One of the many ways West Yorkshire Consortium of Colleges (WYCC) has used Emsi data is in their bid-writing. By using robust insight to demonstrate that they have a good grasp of the skills needs in particular sectors in the region, the group has been able to add solid evidence to many of their […]
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Data Dabbling: Two Ways of Looking at the Trade-off Between Jobs and Productivity
Economists are a funny bunch. Whilst the rest of us might spend our Friday evenings winding down after a hard week’s work, economists can often be found late into the evening fiddling around with new datasets or producing scatter plot graphs comparing Gross Value Added (GVA) in Glasgow and Edinburgh, or showing productivity in the […]
Overcoming the “Inability-to-Articulate-What-Skills-Are-Actually-Needed” Gap
The world of work and the way we think about work are currently undergoing seismic shifts. Whilst much of the focus on this tends to be on the issue of automation, and what that might mean for both employers and employees, there is something that is perhaps even more fundamental. We’re talking about skills. […]
Case Study: Leeds City College — Measuring the Impact of its Apprenticeship Provision
Ever since the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy in April 2017, the apprenticeship landscape has been changing so quickly that many colleges have been left wondering how on earth they can begin to navigate the new reality. Here are just some of the challenges that have been created by the new system: 1. The […]
Can Cities Outsmart the Robots? — A New Report From Centre for Cities Using Emsi Data
There are few hotter topics at the moment than the issue of automation. People are talking about it, people are writing about it, and many people are genuinely unsure about what it might mean for them and their future. But can we actually begin to quantify what things might look like, and where the […]
Introducing Course Vision — A New Online Tool to Help You Align Your Courses to Skills Demand
In our recent series — Three Steps to a More Relevant Curriculum — we demonstrated how Labour Market Insight (LMI) can be used by education providers to rise to the challenge of developing course provision that is both better aligned to the skills needs of employers, and which is likely to produce better employment outcomes […]
Three Steps to a More Relevant Curriculum: Step 3 — Identify Skills and Build a Business Case
This is the final part in this series (you can see Steps 1 and 2 here and here). In recent years, there has been a noticeable shift in the way employers view potential employees, with skills components, rather than simply qualifications or job titles, taking on a far more prominent place in hiring considerations. This […]
