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JobsPlus is a voluntary community-led, hyperlocal employment support programme designed to help people in social housing communities find work. This partnership paper presents the findings from the JobsPlus pilot evaluation which relate to working with local partners, summarising the wide-spread benefits of this approach.
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These top tips have been developed as part of the Labour Market Evidence programme, a partnership with Learning and Work institute. They share practical lessons on designing, delivering and evaluating local work and health programmes. They are designed for local and regional policy, delivery, data and evaluation teams, and senior decision makers.
The UK higher education funding bodies, which own the National Student Survey, commissioned NatCen, the University of London’s Institute of Education, and the Institute for Employment Studies to review the current purposes of the NSS and how effectively it meets them, and to make recommendations for the survey’s future shape.
This presentation was presented at the 4th European Mentoring and Coaching Research Conference, 26-27 June 2014 in Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France. The research papers were published in the Book of Conference Proceedings from 4th EMCC Research Conference, Lindall P and Megginson D (eds), by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).
IES carried out a review of academic workforce planning for Universitas 21's HR Group, covering issues affecting workforce planning in academia; a description of workforce planning and talent management; and a consideration of workforce planning practice in U21 institutions.
This report analyses the labour market situation of young people in Europe, focusing in particular on the school-to-work transition, in terms of the amount of time it takes to start the first job after education, while also monitoring the more general transition to adulthood, the age at which young people leave the parental home. It also investigates the tenacity of many young people who against the odds continue to be employed during the crisis, as well as charting their transitions from temporary to permanent contracts.
The Labour Market Story is an overarching narrative paper that summarises employment and skills in the UK, and four thematic briefing papers. This paper assesses how skills are used in the workplace. It considers whether employer demand for skills is of sufficient quality and quantity to effectively utilise the skills available and move businesses up the value chain. It considers approaches to management and skills use at work, and suggests ways of raising employer demand for skills.
The Labour Market Story is an overarching narrative paper that summarises employment and skills in the UK, and four thematic briefing papers. This paper covers the supply of skills and mismatches between supply and demand for skills. It provides an analysis of the stock of skills in the labour market and identifies skills gaps, shortages, under-use and mismatches in an increasingly polarised labour market.
The Labour Market Story provides an up to date assessment of the state of the UK labour market and how it is performing relative to our international competitors. It is intended to inform future skills investment and policy to deliver a more effective skills system and alignment of public and private investment in skills.
This presentation was presented at the 4th European Mentoring and Coaching Research Conference, 26-27 June 2014 in Cergy-Pontoise, Paris, France. The research papers were published in the Book of Conference Proceedings from 4th EMCC Research Conference, Lindall P and Megginson D (eds), by the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC).
This paper is second in a series on coaching effectiveness. A total of 644 industry professionals who were current or former coachees responded to a questionnaire. In this paper we identify barriers faced by coachees during the period of their coaching and suggest a categorisation framework: difficulties with coach; organisational culture; personal issues; coaching relationship and coaching model/process.
The Labour Market Story is an overarching narrative paper that summarises employment and skills in the UK, and four thematic briefing papers. This paper analyses current and recent performance of the UK economy and its position internationally, drivers of growth, and the contribution of skills to growth. It explores changes in the labour market and identifies challenges and opportunities for the UK.
