Research Online

Recent headline documents

• Youth unemployment
  Presents an overview of Scottish policies and programmes aimed at increasing employment among young people.
• Big challenges bring rewards: the big picture narrative
  Argues that the UK needs to improve the skills of its workforce through greater employer investment in training, in order to drive economic and business growth.
• Work experience: impact and delivery, insights and evidence
  Considers how work experience for school pupils could be better aligned with employers' needs and highlights its positive impact on attainment and employability.
• The economic and social cost of illiteracy
  Estimates the economic cost of illiteracy in the UK and considers its impact on earnings, employability and lost productivity and wealth.
• The fit between graduate labour market supply and demand
  Compares final year undergraduate degree students' perceptions of the skills they with those that employers seek.