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What are the determinants of demand and quality for technical education, apprenticeships and adult training? How do they vary (e.g. geographically, demographically) and how it can they be influenced?

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This question was published as part of the set of ARIs in this document:

Df E Areas of Research Interest 2024

Related UKRI funded projects

  • Supporting the Industrial Strategy

    1) Developing Skills: Strengths and Weaknesses in the System, and What can be Done. The new Industrial Strategy must consider how the education system can create the general and specific skills needed by businesses toda...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project addresses the determinants of demand and quality for technical education and apprenticeships, providing insights on how they can be influenced.

  • Developing talent through apprenticeships

    Investing in apprenticeships is an excellent way for the UK economy to recover from the effects of COVID-19\. Apprentices each generate an average **£34,000 of economic benefit each year** in the UK and Government ...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

    Why might this be relevant?

    Partially relevant as it focuses on apprenticeships but does not cover technical education or adult training.

  • HIVE-PED: Higher Vocational Education and Pedagogy in England

    The HIVE-PED Research Seminar Series: Higher Vocational Education and Pedagogy in England The proposed HIVE-PED research seminars series will map out the research territory, report research findings, facilitate debate,...

    Funded by: ESRC

    Why might this be relevant?

    The project discusses higher vocational education and pedagogy, which is related to technical education and apprenticeships, partially addressing the question.

  • Ethos SkillsPlanner

    Matching the skills output of educational establishments with the needs of industry, particularly in a rapidly changing economy, is problematic. The inability to integrate the various bespoke datasets has meant the holis...

    Funded by: Innovate UK

  • Skills2Capabilities

    The Skills2Capability project is about understanding how skill systems across Europe can reduce the level of skills mismatch in their labour markets. It is recognised that future labour markets will be more mobile with m...

    Funded by: Horizon Europe Guarantee

  • SD - APT: Scalable Delivery of Applied PEMD Training

    SD-APT brings together diverse organisations with established experience in innovation within the delivery of skills and training and expertise in PEMD to create delivery programs designed to meet the PEMD skills gap cha...

    Funded by: ISCF

  • Institute of Electrification and Sustainable Advanced Manufacturing (IESAM) -Building Talent for Growth of North East PEMD Supply Chain

    Participation levels in advanced vocational Science, TEchnology and Mathematics (STEM) education and training are historically low in the North East of England. Fewer young people attain Level 3 vocational or academic qu...

    Funded by: ISCF

  • University Technical Colleges - driving growth across the whole country and cultivating world-leading sectors?

    Evaluating school effectiveness is challenging, because parents can choose where to send their children to school. This causes a problem for researchers, because those choices are unlikely to be random. This means it is ...

    Funded by: ESRC

  • Unpacking returns to vocational education in England: the role of skills, labour market sorting and mobility

    In the UK, widespread participation in postsecondary education goes hand in hand with a relatively high number of students leaving education prematurely, ill-equipped for the labour market. This growing polarization has ...

    Funded by: ESRC

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