This post uses our UK Employer Skills Survey 2013 data to explain skills shortage vacancies in Wales. What is a skills shortage vacancy? How is it different to a skills gap? If you’re one of the 5,996 businesses that answered the UKCES Employer Skills Survey in Wales …
This is the first in a series of short articles explaining the labour market, technical jargon, and the skills system. This post uses our UK Employer Skills Survey 2013 data to explain skills gaps in Wales. What is a skills gap? It’s a trickier …
This is the first in a series of short articles explaining the labour market, technical jargon, and the skills system. This post uses our UK Employer Skills Survey 2013 data to explain skills gaps in Wales. What is a skills gap? It’s a trickier …
After six years of grim news on the economy and the labour market, we seem to turned a corner. The question on everybody’s minds is “are things finally getting better?” Because we talk to over 90,000 employers across the UK …
What will be the next must-have smartphone? Who will win the next British Bake Off? Will it ever stop raining this winter? Attempting to predict events a short distance into the future is difficult enough, but aside from our digital, …
Flexible and atypical contracts – including temporary, casual and freelance work, along with the more controversial zero hours contracts – have garnered increasing media attention recently, with the issue of zero hours contracts in particular attracting criticism from all corners. …
“If you build it, they will come!” A famous line from the film, Field of Dreams, about a man who builds a baseball diamond in his corn field for the Chicago Black Sox team from the past to play on. …
The UK economy is emerging from the longest and deepest recession since the 1930s. Business profits have been affected, and the public sector has experienced job losses and wage freezes. In difficult economic times, it is sometimes feared that employers …
3D printing, composite technologies, plastic electronics: sometimes it feels like science fiction is becoming science reality. And it’s not just the average person struggling to stay up –to-date with new technology. As new research from the UK Commission of Employment …
Here are some of the ways technology and skills are impacting on the automotive industry in the UK. They're based on new UKCES research. I've also written a blog about this story - Responding to new technologies: Collaborate to Compete? …
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