by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 27, 2020 | Uncategorised
Emsi has recently produced a number of articles analysing the economic effects of COVID-19: Analysis of September claimant counts Analysis of October furlough statistics Which medium skilled jobs are in-demand? Demographics of furlough and claimant...
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 27, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Resolution Foundation has published a report on the effects of the coronavirus crisis on the UK labour market. The report highlights which groups have struggled the most as the crisis has evolved, who is at risk as the Coronavirus Job Retention Scheme is replaced...
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 26, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Institute for Employment Studies has published a Labour Market Statistics October 2020 briefing note, setting out analysis of the Labour Market Statistics published on 13 October. The figures show that employment is down by nearly half a million since the pandemic...
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 26, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Institute for Employment Studies has produced a blog on the future of homeworking, looking at people’s experience of it and the implications for HR. Another blog looks at whether the pandemic can transform flexible working opportunities, which includes...
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 26, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Education Policy Institute (EPI) has published a report examining the education policy responses of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic. The report provides a detailed analysis comparing how the governments of...
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 26, 2020 | Uncategorised
G4S, one of the providers of the DWP’s CAEHRS framework, is seeking expressions of interest (EOI) from organisations who would like to become part of their network and want to deliver services through this framework. Their EOI is available here and needs to be...
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 26, 2020 | Uncategorised
Amazing Apprenticeships are running a webinar on 3 November at 15:45 on planning for National Apprenticeship Week (NAW) 2021, which is 8-14 February 2021. The webinar is to help everyone to be inspired on how to get ahead with planning for NAW and to highlight the...
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 26, 2020 | Uncategorised
The ESFA, in partnership with Ofsted and the Office for Students, is hosting a series of engagement events to help training providers prepare for the change to Ofsted inspecting apprenticeship training provision at levels 6 and 7, and to gather feedback to support the...
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 25, 2020 | Uncategorised
Last week was Get Online Week, promoting digital inclusion to the national attention. Ability Net has published a range of tips and resources to help support older and disabled people, to help reduce loneliness and social isolation and to help those who need access to...
by Sarah Sawyer | Oct 23, 2020 | Uncategorised
This FE Week article suggests that up to £80 million of unspent National Retraining Scheme pilot funding could be given back to the Treasury, rather than added to the skills fund.
