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Richard Layard writing in the Financial Times, says that a clear commitment to train young people for work will help the government's economic agenda. ... Read more...
21 March 2025
A well-trained workforce is essential to the economy, but a shortage of alternatives to university means Britain's young people are falling behind. Lord Richard Layard talks about a fundamental injustice in Britain's edu... Read more...
20 August 2024
A recent study set out to explore how effective apprenticeships were at supporting students as they both learn new skills and make their way into the workplace. The researchers assess young people who completed their GCS... Read more...
12 July 2019
Dr Chiara Cavaglia Make Devolution is also affecting "education and skills", e.g. with the Adult Education Budget being managed locally form 2019/20. With this in mind, the All Party Parliamentary Group on Apprenticeshi... Read more...
10 July 2019
Snippet: ...'s virtually impossible However good the advice they get is are trying to understand the make your way through that is extremely hard and Professor Sandra McNally runs the centre for vocational education rese... Read more...
08 July 2019
According to LSE research (from the Centre for Vocational Educational Research) apprentices are earning 20% more than the people who take the full-time college route, Lord Layard said in his contribution to the debate ar... Read more...
04 July 2019
In this latest blog post, Steven McIntosh of University of Sheffield discusses CVER contributions to the recent Augar Review of Post-18 Education, and the findings that came out of that research. Individual Consequences... Read more...
25 June 2019
If you are in any doubt about the influence that the person leading a college has on its performance, look no further than a 2017 research paper by Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela, Camille Terrier and Clementine Van Effenterre (... Read more...
14 December 2018
Men are more likely to earn more after starting an apprenticeship than women, new research by the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) shows. The research, published by academics at th... Read more...
07 September 2018
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Research finds that there's a strong case for providing apprenticeship to young people, write Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally and Guglielmo Ventura. Is there an earnings differential for starting an ... Read more...
20 March 2018
New research reports from the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the London School of Economics are highlighted in the Spring 2018 CentrePiece magazine. Among the findings: APPRENTICESH... Read more...
01 March 2018
Ahead of National Apprenticeship Week, members of the House of Lords demanded an explanation for the alarming drop in apprenticeship starts following the introduction of the levy. Members of the House of Lords... Read more...
Dr Hilary Steedman, senior research fellow at the Centre for Economic Performance, described the fall in starts as “worrying, but not surprising”, and called on the government to abandon its target... Read more...
28 February 2018
CVER's Hilary Steedman and colleagues have been looking at training in one area of the automotive sector. Car Service is central to the supply chain of the wider automotive sector, identified as a le... Read more...
05 December 2017
A major research study in October warned Scotland would suffer a “devastating” Brexit bombshell with its towns and cities losing nearly £30 billion as a result of the UK leaving the EU withou... Read more...
01 December 2017
Disadvantaged young people are substantially less likely than their better-off peers to start the best apprenticeships, according to new research published by the Sutton Trust. Just seven per cent of you... Read more...
Coverage of apprenticeships research. Related publications "Apprenticeships for Young People in England: Is there a Payoff?" by Chiara Cavaglia, Sandra McNally, and Guglielmo Ventura, ... Read more...
Finally, he claimed the promotion of prevention and stressed, as pointed out by a report of the London School of Economics that every euro of investment in preventing mental health reverts to 18 euros in socie... Read more...
30 November 2017
Responding to the Sutton Trust's 'Better Apprenticeships' report, UCU general secretary, Sally Hunt, said: 'It's increasingly clear that the government's pursuit of its three milli... Read more...
Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds are less likely to start the best apprenticeships than their well-off peers, a new report has found. Related publications "Apprenticeships for Young Peopl... Read more...
As our latest research shows, disadvantaged young people are less likely to enter the best apprenticeships than their better-off peers. We’ve also found concerning gender gaps, with female apprentices co... Read more...
Better Apprenticeships draws on research by teams from the UCL Institute of Education and the Centre for Vocational Education Research at LSE to analyse the current state of play for apprenticeships in En... Read more...
With the proposed increase in the number of apprenticeships, CVER's Chiara Cavaglia, with Sandra McNally and Guglilmo Ventura, discuss the potential payoffs of starting an apprenticeship. Related public... Read more...
....And then, among apprenticeships for young people, 60 per cent of places are at intermediate level. New analysis by Sandra McNally for today’s report, of the experience of those aged 16 in 2003 who su... Read more...
"Disadvantaged youngsters are less likely than their better-off peers to start the best apprenticeships, a new study reveals. Research published by the Sutton Trust showed that seven per cent of yo... Read more...
"Two thirds of apprenticeships are merely “converting” existing employees and could be certifying existing skills, rather than focusing on expanding expertise, a new report has warned. Rese... Read more...
The segmentation of apprenticeship by level puts an artificial break on progression, according to a new report commissioned by the Sutton Trust. The report, entitled Better Apprenticeships – Acces... Read more...
....It is also crucial that the issue of access is tackled. As our latest research shows, disadvantaged young people are less likely to enter the best apprenticeships than their better-off peers. We’ve a... Read more...
20 November 2017
Editorial The reforms are good ones, but the reformers have their priorities wrong. For too long ministers have focused on the country’s highest-achieving pupils. They should now pay attention to ever... Read more...
24 August 2017
According to Sandra McNally, professor of economics at Surrey University, the Conservatives’ figures are misleading. This is because the “per pupil figure” was frozen from 2010 to 2011 and ag... Read more...
