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Internationally, the Institute for Employment Research has informed and shaped policy debate and practice on career development services in response to political, economic, technological and social changes. Our research has resulted in new policy frameworks for systems design and delivery of careers services; and has informed professional development in careers policy, research and practice. A summary of the labour market information (LMI) impact case study produced by Professor Jenny Bimrose and others from IER is now available.
Dr Lynn Gambin to lead discussion at Memorial University of Newfoundland
Lynn Gambin is to visit Memorial University of Newfoundland's Department of Economics and Leslie Harris Centre of Regional Policy and Development, where a "" is being held on Employer investment in apprenticeships and work-based learning.
Lynn will lead a discussion on what can be learned from a major study of UK-based apprenticeship programmes (commissioned by the UK Department for Business, Innovation and Skills) which aimed to identify the costs and benefits employers derive from Apprenticeships and, more broadly, workplace learning (WPL) in England. With skilled labour shortages affecting many sectors in the province's booming economy, apprenticeship programmes are a hot topic.
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 桃色视频 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: