Projects and case studies
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Understanding mature entrants’ transitions to postgraduate study
This study consolidated and improved the information base on mature postgraduate students in order to understand:their profile and participationtheir motivations to studytheir pre-entry activities (in the years between undergraduate study and...
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Evaluation of the Apprenticeship Trailblazers
The Apprenticeship Trailblazers were introduced as a means of addressing recommendations from the Richard Review (2012), that employers are ‘best placed to judge the quality and relevance of training and demand the highest possible standards...
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Provision of an online survey for EU-OSHA agency stakeholders
IES has been commissioned to carry out an online survey among the subscribers to OSHmail (around 50,000 e-mail addresses). The survey will be carried in all official EU languages plus Icelandic and Norwegian. The survey will provide feedback on...
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Family Nurse workforce survey
The Family Nurse Partnership (FNP) programme is well established in the USA, where there is a body of evidence to demonstrate its success. Family Nurses work with disadvantaged families, specifically during pregnancy and the child's first two...
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Staff survey and pay benchmarking
For the Architects' Registration Board (ARB), we carried out two pieces of work: pay and reward benchmarking, and a staff survey with associated focus groups. The ARB's activities are specialised, so it is not directly comparable to most private,...
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Evaluation of Apprenticeship Grant for Employers of 16 to 24 year olds
At a point when youth unemployment was a particular challenge, the Apprenticeship Grant for Employment was designed to make a significant contribution to ameliorating this problem, with potentially major savings to the long-term social...
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Ex-post evaluation of the ESENER survey
The European Survey of Enterprises on New and Emerging Risks (ESENER) is a pan-European survey of enterprises across 31 countries and is focussed on exploring management practice and policy with regard to managing health and safety risks at work....
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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...
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Evaluation of EU-OSHA's use of the European Enterprise Network for passing information on OSH to SMEs
IES was commissioned by EU-OSHA to evaluate its communication partnership project (CPP), the aim of which is to improve the reach of communication on OSH topics to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) across Europe. The evaluation included a...
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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...