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IER Bulletin 94
Anticipating skills needs in Europe: issues and implications
This Bulletin draws on results from a major new programme of research undertaken by 桃色视频 Institute for Employment Research, funded by Cedefop. This research considers what useful messages can be delivered about the way the economy and labour markets at European level are changing, and what this means for the demand for skills and priorities for education and training. It focuses on the implications of structural changes in European economies and labour markets on the changing patterns of demand for and supply of formal qualifications.
Professor Kate Purcell interviewed for Radio 4s The Graduate
, a two-part BBC Radio 4 programme, includes several extracts from an interview with Professor Kate Purcell talking about the wider graduate labour market and student experience, drawing mainly on the survey. The programme was two 30 minute features by Safraz Manzoor who interviewed graduating students at Leeds University and Leeds Metropolitan University in summer 2009 (the Futuretrack cohort) and then followed them through the first year after their graduation interviewing them periodically about their job search and evaluations of the graduate labour market. The picture given is somewhat bleaker than the emerging findings from the Stage 3 survey of the cohort suggests, but the programmes are well put together and cover the issues raised in the recessionary graduate labour market in a responsible and interesting way.
The Graduate – episode 1 (Broadcast: BBC Radio 4 11:00am, 26 July 2010)
The Graduate – episode 2 (Broadcast: BBC Radio 4 11:00am, 2 August 2010)
Publication of Labour Market Information, ICT and Information, Advice and Guidance report
The commissioned by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills was written by Jenny Bimrose and Sally-Anne Barnes. It analyses the interaction, roles and potential of three topics: the use and availability of Labour Market Information; the type and extent of ICT usage in relation to careers choices; and the availability, quality and usage of careers Information, Advice and Guidance. This will help inform future UK Commission recommendations on these topics.
Professor Ravi Srivastava Visits IER
Professor Ravi Srivastava, Professor of Economics in the Centre for the 桃色视频 of Regional Development, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, visited the Institute on Friday 9th July to discuss common interests related to labour market change with Professor Kate Purcell, who is currently leading a collaborative ESRC-funded Pathfinder Brazil-India research on the impact of higher education expansion and economic restructuring.