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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.
CITB wishes to continue to build on its portfolio of research activity into careers in construction and to expand this to be as all-encompassing as possible (considering the whole journey into a career in construction). This latest phase of the research will have two objectives: to continue to collect key performance indicators (KPIs) from parents and young people and feedback from career guidance professionals to enable CITB to monitor and evaluate their careers activities (annually from 2024-2029); and conduct exploratory research with young people; and experimental research exploring the impact of social class of career decision making through a literature reiew and stakeholder interviews (2024-2025).
We are working with the North Central London Integrated Care Board to develop a new work and health strategy. The project comprises desk research, partner and resident engagement, data analysis and strategy development.
The project will supply an evaluation of London's Adult Maths Multiply Programme including Outreach Roadshow provision. The evaluation will explore effectiveness of the different elements and provide formative and summative feedback on progress. The research will involve qualitative research and surveys to feed into reports.
This is the fifth employee engagement that IES has managed on behalf of the OIAHE, previous surveys being in 2012, 2014, 2017 and 2020.
IES is supporting CRAC with the creation of a career tracking survey for recipients of the British Academy's early career grants: Postdoctoral...
Review of evidence of effectiveness of different approaches to 'work first' activation policies, to try to inform future delivery of UK employment services. Project will comprise a rapid review of evaluations of ‘work first’ interventions, development of a typology for defining ‘work first’ support, and then an assessment of the impact and effectiveness of each type of approach.
Data analysis to support the impact evaluation of The Sutton Trust's UK Summer Schools and Pathways to the Professions programmes. The work involves analysis of Sutton Trust applicant data to identify a matched comparator group of unsuccessful applicants for their submission to the UCAS Outreach Evaluator, and analysis of HESA student data on successful participants and unsuccessful applicants to examine differences in HE access and success.
Line manager training (full day) and one 2 hour online session for Senior Management Team of CIOT.
IES will be evaluating a trial of the JobsPlus initiative, a place-based employment programme to support residents living in social housing.
