IER News & blogs
Bernard Casey appears on BBC 2 Newsnight Programme
Bernard Casey commented on the USS pension fund deficit on BBC 2's Newsnight programme, Thursday 24 October 2013.
Bernard Casey Plenary Session at International Conference on Impact of Ageing
Bernard Casey will be a plenary speaker at the International conference entitled Impact of Ageing on Public Finances and Labour Markets in EU Regions. This is to be held at Smolenice, Slovakia, on 28-30 October 2013. Bernard's Plenary Session D will be entitled "From pension funds to piggy banks: perverse consequences of the stability and growth pack since the crisis.
Measuring additionality in apprenticeships - new report by Cambridge Econometrics and IER
A new report by Cambridge Econometrics and Terence Hogarth and Lynn Gambin at the Warwick Institute for Employment Research has been published. The report, commissioned and published by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) considers how the value added by government investment in Apprenticeships should be measured. The report explores how existing datasets can be used to improve understanding of additionality in apprenticeships and especially considers surveys which have become available since earlier research on this issue. Recommendations about further (cost-effective) data collection and analysis are also set out.
The full report can be downloaded from: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/measuring-additionality-in-apprenticeships
Working for a Green Britain and Northern Ireland reports published
The Institute for Employment Research (IER), Cambridge Econometrics and IFF Research in partnership were commissioned by RenewableUK and EU Skills to update its 2010 study into employment in the wind, wave and tidal energy sectors. The study looks at current and future employment and skills associated with the development of the UK wind and marine energy industries over the period 2010 to 2021.
The report, Working for a Green Britain and Northern Ireland 2013-23, published today reveals that together these important growth industries now directly employ 18,465 people full time. That’s equivalent to three times the number of people employed in UK coal industry (5,005 in June 2013 according to DECC) and a 74% increase in jobs since 2010. The report also shows that the offshore wind sector saw the biggest growth between 2010 and 2013, with the number of direct jobs doubling from 3,151 to 6,830. Looking to the future the report predicts that more than 70,000 jobs could be created over the next decade, nearly half of which would be in offshore wind.
ESRC seminar on Building Skills at an Individual level
Professor Jenny Bimrose (IER) will be hosting the fourth Organisational Innovation ESRC seminar at the University of Warwick on 18 September. IER has organised the seminar on behalf of the Aston Business School. The seminar entitled 'Building skills at individual level: the role of workplace learning and national apprenticeships' includes a welcome from Professor Jenny Bimrose and Professor Helen Shipton (Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University). Professor Alan Brown and Dr Lynn Gambin, from IER, will be presenting alongside Professor Lorna Unwin (Institute of Education, University of London), Professor David Guile (Institute of Education, University of London), Professor Alison Fuller (University of Southampton) and Professor David Collings (Dublin City University).
This seminar will investigate how medium-sized businesses can realise the potential opportunities that modern apprenticeships offer, especially bearing in mind the Coalition Government’s intention to expand this provision, and will look at other potential sources of new skills, for example, graduate employment. For more information on the ESRC seminar series - Organizational Innovation, People Management and Sustained Performance see: http://www1.aston.ac.uk/aston-business-school/research/centres/aston-centre-for-human-resources-achr/esrc-seminar-series-overview/.