With three weeks to go until the Emsi 2018 Conference – People, Place and Prosperity: Driving Regional Skills and Growth in Challenging Times – there is still time to register to attend. Last year’s conference was a huge success, and from the feedback we had, everyone went away encouraged and inspired by what they […]
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Identifying Your Region’s Potential Growth Industries and Zooming in on the Detail
Earlier this year, we looked at a number of Britain’s industries, including the Visitor economy, Creative industries and Logistics and e-commerce, using our new industry cluster methodology. Industry clusters are a helpful way of analysing an economy, as they group individual sectors together according to shared characteristics such as similar workforce, tendency to co-locate in the […]
Five Steps to Better Student Engagement: Step 5 — Fulfill Your Mission to Your Students
This is the final part of our series on Student Engagement. Click on the links to go to Step 1, Step 2, Step 3, or Step 4. Every college will have its own mission statement and a vision of how to achieve this. Yet if we were to look through the mission statements of […]
Degree Apprenticeships: How Can You Identify the Best Opportunities in Your Region?
The number of apprenticeship standards approved for delivery at education level 4 and above has grown significantly over the past few years, with the total now reaching 94. For any university thinking of beginning a Degree Apprenticeship programme, or perhaps expanding its offer, there is clearly no lack of potential opportunities out there to […]
Five Steps to Better Student Engagement: Step 4 — Promote Your College
In Step 2, we demonstrated the importance of linking courses to careers, and then in Step 3 we showed the kind of insight that can be used to give potential students insight on the careers they’re interested in. The point of this is that it can help you promote your courses as stepping stones […]
A Few Nuggets From Our 2018 Data Update
At the beginning of each year, our data scientists begin busily working to update our dataset and incorporate the refresh into our online data tool, Analyst. Given that this involves updating and cross-checking numerous public data sources, which together contain upwards of 20 million data points, this is — as you can imagine — […]
Five Steps to Better Student Engagement: Step 3 — Give Learners Insight on Local Careers
In Step 1, we pointed out that because a college’s Core Product is not so much its courses or the qualifications they lead to, but rather where those courses and qualifications can lead those who do them, it makes sense to emphasise the link between courses and regional careers in promotional and marketing activities. […]
