Publication Database

Apprenticeship evaluation 2015

25-Oct-16

Department for Education

The government has published its latest commissioned research on what employers and apprentices think of their apprenticeship schemes over the last year with both groups rating their respective experiences in the high 80%s.

Employment, training, and skills

Moments of Choice: how young people make career decisions

01-Sep-16

National Audit Office

Report from the National Audit Office who �estimate that Germany, France and the USA are�each about a third more productive than the UK. Research has indicated that the gap�could be partially explained by the UK�s lower emphasis on technician- and higher-level�vocational education that combines on- and off-the-job training.

Employment, training, and skills

The employment landscape for young people in the UK Challenges and opportunities

29-Aug-16

EY

A report from EY highlights stark variations in youth unemployment levels across the UK could impact local economic growth.

Employment, training, and skills

Solve UK Poverty

25-Aug-16

The Behavioural Insights Team

A new report by The Behavioural Insights Team (BIT) finds that although young people feel like they have access to all the careers information they might need, this is not translating to a generation of young people more informed than their predecessors about their options and the future of the labour market. BIT was commissioned by the Careers and Enterprise Company to talk to young people about their future careers and aspirations, the resources they draw upon to make these decisions and the context in which these decisions occur.

Employment, training, and skills

England's apprenticeships: Assessing the new system

16-Aug-16

IPPR

This briefing paper reviews the government's new apprenticeship system for England � why reform was needed, how well the new system will work, concerns about its effects, and its implications for policy. It also recommends how the incoming regime could be better adapted to our 21st century economy, and reverse the 30-year decline in the youth labour market.

Employment, training, and skills

Careers education: International literature review

08-Aug-16

Education and Employers

This report provides an overview of the evidence-base underpinning careers education and its impact upon pupils� skills and outcomes. The literature review considered 96 different studies � 73 focused on careers education and 23 on part-time working studies. Only literature published from 1996 and concerning OECD countries were included in the analysis.�

Employment, training, and skills

Exploring the diversity of NEETs

01-Aug-16

Eurofund

Eurofound has released a report examining the NEET indicator and uses variables captured routinely by the EU Labour Force Survey to disaggregate the NEET population into seven subgroups.�

Employment, training, and skills

UK Financial and Related Professional Services: Meeting the challenges and delivering opportunities

01-Aug-16

The City UK

The City UK has released a report focuses on how we can drive innovation and be more resilient and better skilled to succeed. It has a section outlining how to build skills

Employment, training, and skills

Technological change makes social and cognitive skills key to future workforce

14-Jul-16

Training Journal

Deloitte forecasts that, by 2030, the UK is likely to need millions of additional workers with high skills to perform jobs that will require stronger cognitive abilities, content and process skills, and more specialist knowledge. In contrast, those attributes of least importance to the UK workforce includes a number of physical and sensory skills, such as repairing skills, dynamic flexibility, explosive strength and sound localisation. It found that of the 25 attributes found to be most critical to today�s workforce; just two are technical knowledge with the other 23 being skills and abilities.

Employment, training, and skills

Inadequate careers advice is exacerbating skills gap

05-Jul-16

Commons Select Committee

Inadequate careers guidance in many English schools is exacerbating skills shortages and having a negative impact on the country�s productivity, the Sub-Committee on Education, Skills and the Economy (ESE) has concluded in its report. The Sub-Committee urges the Government to incentivise schools to improve, which includes Ofsted downgrading those where careers provision is sub-standard.

Employment, training, and skills