News & Press

As we launch our IES Trials Unit, Anneka Dawson details what we mean by trials and how they can add an essential evidence base for making important business decisions.

Rosie Gloster reflects on recently published IES evaluations of the Construction Skills Funds, assessing the quality of employment outcomes, the cost effectiveness of the programme, and drawing on lessons learned for skills and employment support policy.

In an extract from Campaign for Learning's Post-16 Education and Skills: Levelling Up Everyone, Everywhere, Becci Newton calls for a clear vision connecting apprenticeships to social and economic outcomes and the need to achieve a new apprenticeship-led renaissance if we are to level up opportunities for every 16-18 year-old in England.

Abbie Winton argues that if policy makers and organisations fail to invest in good quality employment, training and new technologies, the impact on productivity and social inequalities will be far more costly in the longer term.

This blog details the findings from IES' implementation and process evaluation (IPE) into the Coaching Early Conversation Interaction and Language (CECIL) project, which explored approaches designed to help early years practitioners support speech and language outcomes for 2- to 3-year-olds.

With vacancy rates hitting record highs and continuing falls in participation rates, Claire Campbell looks at what employers can do to improve their chances of vacancy filling this year and to attract a wider group of candidates.

To mark World Cancer Day, Stephen Bevan reflects on new IES research the looks at the impact that cancer has on the working lives of people living with the disease and those who care for them.

Rosie Gloster considers findings from recent research regarding what flexible working means to people who cannot work from home, and its importance compared to other aspects of work.