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Is manufacturing finished in the UK?
The Guardian newspaper highlights a report by Cambridge University for the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS), showing that Britain’s manufacturing sector is much larger than official figures ... -
Automation and the future of work: the Chatbot
According to the Office for National Statistics, around 1.5 million jobs in England are at high risk of some of their duties and tasks being automated in the future. The ... -
Understanding Labour Market data
The increasing power of processors and the advent of Open Data provides us information in many areas of society including about the Labour Market. Labour Market data has many uses, ... -
Empower to Shape Change: Learning and Identities in the Changing World of Work
As regular readers of this blog will know, Pontydysgu were members of a consortium in a project called EmployID, funded by the European Commission. The project focused on changing work ... -
Developing a skills taxonomy
This morning's mailing from the Marchmont Employment and Skills Observatory reports that NESTA have launched an interesting new Tool - a UK skills taxonomy: “Skill shortages are costly and can ... -
The development of Labour Market Information systems
Over the past few years, part of my work has been involved in the design and development of Labour Market Information Systems. But just as with any facet of using ... -
Data and the future of universities
I've been doing quite a lot of thinking about how we use data in education. In the last few years two things have combined - the computing ability to collect ... -
Learning about Careers: Open data and Labour Market Intelligence
I've spent a lot of the last two months writing papers. I am not really sure why - other than people keep asking me to and I really do have ... -
Are job algorithms good enough?
We've all made jokes about the jobs that various 'professional' social networks recommend for us. This morning I had a message from ResearchGate: LinkedIn is no better. Here are two ... -
Why is there such a big gender difference in graduate employment
In our work on Labour Market Information Systems, we frequently talk about the differences between labour market information and labour market intelligence in terms of making sense and meanings from ...
