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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 ... -
Transferable skills and the future of work
There continues to be a flurry of newspaper articles and studies of teh effect of automation and Artificial Intelligence on employment and jobs. There are different predictions about the scale ... -
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, ... -
Where do graduates come from and where do they go?
The Great British Brain Drain: graduate gain and loss in Glasgow from Centre for Cities I've written too many times about the problems in sense making from data - ... -
Young people living with parents for longer
WONKHE reports there has been a significant rise in the number of 20 to 34-year-olds living with their parents in the UK, according to analysis of the Labour Force Survey ... -
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 ... -
Graduate Jobs
MPs on the UK House of Commons education committee have released a report titled “Value for Money in Higher Education.” They draw attention to figures from the Office for National ... -
Leaving home
I've had this graphic hanging around for quite a while, so it may be out of date. I think the point of it is that like much data the figures ... -
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 ...
