This is the first of two contributions we have made to a new report from Campaign for Learning and NCFE — Revolutionary Forces: Shaping the Post-16 White Paper — which sets out to identify the forces by which the post-16 education system will be shaped and will need to respond to. Waiting for economic data […]
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Changing Skills Demand: What is Happening Throughout the Nation?
Over the month of June, we’ve been setting out the case for our new Language of Skills — an initiative which is all about helping people define the skills they have, enabling employers to articulate the skills they need, and giving education providers the understanding of which skills they need to be teaching. The […]
Making the Career Coach Experience Even Better
We’ve made a number of improvements to our Career Coach tool, which we think will really benefit our customers, and even more crucially, their end users: learners and prospective learners. There are five changes that we want to tell you about, plus a reminder of a fantastic facility that has been available for some […]
An Analysis of May Claimant Counts and the Furlough Scheme
A couple of weeks back, we started to look at how the shutdown of large parts of the economy is beginning to impact the labour market. The figures made for grim reading, with more than 100 Local Authorities across the country seeing claimant counts more than double in the year up to April, and […]
Education Providers and the Language of Skills
If people looking for work and employers looking for workers can better articulate the skills they have and the skills they need using the same Language of Skills (as we have set out here and here), then we will have moved a significant way towards closing the skills gap that has dogged the labour […]
The Impacts of Covid-19 on the Economy and the Implications for Higher Education
The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a giant Pause button being pressed on the UK economy. While there is a lot of uncertainty about what this means for the economy and our future, Emsi has been working with a range of partners from universities and colleges, to LEPs, government and sector bodies to make […]
Preparing Your College For the Future – Part 4: Introducing FE Analyst and the Covid Regional Recovery Report
This is the fourth and final part of a four part series (Parts 1, 2 and 3 are here, here, and here). Throughout this series, the basic question we’ve been seeking to answer is this: how can colleges prepare for the future when the future is so uncertain? What we’ve shown is how data can […]
