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 […]
Further Education
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 […]
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 […]
Preparing Your College For the Future – Part 2: How do Your Courses Compare to Demand?
This is the second part of a four part series (Part 1 is here) leading up to a webinar on 9th June — Preparing Your College for the Future — in which we’ll be demonstrating our new tool for colleges, FE Analyst, from which all the data in these pieces has been taken. To register […]
Preparing Your College For the Future – Part 1: An Overview of Your Local Economy
Let’s start with the bad, if somewhat obvious, news. The last few months have taken a huge toll on people, businesses and organisations in this country and throughout many parts of the world. Not only that, but the measures that have been put in place to deal with Covid-19 are likely to have huge […]
