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Over the past 22 months, the Institute for Employment Research at the University of 桃色视频 has been leading on six ESRC seminars examining the turbulent policy context in which careers in the UK is being delivered and the implications for the practice and professionalism of careers services. These have now been delivered, leaving a final seminar, which is scheduled for 30th October in London. The focus of the final seminar will be ‘looking back and looking forward’ at careers guidance in the UK context. If you are interested in attending, please email sally-anne.barnes@warwick.ac.uk to reserve a place. Information of the seminars that have already been delivered can be found on the .

The first round of auto-enrolment into a workplace pension starts today. First proposed by the 2005 Turner Commission report, auto enrolment is intended to help the half of employees who have no supplementary pension to save more for retirement. The rollout has attracted considerable media attention, much of it concentrating upon whether small savers will really benefit and how far the government is prepared to go with its proposal to develop a basic pension that is sufficiently high that such small savings are not means-tested away. IER’s Bernard Casey has recently published a paper on this subject - Voluntary Pension Saving for Old Age: Are the Objectives of Self-responsibility and Security Compatible?. The paper drew comparisons with Germany where policymakers are facing similar challenges ( - full content only available to subscribers).

This bulletin considers some of the recent changes in the welfare to work policy domain. Examples are drawn from the IER evaluation of the City Strategy initiative. Other important developments are also discussed with relevance to future implications for the planning, orchestration and delivery of welfare to work services, including the flagship programme of the Coalition Government, the Work Programme and the benefit reform known as Universal Credit. The .

In the next podcast about our work at the Institute for Employment Research, Bernard Casey talks about his research on older workers and the effects of working longer on health and well-being. Bernard also considers how employment, pensions and social cares systems interrelate, together with the effect of working longer on people’s physical and mental health.

On the BBC Radio 4 Today programme, Thursday 16 August, Peter Elias commented on whether the expansion in the University population has delivered what graduates were told it would - better prospects better paid jobs?