Wednesday, 11 October 2017

Investment in adult skills in decreasing in the UK – here’s why we should be worried

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NIESR's Matt Bursnall and Stefan Speckesser ask are we right to be concerned about access to skills in the UK? Recently,  the FT sh...
Monday, 9 October 2017

What are the labour market outcomes associated with vocational education and training?

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Pietro Patrignani is a Senior Economic Consultant at London Economics working on CVER projects. In this blog he looks at the outcomes...
Monday, 25 September 2017

Three million new apprenticeships – but how many of these are completed and achieved?

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Matt Bursnall and Stefan Speckesser from CVER and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research ask what do we currently kno...
Tuesday, 5 September 2017

The benefits of intermediate level skills

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Using findings from a study of all countries of the European Union, CVER's Vahé Nafilyan and Dr Stefan Speckesser look at new evide...
Monday, 21 August 2017

Brexit and the skills challenge

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Sandra McNally, CVER's Director, on skills in the UK in light of Brexit The UK’s productivity suffered a shock in 2008 from which i...
Wednesday, 17 May 2017

Britain's skills problem

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CVER Director, Professor Sandra McNally,  on the shortage of technical level skills It is well known and acknowledged in the government’...
Monday, 24 April 2017

Is there a benefit to post-16 remedial policies?

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Clémentine Van Effenterre, a researcher at the Paris School of Economics and CVER, reviews the impact of remedial interventions for post-...