IER News & blogs
Higher Skills Development at Work
. This Commentary has been written by Alan Brown drawing on a Higher Skills Development workshop held at the University of Warwick (March 2009).
The impact of higher education expansion on equality of opportunity
Professor Kate Purcell will be presenting this paper ‘Evidence from UK longitudinal studies on the impact of higher education expansion on equality of opportunity’ at the International Conference on the Development of Competencies in the World of Work and Education, Ljubljana, 23-26 September 2009. (http://www.decowe.com/en/).
Higher Education expansion in the UK
Professor Kate Purcell presented a paper entitled Higher education expansion in the UK: the impact on graduate earnings, occupational change and gender inequalities in employment at the 15th World Congress of the International Industrial Relations Association in Sydney last week.
IER recession watch...
The University of Warwick’s Institute for Employment Research, one of Europe's pre-eminent centres for labour market research, is keeping a watching brief on the development of the recession and its long-term implications for the University’s host region: the West Midlands. Read more here http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/recession/