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September 26, 2018

Never too late: Profiling female engineering apprentices

September 26, 2018

Institute of Mechanical Engineers Since 2010/11, about 500,000 new apprenticeships were started each year, linked to strong support from Government. Yet the percentage of female engineers remains stubbornly low. To provide more insight into the characteristics of women who do choose engineering apprenticeships, in 2017 the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and Gatsby Charitable Foundation commissioned […]

September 19, 2018

Machines predicted to create 58 million more jobs than they displace by 2022 according to the World Economic Forum

September 19, 2018

Their ‘Future of Jobs’ report, published on the 17th September 2018, predicts massive workforce changes in both workforce composition and skills demand as businesses expand the use of automation and artificial intelligence in their daily operations. It suggests that by 2022 133 million new jobs will emerge as businesses develop a new division of labour […]

September 10, 2018

Labour market outlook: Views from employers – Summer 2018

September 10, 2018

By CIPD (published August 2018) The quarterly CIPD Labour Market Outlook (LMO) provides a set of forward-looking labour market indicators, highlighting employers’ recruitment, redundancy and pay intentions for the third quarter of 2018. The survey is based on responses from 2,001 employers. The report shows that hard-to-fill vacancies have continued to rise. Among employers who currently […]

September 10, 2018

A level myth buster – summary report

September 10, 2018

By The Careers & Enterprise Company (published August 2018) A levels play a key role in shaping the career choices of many young people. Choices about qualifications are career choices, as are the decisions made when reacting to the outcome of an exam. Given this, it is important that young people have good information to underpin […]

September 10, 2018

Solving future skills challenges

September 10, 2018

By Universities UK (published August 2018) The onset of the Fourth Industrial Revolution – automation, robotics, artificial intelligence and digital technology – and challenges of Brexit and an ageing population are creating rising demand for those with qualifications above Level 4 (HNC/Ds, foundation, undergraduate and postgraduate degrees). This report looks at the rapid pace of […]

September 10, 2018

The experiences of individuals in the gig economy

September 10, 2018

By HM Government (published August 2018) The gig economy is a rapidly developing part of the UK’s labour market. The growth of technology has enabled the development of online platforms to facilitate the matching of supply of demand for work in a range of areas and involving a range of skills. This research report contains […]

September 10, 2018

Skills shortages in the UK economy

September 10, 2018

By The Edge Foundation (published July 2018) The second of the education charity’s bulletins on the UK’s skills shortages shines a spotlight on the tech industry and the devastating economic impact of the government’s failure to encourage young people to study relevant subjects and upskill existing workers. This second bulletin includes new data from the […]

September 10, 2018

Springtern: springboarding or stringing along young interns’ careers?

September 10, 2018

By Jenna Jacobson & Leslie Regan Shade in Journal of Education and Work 31(3) (published July 2018) Young people are repeatedly promised that internships will pave the way to the career of their dreams by providing the ‘hands-on experience’ necessary to differentiate themselves in a fierce job market. However, in many industries, internships – and increasingly unpaid […]

September 10, 2018

Employer skill survey 2018

September 10, 2018

By Department for Education (published August 2018) The UK Employer Skills Survey (ESS) is one of the largest business surveys in the world, with the data in this report based on survey responses from over 87,000 employers. The survey provides a comprehensive source of intelligence on the skills challenges that UK employers face both within their […]

August 24, 2018

Essays on Employer Engagement in Education

August 24, 2018

Edited by Anthony Mann, Prue Huddleston and Elnaz Kashefpakdel (Published August 2018) The book is available to purchase via Routledge, and Amazon. Summaries of the following chapters are now available online: Chapter 5: Socialised social capital? The capacity of schools to use careers provision to compensate for social capital deficiencies among teenagers. By Anthony Mann, Elnaz Kashefpakdel and Christian […]