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 […]
Higher 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 […]
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 […]
Looking at University Benchmarking and Competitor Analysis Through a New Lens
Among the many issues universities are grappling with right now, ensuring they are still relating to their prospective students and standing out from their competitors is one of the most crucial. And given the current reality, along with traditional ways of benchmarking and competitor analysis, such as looking at enrolment and graduation numbers, student […]
How Can Your University Engage and Inspire Prospective Students at This Time?
With the national crisis unfolding around us, universities are having to adapt to new and very different ways of working, particularly the transition to remote working and online teaching, so that students can continue their education. According to Alistair Jarvis, Chief Executive of Universities UK, the response has been particularly impressive. But what about prospective […]
Introducing Our First Conference Speaker: David Corke, Association of Colleges
With less than three months to go until the 2020 Emsi Conference, and with tickets starting to sell fast, it is time we introduced you to the great speakers we are lining up. The theme of the day is The Great British Talent Challenge, and we’ll be looking at how the demand and supply […]
