Local Skills Improvement Plans and the proposed new Skills Measure are set to put Further Education providers under more pressure to ensure courses are aligned to their local economy, and to be able to present evidence that their provision is meeting the jobs and skills needs of businesses in their area. We have identified […]
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Bridgend College: Guiding Careers and Employment Discussions Using Career Coach
Bridgend College have been getting great use out of our Career Coach tool, using it throughout the student journey including in 1-2-1 interviews, course and career exploration, group workshops and much more. With its ability to present data on occupations and employer demand in their local area, the tool is proving to be an […]
The Importance of Place: Part 2 — Identifying an Area’s Niche Occupations and In-Demand Jobs
In the first part of this three-part series, we looked at how data can be used to identify the industries which give areas a competitive advantage over others. This is something that could prove crucial for education providers and economic developers seeking to drive economic recovery in their area, as it helps them get […]
Weston College: Using Skills Insights to Inform Personal and Social Development (PSD)
Weston College have been using Emsi’s Analyst data platform for a couple of years to inform their strategic curriculum planning, both in terms of progressions, and in aligning courses to local labour market demand — all of which is very much part of Ofsted’s focus on Intent. More recently, however, they’ve also been using […]
Free Report: Level 3 Learner Achievements and Skills Demand in Your LEP Region
We will shortly be incorporating Department for Education data on Further Education and Skills into our Analyst and FE Analyst tools (more details coming soon). In anticipation of this we have created a series of short reports for each of the 38 Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) regions, which uses this data to look at Level […]
How to Supercharge Your College’s Student Recruitment in a Time of Great Uncertainty.
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 […]
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 […]
