Our goal is to increase productivity and growth by bringing education and business closer together and improving the quality of our skills programme, so that we meet current and future business skills needs.
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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
Lead research organisation: University of Greenwich
The project focuses on higher vocational education and pedagogy in England, addressing effective practices and barriers in technical education and apprenticeships.
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
Lead research organisation: London School of Economics and Political Science
The project addresses the development of skills, strengths and weaknesses in the education system, and how to incentivize training, which is relevant to improving the quality of skills programs.
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
Lead research organisation: University of Warwick
The project evaluates the effectiveness of University Technical Colleges in driving growth and cultivating world-leading sectors, which is partially relevant to the question on effective practice in technical education and apprenticeships.