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New IES research, on behalf of the Careers & Enterprise Company, considers the impact of careers guidance in colleges, with examples of best practice which colleges can integrate into their current activities.

New IES evaluation report identifies what employers and policymakers can do to support carers to balance work and care. The report evaluates the success of the government-funded Carers in Employment (CiE) project.

Joy Williams discusses the development of T-Levels and the impact of technical education policy reforms for the IES Employment Studies newsletter. This articles highlights the recent research and reforms, from the Wolf Report in 2011 to the 2016 Post-16 Skills Plan.

How are higher education providers in England supporting disabled students? Emma Pollard writes in Employment Studies on recent IES research on behalf of the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE).

IES 2018 events programme: Preview of our conference and workshops calendar for 2018.

Jonathan Buzzeo considers the Youth Obligation with a look at IES' evaluation of the DWP's Intensive Activity Programme.

The Apprenticeship Trailblazers are the government's key response to the Richard Review, putting employers at the heart of developments in order to increase trust in and uptake of Apprenticeships. IES was involved in tracking the process and experiences of the earliest employer networks that took forward the design of the new Apprenticeship standards.

Andrea Broughton comments on the latest European unemployment figures, released by Eurostat.

The IES and HECSU report for the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills has been published.

Jim Hillage, IES Director of Research, focused on youth unemployment in his comment on the ONS Labour Market Statistics on Friday, 17 April, 2015.