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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.
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.
YFF is providing a grant to IES to explore the policies and services that support young people (14-30) on their journey to work and understand how they are tracked. Through desk research, stakeholder interviews and with support from a youth and an expert panel, IES will aim to understand how young people experience the current landscape of policy and what might work better. The desk research will map relevant policies for young people in four typologies - care experienced, experience of the youth justice system, young people with mental ill-health and young people with special educational needs. The research will also map data that track young people across the age range, by examining datasets and understanding challenges and opportunities associated with the data from the data owners. The findings will help YFF to identify where changes could be made to improve outcomes and tracking, especially useful for YFF's future programmes.
Following on from the desk based research and stakeholder interviews, this research aims to gather the views of employers and participants in Skills Bootcamps. For employers, we will explore how they anticipate demand for skills and decide on Skills Bootcamps as a suitable approach for their skills needs. For participant, we will explore how they decided that a Skills Bootcamp was the right option for them, comparing the views of employed and unemployed particpants.
A DfE-funded mixed method evaluation of the new Strategic Language Networks, Language Assistants, German Promotion Project and UK-German Connection programmes aiming to promote and increase take-up of language learning among Key stages 2 and 3 and to improve the quality of language teacher. It comprises an implementation and process evaluation with surveys, interviews and case study visits with observations.
