https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/news/ The latest from Institute for Employment Research » IER News & blogs (tag [mothers]) en-GB (C) 2026 University of Warwick Thu, 02 Apr 2026 14:00:13 GMT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss SiteBuilder2, University of Warwick, http://go.warwick.ac.uk/sitebuilder accolade adult education adult learning ageing aging apprenticeship apprenticeships army artificial intelligence Athena SWAN automotive sector awards BIS blog budget career career adaptability career choices career development career practitioner careers careers guidance CASCOT child labour cities construction cooperative Covid-19 data sources decent work development digitalisation distance learning doctoral programme earnings economic growth economics economy education elderly care employability employer investment employers employer-surveys employment engineering equality esrc ethnic diversity EurOccupations Europe European Union evaluation events Expertise Faculty of Social Sciences families family-friendly workplace pollicies flexible working arrangements food industry forecasting further education future of work Futuretrack gender gender pay gap geo-spatial government graduates Greece green industry health health sector higher education Homepage honour HRM IAG ICT impact india industrial relations industrie 4.0 Industry 5.0 informal care innnovation international in-work progression ISCO job job quality labour market labour market geographies labour market information learning LMI LMI for all local economy lowed skilled methods migrants migration military mobility mothers museum NAS neighbourhood news ngrf occupation older women older workers online social networks part-time work pathways pay pensions phd platform work podcast policy policy brief postgraduate poverty precarious work productivity profiling projections public policy public procurement race refugees regional remote working renewables Research research collaboration retirement schools science sector study Select Committee self-employed skills SOC2010 SOC2020 social care social class social distancing social economy social inclusion social justice social mobility Socialsciences STEM students studentship teacher technology training transition unemployment vacancy VET Visiting Fellow vocational education and training Wales welfare well-being West Midlands women work work experience working conditions working futures worklessness work-life balance workplace learning young people Untagged https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/news/?newsItem=094d43454f275178014f47a113c63d38 <p><img style="float: left; margin: 5px;" alt="clare_lyonette.jpg" src="https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/news/clare_lyonette.jpg?maxWidth=232&amp;maxHeight=154" border="0" />Key professions such as nursing, teaching and social work are losing thousands of potential recruits as student mothers drop out of higher education due to a lack of support from universities. New research led by IER's Dr Clare Lyonette is published today. The research, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, highlights the true scale of the pressures placed upon mothers who go to university and calls for more to be done to assist them. Read more about the project and download the reports <a href="http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/ier/research/nuffield">here</a>.</p> women mothers higher education students Faculty of Social Sciences work Wed, 19 Aug 2015 20:23:02 GMT 094d43454f275178014f47a113c63d38