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Economic catastrophe?
COVID-19 is turning from a health crisis into an economic catastrophe, says the UK based Nesta. With the Government’s Coronavirus Job Retention scheme closing at the end of October, the ... -
Covid 19 and the recession
I've written a lot of articles over the last year about labour market information and what it means both for careers guidance and support and for vocational education and training. ... -
Pathways to Future Jobs
Even before the COVIP 19 crisis and the consequent looming economic recession labour market researchers and employment experts were concerned at the prospects for the future of work due to ... -
CareerChat Bot
Pontydysgu is very happy to be part of a consortium, led by DMH Associates, selected as a finalist for the CareerTech Challenge Prize! The project is called CareerChat and the ... -
Arts, Humanities and Social Science graduates are in demand
As reported in FE News, a new report based on analysis by London Economic, ‘Qualified for the Future: Quantifying demand for arts, humanities and social science skills’ provides quantitative evidence for ... -
Skills Gaps
A new report by the Learning and Work Institute for the Local Government Association (LGA) finds that by 2030 there could be a deficit of 2.5 million highly-skilled workers. The ... -
SMEs are not the same as large firms
Much of my work at the moment is focused in two different areas - the training and professional development of teachers and trainers for the use of technology for teaching ... -
Understanding the gender pay gap
We have written before about the gender pay gap in the UK. According to the Office for National Statistics the average hourly (gross, excluding overtime) gender pay gap in 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 - ...
