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My Fair(ly paid) Lady? Gender Pay Gap Reporting: Act 2
12 Feb 2019Duncan Brown reflects on Gender Pay Gap reporting's 'patchy progress', and outlines steps employers need to take now if they want to see results.
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Why furthering understanding of pre-16 education is crucial to our mission
31 Jan 2019Anneka Dawson outlines why IES has moved into the pre-16 education research space and how this relates to people's ongoing life chances, including employment.
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Hiring a chief meaning officer? You're missing the point
16 Jan 2019Many organisations are hiring chief meaning officer roles. Drawing on IES research, Stephen Bevan highlights how these efforts may be misguided, and not succeed in making work more meaningful for employees.
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2019 looks set to bring talent shortages, so it's time for creative and innovative HR practice
15 Jan 2019Dan Lucy argues that talent shortages will be the greatest challenge for HR professionals and employers this year, though this will encourage greater innovation in HR and a stronger focus on 'good work'.
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Apprenticeships: how to address gender and ethnicity pay gaps
10 Jan 2019Becci Newton reflects on IES analysis of data relating to gender and ethnicity in apprenticeships, and how pay gaps exist even from this early stage of labour market entry.
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Could pausing Universal Credit create the opportunity we need to fix it?
9 Jan 2019The latest pause to Universal Credit may not be all it seems – but could it create the opportunity that we need to fix it? Tony Wilson, Institute Director, reports in his latest blog.
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Workforce planning remains a missing link in the NHS long term plan
7 Jan 2019Stephen Bevan, IES Director of Employer Research and Consultancy looks at the new NHS 10-year plan and sets out the key workforce strategy issues which will also need to be addressed.
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IES at 50: half a century in Brighton & Hove, our local labour market
21 Dec 2018Our analysis of Brighton and Hove's labour market and employment trends in the 50 years since IES' foundation. Matthew Williams and Tony Wilson delve into the available datasets.
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Revisiting the spirit, wisdom and relevance of workforce planning pioneers
13 Dec 2018What developments have we seen in workforce planning since IES' foundation in the 1960s? Wendy Hirsh considers the need to ensure that workforce planning is re-positioned as a central part of effective people management.
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Industry placements and T Levels - stepping up to meet the skills challenge
6 Dec 2018With the publication of IES' evaluation of the Industry Placements Pilot, which has been testing the work placements integral to the government's new T Level programmes, we discuss the evaluation's findings and implications for T Levels going forward.