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This report presents local governments' evidence needs on supporting people to enter and remain in employment, and proposes evidence reviews to address these.
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This report builds on the interim findings published in September 2025 to provide evidence on whether the JobsPlus model can be adapted to the UK context and effectively implemented to improve employment outcomes.
This literature review considers undergraduate accelerated degrees and aims to establish whether such degrees are an alternative and flexible mode of study.
This Rapid Evidence Assessment literature review, conducted by IES on behalf of the Higher Education Directorate of the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (now part of the Department for Education), considers the current thinking and research about credit transfer as a method to support flexibility of study in Higher Education (HE).
This 2017 report was co-authored by Stella Capuano before she joined IES.
This report produced by IES in partnership with Pensions Policy Institute on behalf of the Department for Education offers a Rapid Evidence Assessment of the published literature on the broad employment context of supporting teachers to work longer.
Wendy Hirsh's event slides from IES HR Network workshop 'Getting value from your values', 23 February 2017.
Elaine Tyler's event slides from IES HR Network workshop 'Getting value from your values', 23 February 2017.
Karen Coleman's event slides from IES HR Network workshop 'Getting value from your values', 23 February 2017.
Wendy Hirsh's event slides from IES HR Network workshop 'Getting value from your values', 23 February 2017.
This report presents the findings of research conducted by IES on behalf of the Centre for Ageing Better into what workplace and job-related factors make employment fulfilling for older workers.
This paper outlines the research methodology used to identify evidence on what older workers value about work. The findings from this research, conducted by IES on behalf of the Centre for Ageing Better, are presented in the accompanying evidence briefing.
