Projects and case studies

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  • Research on employment in the personal and household services sector in the EU

    IES was commissioned by the French research institute ORSEU to conduct research into employment in the personal and household services sector in the UK, as part of an international comparative project for the European Commission.The research took...

  • Induction processes and development of career entrants (INDUCT II)

    The project extended ongoing research on "Induction processes and development of career entrants" (INDUCT II) and included a survey on company perception, acceptance, use and development of the qualifications of career entrants in selected...

  • Doctoral Graduates Destinations Digest

    IES is continuing to support the work of Vitae and CRAC to explore employment destinations, early careers and impact of doctoral graduates. The latest work analyses results from the Longitudinal Destinations of Leavers from Higher Education survey...

  • Strengths and engaging manager Knowledge Knibbles for Lewisham/Greenwich

    Over the past two years, IES has been running short events – we call them ‘Knowledge Knibbles’ – for line managers in two London boroughs, Lewisham and Greenwich. These have covered two topics: strengths-based management and engaging behaviours....

  • Providing targeted advice on ESF support to apprenticeship and traineeship schemes

    The aim of this two-year project was to help the European Commission (DG EMPL) support governmental bodies, at national and regional level, and social partners, in both setting up new apprenticeship and traineeship schemes, in particular ESF...

  • Evaluation of the Pathways to Apprenticeship programme

    The Pathways to Apprenticeships (PtA) programme is an innovative arrangement that aims to prepare young people aged 16 to 24 for apprenticeship by supplying a prior, mainly college-based year of vocational education and training to...

  • Expert input to the OECD Post Secondary VET Study for England

    The OECD is reviewing the post-16 vocational education and training system in England as part of its Skills Beyond School investigation, which covers a number of OECD countries. As part of the review the OECD are making two visits to England and...

  • Work to inform the development of the new Leadership College

    The Learning and Skills Improvement Service wished to conduct an audit of the previous and current leadership initiatives that had been achieved in the sector, with the intention that the audit would inform an impact assessment of initiatives to...

  • Evaluation of phase 4 of the Trials to support Raising the Participation Age

    The 2008 Education and Skills Act included proposals for a future government to raise the age at which young people are expected to stay in learning in England to 17 years from 2013 and to their 18th birthday from 2015 and to place a duty on...

  • Adult Career Decision-Making

    Qualitative research, for the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, with sixty-five adults who were making career decisions, in order to explore what influenced them in making these decisions, factors that were most important and the...