Projects and case studies

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  • A National Strategic Skills Audit (NSSA) for Wales

    IES was commissioned, together with IER, to produce a National Strategic Skills Audit for the Welsh Government. The audit drew on the most recent sources of labour market data to identify priority skills needs to help learning providers,...

  • Apprenticeships and Gender and Race Equality

    While for many years there has been a policy focus on addressing under-representation in apprenticeships, progress is acknowledged to be slow. There is continued need to focus on inequalities to ensure that all young people can benefit from the...

  • Research into the feasibility of developing a student satisfaction survey of taught postgraduate higher education courses

    The National Centre for Social Research (NatCen) is working with IES to explore the feasibility of developing a student satisfaction survey aimed at those studying taught postgraduate courses. These important students currently lie outside the...

  • Universal credit and self employment

    Universal Credit will provide a new single system of means-tested support for working-age people who are in or out of work. It will also change the way that self employed people are supported by the benefits system since it will require i) monthly...

  • Evaluation of the Youth Contract Programme

    The 16-17 Youth Contract aims to provide support to low qualified, young people not in education, employment or training (NEET). It will be delivered through prime contractors who will lead or sub-contract work to support and re-engage young...

  • Research on employment in the personal and household services sector in the EU

    IES was commissioned by the French research institute ORSEU to conduct research into employment in the personal and household services sector in the UK, as part of an international comparative project for the European Commission.The research took...

  • Induction processes and development of career entrants (INDUCT II)

    The project extended ongoing research on "Induction processes and development of career entrants" (INDUCT II) and included a survey on company perception, acceptance, use and development of the qualifications of career entrants in selected...

  • Doctoral Graduates Destinations Digest

    IES is continuing to support the work of Vitae and CRAC to explore employment destinations, early careers and impact of doctoral graduates. The latest work analyses results from the Longitudinal Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey...

  • Providing targeted advice on ESF support to apprenticeship and traineeship schemes

    The aim of this two-year project was to help the European Commission (DG EMPL) support governmental bodies, at national and regional level, and social partners, in both setting up new apprenticeship and traineeship schemes, in particular ESF...

  • Expert input to the OECD Post Secondary VET Study for England

    The OECD is reviewing the post-16 vocational education and training system in England as part of its Skills Beyond School investigation, which covers a number of OECD countries. As part of the review the OECD are making two visits to England and...