearn.org.uk/sites/default/files/publication/ULF%2020%20years.pdf
ILO (2021), Shaping skills and lifelong learning for the future of work, https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/---relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_813696.pdf
ILO (2019), A framework for quality apprenticeships, https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_norm/---relconf/documents/meetingdocument/wcms_731155.pdf
ILO (2021), A human-centered approach to Skills and Lifelong Learning: The role of Trade Unions,
ILO (2019), Lifelong Learning: Concepts, issues and actions: https://www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---ed_emp/---ifp_skills/documents/publication/wcms_711842.pdf
Learning & Work Institute (2020), Levelling up skills after coronavirus The role of trade unions and social partnership in workforce training, https://learningandwork.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Levelling-up-skills-after-coronavirus-The-role-of-trade-unions-and-social-partnership-in-workforce-training.pdf
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