IER News & blogs

IER's Prof Terence HogarthLink opens in a new window, Dr Emily EricksonLink opens in a new window, and Dr Sangwoo LeeLink opens in a new window have co-authored a new deliverable for the Skills2Capabilities (S2C) project titled "The Funding of VET in Austria, Norway and EnglandLink opens in a new window". The study provides a comprehensive overview of vocational education and training (VET) funding across Europe and offers detailed case study insights into Austria, Norway, and England.

IER's Dr Jamelia Harris, together with Dexnell Peter's of the University of the West Indies, Mona campus, presented some of the main ideas and early findings from the research project "Colonial Legacies and the Labour Market in the English-speaking Caribbean." The seminar was hosted by the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill campus, and was live-streamed regionally.

In conversation with Chris Warhurst, the author of a new book, Skills Policy in Britain and the Future Of Work, Tom Bewick, will explain his motivation for writing this study; what he has learnt from a 30-year career as both a policy maker and practitioner in post compulsory education and training; and what specific skills policy does he believe countries should adopt in pursuing new approaches to human capital.

Please contact Lynne Marston via email to register for the event before 2 December: L.Marston@warwick.ac.uk

A pioneering study published in Studies in Higher Education provides the first comprehensive examination of multidimensional job quality premiums for university graduates across European labour markets, challenging long-held assumptions about the returns to higher education.

The findings carry important implications for how we evaluate higher education outcomes and may help explain why objective graduate advantages don't always translate into higher subjective wellbeing—the so-called "paradox of the dissatisfied graduate."

IER was invited to contribute to the ‘TVET in the Shifting of Socio-Economic Paradigm’ conference in Islamabad on the 2nd-3rd October. Peter Dickinson represented IER on the panel of the 'Greening and Transforming TVET for more Resilient and Sustainable Economy' session. He spoke about IER's work analysing the impact of the green and digital transitions on jobs and skills.