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The focus is Phase 1 of the Teaching Industry Exchange (TIE), which aims to facilitate a two-way exchange between industry professionals and FE providers in order to improve the quality and relevance of FE provision and talent pipelines. The evaluation will assess how well the pilot is being implemented and what learnings can be taken forward as GLA expand the TIE into different sectors.
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Ipsos and the Institute for Employment Studies are delivering qualitative research for the Department for Business and Trade to understand how UK employers use zero-hours contracts and other flexible working arrangements in workforce planning. The findings will provide practical evidence to support policy implementation, impact assessment and guidance for employers.
IES is carrying out an evaluation of a Tips by Text intervention for The Education Endowment Foundation which is being trialled in 2019/2020 and into the 2020/21 school year. Tips by Text is a behavioural nudge intervention, which uses texts sent to parents to try to improve child outcomes in literacy, numeracy and social development. The project will include an evaluation of outcomes and a process and implementation evaluation.
The OVO Foundation has commissioned IES and the Sutton Trust to support them in their work in the Early Years aimed at reducing the attainment gap. The team will provide support and advice on monitoring and evaluation activities to three Early Years projects receiving funding from the foundation over the next three years. The work will also be supported by Laura Barbour at The Sutton Trust and Professor Kathy Sylva from the University of Oxford.
This project will focus on analysis of claimant and labour market data for central London to inform Central London Forward about the impact of the COVID-19 lockdown on the central London economy and labour market. This will provide an overview of the initial impact on Central London’s labour markets and economy, and draw out any early signs of mediium/longer term trends.
We will be focusing our research on the mental health among secondary school pupils in the Sussex Learning Network, the nature of the issue in Sussex compared with the South East and England, the factors that may influence student mental health and the impact that it has on attainment.
The GLA wishes to understand the scale and nature of mental health needs in its FE student population. This is a much under-researched area, althought evidence from earlier and later phases of education suggest these needs require consideration. IES will lead a programme of qualitative and quantitative research which will seek to provide information on the scale and nature of needs, as well as effective practices that FE institutions have put in place to address these.
IES, in partnership with Employment Research Ltd, will conduct the Bar Council Working Lives 2020 survey. IES/ERL will survey barristers using details form the Bar Council’s database, and will analyse the survey responses to provide the latest picture of working conditions in the Bar, and in particular identifying differences between the employed and self-employed Bar, by key demographic and employment situation variables, and looking at changes over time by making comparisons with the earlier surveys.
IES will be working with both The Sutton Trust and the University of Oxford to act as a critical friend in developing two early years projects aiming to improve language and communication through working with speech and language therapists. We will be carrying out theory of change workshops, case studies, telephone interviews and monitoring and evaluation support.
This work aims to address four inter-related questions: How is Defence perceived and understood by different segments of society; How can the nature of work, the workplace and workforce be expected to change between now and 2035?; What are the implications of these changes for Defence; How might Defence prepare for these changes so that it can attract, engage andf retain the workforce that it needs?
Consulting support to Plan International and a specialist communications firm they are working with. This will communicate to all staff the values-based leadership framework and connected career progression tool which IES developed for Plan. The package of outputs includes an animation (of a conversation between an individual and her manager), posters and an interactive pdf version of both frameworks.
Taking a co-production approach, IES is supporting the NHS in scoping the evaluation of team coaching pilots in GP practices and Primary Care Networks (PCN’s). Acting as an expert advisor and ‘critical friend’ IES is bringing to bear our expert knowledge of coaching, evaluation and changing working practices throoughout the scoping process. We are also drafting an evaluation logic model, aligned to the proposed programme methodology.
