This piece was first published on University Business. We also have a directory page on their site which you can find here. Most psychology students won’t go on to become psychologists; most history students won’t work as historians; and most students of politics won’t work in a political setting. Yet whilst not everyone ends […]
Higher Education
UCAS Launches Career Quiz — a New Tool For Students and Prospective Students Which Uses Emsi Burning Glass Data and Mappings
We are thrilled to announce that Emsi Burning Glass data and course to graduate occupation mappings are being used by UCAS in their new tool for students and prospective students: Career Quiz. For the first time at a national level, Career Quiz will clearly show the link between the courses that previous students have studied […]
Case Study: How Data is Helping the University of East London in its Drive to Become the UK’s Leading Careers-Intensive University
In its ambitious 10-year Vision 2028 strategy, the University of East London (UEL) set out a clear aim of becoming the leading careers-intensive university in the UK. Along with transforming curriculum, pedagogy, research impact and partnerships, the institution aims to prepare students for the jobs of the future, supporting them to develop the skills, […]
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 […]
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 […]
How Are the UK’s New Graduates Exposed to the Impact of COVID-19?
According to the new Graduate Outcomes data, over three quarters of graduates go into “graduate” jobs. While the commentary is that during the last few months, high skilled, graduate jobs (i.e. Standard Occupation Classification (SOC) 1-3) have held up well in terms of recruitment compared with low skilled jobs, that is actually not the […]
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 […]
The Impacts of Covid-19 on the Economy and the Implications for Higher Education
The Covid-19 pandemic has resulted in a giant Pause button being pressed on the UK economy. While there is a lot of uncertainty about what this means for the economy and our future, Emsi has been working with a range of partners from universities and colleges, to LEPs, government and sector bodies to make […]
