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New EU Skills Panorama Launched
The new EU Skills Panorama - brought to you by the European Commission and powered by Cedefop - was launched on 1 December. In the launch video, James Calleja, Director of Cedefop, highlighted that the Skills Panorama "combines labour market data and expert knowledge with powerful technology that enables you to surf Europe's skills landscape for information and data to find intelligence and evidence to enable informed decisions and choices about skills in Europe." The Skills Panorama "places the best available information on skills and the labour market in Europe at your fingertips". The new Skills Panorama provides a more comprehensive and user-friendly central access point for information and intelligence on skill needs in occupations and sectors across Europe. Data can be explored by skills themes, sectors, occupations and countries. It is intended primarily for policy-makers and experts, providing them with a tool for developing evidence-based education and training and planning policy, including measures to tackle labour market mismatches.
IER is pleased to be a part of a Consortium supporting Cedefop by providing data analysis and intelligence on skills and labour markets for the new Skills Panorama. This consortium is composed of Fondazione Giacomo Brodolini, Cambridge Econometrics, RAND Europe and the University of Warwick’s Institute for Employment Research. For further details of IER's involvement, contact: Terence Hogarth or Lynn Gambin. |
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Capturing data on school leavers' destinations
In October, Terence Hogarth attended the joint Gatsby / ASCL (Assocation of School and College Leaders) workshop exploring how to best capture data on the destinations of school leavers.
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16-19 Summit Medway
Sally-Anne Barnes gave a keynote on 'The Future of the Labour Market' and introduced LMI for All to participants at the 16-19 Medway Summit organised by Medway Youth Trust on 17 November. The Summit brought together leaders from education, business, economic regeneration, targeted support and youth services and VCS organisation to discuss issues facing young people's participation in learning and employment. |
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Emerging results from Paths2Work presented to House of Lords Select Committee on Social Mobility
Anne Green was invited to present oral evidence to the House of Lords Select Committee on Social Mobility on 18 November. The Select Committee is investigating the transition from school to work of young people, focusing particularly on those young people who fall between those taking the A-level and university route, and those who are classified as not in employment, education or training (NEETs). Anne was able to highlight some emerging findings from the research team working on the ESRC-funded Pathways2Work project. The transcript of the Select Committee session is available here. |
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Sally-Anne Barnes presents at the Westminster Employment Forum on careers
On 3 December, Sally-Anne Barnes was invited to speak at the Westminster Employment Forum 'The future for careers education, advice and guidance in England for schools and for adults'. Sally-Anne spoke about useful guidance from a client's perspective, raising labour market awareness and sharing good practice on labour market information using the LMI for All project as an example. Event presenters, including Sam Gyimah MP (Parliamentary Under Secretary for Childcare and Education, Department of Education) and delegates discussed further steps that can be taken to improve the standard of careers advice and guidance in England.
Click here for more information on the event. A seminar publication, including transcripts of the event's presentations, slides and further articles by speakers, is also available.
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Business Class Evaluation
On 26 November, Business in the Community published its report, Destiny should not be determined by demography, which considers the impact of school-business partnerships on young people’s employability, as well as the effects of such partnerships on schools and businesses. The report is based on research carried out by Terence Hogarth and Lynn Gambin at IER that aimed to assess the impact of employer-engagement activities, the uplift of employability skills and added-value impact on pupils of the Business Class programme. This research was carried out over the past two years in conjunction with Education and Employers Research.
Download the full IER evaluation report, The Evaluation of Business Class: Final Report.
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Intergenerational Worklessness and Fragile Employment funded by Public Policy Institute Wales
Low Skilled Adults: Achievement of Outcomes funded by Prospects Limited For more information on these or any other IER projects please get in touch.
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