In the second of the short videos from our recent conference (first posted on FE News), our first plenary speaker, Elena Magrini from Centre for Cities talks about how the rapidly changing nature of work means that many of the jobs that exist today won’t be around in a decade or so. The implication […]
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Addressing the Workforce of the Future: How Can We Prepare for It Now?
Our recent conference — Tomorrow’s Workforce: Defining, Developing and Delivering the Skills of the Future — featured some great speakers with some extremely compelling messages. We teamed up with our friends at FE News to capture the essence of these presentations in a series of short videos, the first of which features Emsi’s Managing […]
Three Steps to Engaging Students on Their Education-to-Employment Journey
One of the biggest shifts in Higher Education in recent years has been the challenge universities are facing to improve the employment outcomes of their graduates. For example, the Teaching Excellence Framework includes as one of its key criteria, “Evidence of longer-term employment outcomes and progression of graduates including into highly skilled employment.” The Office […]
Emsi National Conference: Keynote 3 – Delivering Tomorrow’s Workforce
In my previous two articles building up to our national conference this week, I looked at how our first two keynote speakers will be setting out for us how Tomorrow’s Workforce is likely to be defined and developed. Firstly, Elena Magrini from Centre for Cities will be helping us better understand how the labour market and […]
Demonstrating Your College’s Positive Intent and Impact
This piece was written for FE News. One of the most common areas of discussion I am having with senior management in the Further Education sector right now is that of “demonstrating positive intent and impact”. This is perhaps unsurprising, since Ofsted have recently included sections on Intent and Impact in their proposed new Education […]
Emsi National Conference: Keynote 2 — Developing Tomorrow’s Workforce
In my previous article in this series building up to our Tomorrow’s Workforce Conference in two weeks time, I wrote about how Elena Magrini from Centre for Cities will be sharing her research to help us understand how the labour market is changing, and especially how the future labour market must embrace human skills (analytical and […]
Case Study: How Labour Market Insight is Playing a Part in Helping the Quality Assurance Agency for HE Achieve Its Vision
As the organisation with responsibility for monitoring and advising on standards and quality in UK Higher Education and Access to HE Diplomas, the Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education (QAA) has a vision of seeing a system of “world leading and independently assured higher education”. In 2017, it set out its strategy for achieving […]
