The disruption to normal college activities during the ongoing restrictions has made it really hard for Marketing Teams to engage with potential students. This is causing a good deal of anxiety, with many colleges reporting applications down on previous years, and with genuine uncertainty as to how many people are going to be coming […]
Further Education
Tracking Employer Demand for Higher and Technical Skills
The recent Post-16 White Paper — Skills for Jobs — places significant emphasis on higher technical skills (levels 4 and 5), with plans for reform, including a new approval system based on employer-led standards. As the Paper notes, whilst these skills are increasingly in-demand, this is not currently being met by sufficient supply, which […]
National Apprenticeship Week: Focus on Identifying Demand for Degree Apprenticeships
This week is National Apprenticeship Week, the annual celebration of apprenticeships, and a chance to highlight the benefits both to those who undertake one, as well as employers who are either already running schemes, or thinking of doing so. Labour Market Insight can play a big role in the success of apprenticeship programmes, since it […]
A New Consultancy Report for Colleges: Assessing the Effects of Economic Disruption in Your Area.
A question we keep hearing from colleges across the country is, “What’s going on in our local economy?”. This is hardly surprising, given the level of disruption that is occurring, but can we actually get answers to this question, which can then feed into a strategic response? The answer is yes, and in order […]
Changing Skills Demand: Identifying Niche Skills in an Area.
In the first part of this series looking at changing skills demand, we considered some of the changes in skills in the UK over the past few years, and more specifically since the beginning of the year. In this piece, we want to go beyond the national landscape, and take a look at skills at […]
Covid-19 Regional Response & Recovery
We’ve put out a lot of data in the past few months, in order to help you get a better understanding of what is happening in the labour market at the national and regional level during this crisis. In particular, we’ve highlighted employer demand through the lens of our Job Posting Analytics, to get a […]
Emsi’s Contribution to a New Report From Campaign for Learning and NCFE: Automation, Covid-19 and the Future of Jobs
This is the second of two contributions we 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. The growing economic crisis is […]
Emsi’s Contribution to a New Report From Campaign for Learning and NCFE: Declining and Growing Sectors Post Covid-19
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
