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Not published as a bound report in 2002, this year's report appears in the form of two summary updates: Part 1: Higher Education: the New Status Quo and Part 2: Graduates' Early Careers.
Not published as a bound report in 2002, this year's report appears in the form of two summary updates: Part 1: Higher Education: the New Status Quo and Part 2: Graduates' Early Career.
The Council for Excellence in Management and Leadership (CEML) asked IES to help develop a scheme of national performance indicators to do with the development and utilisation of management and leadership capability, and the performance benefits arising from its application. The framework is designed to draw public attention to the issue of management and leadership capability within the UK, and to inform the review and development of policy. It contains recommendations and a bibliography.
The Business Schools Advisory Group of the Council for Excellence in Management and Leadership was convened to examine the quality, relevance and accessibility of all forms of management and leadership education delivered by UK Business Schools, and to identify any gaps between what the Business Schools currently supply and what is needed.
This briefing attempts to disentangle the key trends about how work is changing from the rhetoric, and distil the hype to the essential truths. We spoke with leading HR managers about the changes they see in their organisations and the impact of technology on management and leadership. We looked at 'futures' studies, to make sense of what is being predicted for organisations and what this means for managers within them.
This paper has been written following discussions with IES colleagues, and informed further by a literature search on the subject of job families. All our member organisations use a variety of employee taxonomies and several have experimented with the job family approach. We are interested in what works, and what does not, and in the organisational factors that need to be in place for an employee taxonomy to be usable and useful.
There is widespread evidence from both organisational reports and academic literature of the increase in the use of eLearning as part of a portfolio of training options available to HR managers. This paper addresses some of the challenges in this area for training and HR professionals and outlines some solutions for the future.
The twice-yearly survey for the Association of Graduate Recruiters Members.
This is the report of the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Skills Dialogue undertaken by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES), the Department for Trade and Industry (DTI) and the sector National Training Organisations (e-skills NTO, EMTA and Skillset).
The electronics sector was one of the most vibrant parts of the UK manufacturing sector in 2002. However, there had been increasing reports that the future growth of the sector was being constrained by an endemic skill shortage. To clarify the extent and nature of skill needs in the sector and examine the barriers to meeting those needs EMTA, the National Training Organisation for Engineering Manufacture an in-depth research study. This publication is no longer available.