27 May 2017
Article by Sandra McNally It is well known and acknowledged in the government’s Industrial Strategy that Britain has a skills problem: ‘We have a shortage of technical-level skills and rank 16th... Read more...
17 May 2017
Claudia Hupkau, Sandra McNally, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela and Guglielmo Ventura DOI: 10.1177/002795011724000113 Related publications Post-Compulsory Education in England: Choices and Implications Claudi... Read more...
12 May 2017
Dr Hilary Steedman discusses IFS report criticising huge investment into apprenticeships. 0725 Is the way in which the Government will fund new apprenticeships a monumental waste of money? Dr Hilary S... Read more...
31 January 2017
Dr Hilary Steedman, senior research fellow at The London School of Economics, speaking on the BBC’s Today programme, said: “I think the IFS has really overstated their case here. We have a really s... Read more...
There have been major changes to Ireland's apprenticeship system over the past few years, and now the overall number of apprentices is expected to increase to about 10,700. And, although Ireland's apprenticeship system i... Read more...
13 September 2016
Article by John Denham For the past 20 years and longer, Ministers of all parties have wanted to see more employers support employees and apprentices to gain higher levels skills and higher education. With strong bi-par... Read more...
03 August 2016
Article by CVER Director, Sandra McNally, on some of the recommendations of the recent Sainsbury Report The incoming British prime minister Theresa May has outlined a vision of a country that ''works not for the privile... Read more...
15 July 2016
A new breed of apprenticeship is offering employers a way to accelerate and keep top talent Petra Wilton, CMI's director of strategy and external affairs, says the degree apprenticeships will help to meet expected deman... Read more...
05 July 2016
A generation of young, 'middle achievers' are being left behind by the Government because they do not go to university, a damning report has claimed. Most youngsters - 53% - do not go on to university or do A levels, yet... Read more...
08 April 2016
53% of young people do not follow the 'traditional' academic route into work. This majority of young people are significantly overlooked in their transition for work by the education system and the focus on apprenticeshi... Read more...
THE low productivity of British workers has several possible culprits. Inefficient family-run companies are sometimes blamed, as are poor workforce skills. But whereas these problems are well documented, another factor i... Read more...
28 November 2015
Four ideas to improve Britain's bad record on big building projects UK government's plans for increased infrastructure spending and Centre for Economic Performance's recommendations. The article was published online by... Read more...
08 October 2015
The Centre for Vocational Education Research's Claudia Hupkau looks at what can be learnt from past apprentices growth for the government's 3 million apprenticeship target. With GCSE results recently out, many students ... Read more...
01 September 2015
In any recession, young people tend to suffer first. Moreover, unemployment among 16-24-year-olds was edging up even before the financial crisis. Youngsters have since faced a ''double whammy'' of scarcity of work and fa... Read more...
20 August 2015
Article by Sandra McNally From this September, all pupils at secondary school will have to study English, a language, maths, science and history or geography at GCSE. This is the English Baccalaureate, or Ebacc, which e... Read more...
23 June 2015
The new aims and role of the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) has become clearer since a consultation event this month, as Andrew Morris explains. The new Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER), ... Read more...
22 June 2015
Article by Claudia Hupkau The Conversation's Manifesto Check deploys academic expertise to scrutinise the parties' plans. The Liberal Democrats have announced their vision for skills policy over the next parliament in ... Read more...
15 April 2015
Article by Hilary Steedman Welcome to The Conversation's Manifesto Check, where academics from across the UK subject each party's manifesto to unbiased, expert scrutiny. The Conservative manifesto skates over some unco... Read more...
Article by Hilary Steedman and Claudia Hupkau Hilary Steedman, London School of Economics and Political Science Labour's election manifesto promises four initiatives in the area of skills and apprenticeships; the Compu... Read more...
13 April 2015
The Department of Education is understood to have established the review group because it was concerned about a significant collapse in employer demand for apprentices, particularly in construction-related trades. Statis... Read more...
03 November 2013
Hilary Steedman, a Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance at the London School of Economics talks about how apprenticeships can help small and medium-sized enterprises (SME) improve their productivity,... Read more...
24 October 2013
...la relacion entre empresario y aprendiz", apunta Hilary Steedman, investigadora de la London School of Economics. En el mejor de los supuestos, la formacion dual es una experiencia adaptable a las realidades de o... Read more...
01 May 2013
In her article, Hilary Steedman writes: As in every downturn, youth unemployment is a serious concern. This column looks at apprenticeship policy in England. It argues that England is a long way off the apprentice numbe... Read more...
06 October 2012
Letter by Ruth Stivey Miliband's suggestion of getting employers to 'own' the system by delegating budgets to them is a radical and attractive idea since lack of employer interest in apprenticeships is a major problem. ... Read more...
05 October 2012
Youngsters in Britain are becoming increasingly desperate, as youth unemployment has soared to 22.3 per cent. Increases in apprenticeships are proposed as one possible solution. LSE economist, Hilary Steedman comments. ... Read more...
15 February 2012
A survey by the British Chambers of Commerce reveals that the majority of firms eager to create new jobs are "frustrated" by skills gaps and onerous regulation. A separate study by the LSE has warned that apprenticeship... Read more...
14 December 2011
Forward by Sir Roy Gardner (Chairman, Compass Group plc; Chairman, Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network) August 2010: I am pleased to commend this report, commissioned by the Apprenticeship Ambassadors Network, of which... Read more...
06 September 2010