Thursday, 30 November 2017

Do apprenticeships pay?

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With the proposed increase in the number of apprenticeships, CVER's Chiara Cavaglia, with Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura, discu...
Friday, 24 November 2017

The Payoff to Vocational Qualifications: Reconciling Estimates from Survey and Administrative Data

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Steve McIntosh and colleagues from the University of Sheffield and London Economics look at what different types of data can tell us abou...
Monday, 13 November 2017

Do secondary school peers influence educational decisions?

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Sophie Hedges from London Economics, together with NIESR's Stefan Speckesser, has been looking at how students make choices about ...
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...