Projects and case studies
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Youth at Risk
IES Principal Research Fellow Kari Hadjivassiliou was invited to be the international expert for a European Commission high level Learning Exchange, 'Designing and implementing effective strategies to support the integration and retention in the...
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Careers Information Advice and Guidance Impact Tracking
IES has been commissioned to conduct an analysis of schools' careers guidance provision, linked to educational outcomes, forming a baseline to track the impact of increasing employer involvement in careers information, advice and guidance in schools.
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Research support for business leadership on productivity
IES has been commissioned in partnership with SQW, IER and Cambridge Econometrics to provide research support to the UK Commission for Employment and Skills in helping a group of business leaders in a variety of sectors tackle productivity issues...
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Health coaching as a social movement: Chapters for a toolkit
For Health Education East of England, IES contributed to an online toolkit to support the spread of health coaching as a social movement.Using an evidence-based model of embedding and sustaining change within organisations, we described what needs...
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Update on the progress of implementing the Youth Employment Initiative and other ESF funding on youth employment - Greece and Cyprus national reports
IES is producing the national report for Greece and Cyprus for a study, led by Ecorys UK and PPMI, to update the European Commission on the progress of the implementation of the Youth Employment Initiative (YEI) and other ESF funding relevant to...
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Occupational Route Map for T Levels
IES led the development of role maps across the new 15 occupational routes created as part of the Government’s Post-16 Skills Plan, for the Gatsby Foundation and Department for Education. This involved mapping apprenticeship standards,...
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Evaluation of the Paramedic Pre-Degree Pilot
IES was commissioned by Health Education England to evaluate its Paramedic Pre-Degree pilot programme.The research team took an in-depth case study approach to explore the attitudes, experiences and career intentions of students, and...
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Careers Guidance Provision: Schools Self-Assessment Tool
IES created a self-assessment tool for schools to monitor their careers guidance provision against established benchmarks, funded by the Careers & Enterprise Company and the Gatsby Foundation.
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Study of the Your first EURES job (YfEj) mobility scheme and options for future measures on Intra-EU youth labour mobility
The overall aim of the study, led by Ecorys, is to provide evidence to support the development of the European Commission’s policy support on intra-EU labour mobility for young people.To assemble the relevant evidence, the study comprises two...
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Early leaving from vocational education and training
IES is providing expert advice on the design of a toolkit for use at European level in respect of early leaving from vocational education and training (VET).The toolkit will supply guidance on effective practices and systems to address early...