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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 ... -
Jobs in cyber security
In a new fact sheet the Tech Partnership reveals that UK cyber workforce has grown by 160% in the five years to 2016. 58,000 people now work in cyber security, ... -
Productivity and vocational education and training
Interest in Vocational Education and Training (VET) seems to go in cycles. Its always around but some times it is much more to the forefront than others as a debate ... -
Jobs of the Future
There is a lot of speculation at the moment as to the jobs of the future. On the one hand, it is said that we are educating young people for ... -
Discourses of Love and Labour
Like very much this announcement in the Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA) list server: Dr Ergin Bulut is an assistant professor at Koc University in Turkey. He will ... -
Making sense of data about education and jobs
High or low skills? Graduate job or not? For a number years now I have been working on projects developing the use of open data for careers counselling, advice and ... -
Thinking about Entrepreneurship
For some time I have been interested in Entrepreneurship. For one thing I resented the way the Thatcher and Blair acolytes had stolen the word. Working class people have also ...
