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Family Matters: how early disadvantage impacts employment outcomes of young people

Dr Stefan Speckesser, Dr Matthew Bursnall and Jamie Moore share the findings of a new report. A new NIESR and Impetus report on young people Not In Education, Employment and Training (NEET) reveals that young people wit...Read more...

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Apprenticeships are changing: The Levy a year in

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Investment in adult skills in decreasing in the UK ? here?s why we should be worried

NIESR's Matt Bursnall and Stefan Speckesser ask are we right to be concerned about access to skills in the UK? Recently, the FT showed that contrary to popular belief the most troubling issue for SMEs in Europe is not ac...Read more...

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Three million new apprenticeships ? but how many of these are completed and achieved?

Matt Bursnall and Stefan Speckesser from CVER and the National Institute of Economic and Social Research ask what do we currently know about apprenticeship achievement? The governmenta??s target to create three million ...Read more...

CVER Briefing Note

An analysis of the duration and achievement of apprenticeships in England

For the cohort of all 516,880 intermediate and advanced apprenticeships starting in England in 2011/12, we find that one third were withdrawn and a further 10 per cent were not completed within 36 months. We find that c...Read more...