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 […]
Higher Education
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 […]
Promoting Your University as the Gateway to a Positive Career Pathway
This article first appeared in the January issue of University Business magazine. The issue of good employment outcomes has unquestionably grown in the minds of students in recent years. According to YouthSight’s Higher Expectations study, for instance, the numbers of students citing future employability as being very important in their university choice has grown from […]
What Does Our STEM Report Mean for the Further Education, Higher Education and Economic Development Sectors?
Hopefully you will by now have seen our recent report — Focus on the Demand for STEM Jobs and Skills in Britain — but if not, you can download a copy for free by clicking on the front cover image below. In addition to the report, we also ran a webinar summarising the main findings, […]
New Career Coach: A Tool to Help You Guide Young People Along the Careers Journey
“What do you want to do when you grow up?” This is a question that most young people probably get asked at some point, and very often the answer will be something connected with what they like doing, or something they’re good at, or perhaps something wonderfully ambitious but hopelessly unrealistic. For any young person […]
Three New Faces for Three Key Goals: Bless Customers; Increase Presence; Explore New Territory
With 2019 now thoroughly underway, we thought it about time we introduced you to three new faces on our growing team, and how they fit in with our plans for this year. John Gray – Director of Further Education The number one priority at Emsi has always been to “Bless the Customer”. This is […]
Improving Employment Outcomes for Graduates in Their Home Region
The Office for Students (OfS) has launched a funding competition for universities and colleges looking for innovative ways to help students find graduate-level employment close to home. Winning institutions will receive between £100,000 and £300,000 (and up to £500,000 for collaborative bids) to: “Develop and implement innovative projects to test ways of improving transition […]
Overcoming the “Inability-to-Articulate-What-Skills-Are-Actually-Needed” Gap
The world of work and the way we think about work are currently undergoing seismic shifts. Whilst much of the focus on this tends to be on the issue of automation, and what that might mean for both employers and employees, there is something that is perhaps even more fundamental. We’re talking about skills. […]
Introducing Course Vision — A New Online Tool to Help You Align Your Courses to Skills Demand
In our recent series — Three Steps to a More Relevant Curriculum — we demonstrated how Labour Market Insight (LMI) can be used by education providers to rise to the challenge of developing course provision that is both better aligned to the skills needs of employers, and which is likely to produce better employment outcomes […]
Three Steps to a More Relevant Curriculum: Step 3 — Identify Skills and Build a Business Case
This is the final part in this series (you can see Steps 1 and 2 here and here). In recent years, there has been a noticeable shift in the way employers view potential employees, with skills components, rather than simply qualifications or job titles, taking on a far more prominent place in hiring considerations. This […]
