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Comparing skills policy in England and Scotland

While the policy problems may be similar, Ewart Keep finds that approaches to further and higher education are rapidly diverging ...

Micro-credentials: The new frontier of adult education and training

Micro-credentials have the potential to deepen social inequalities claims James Robson, Deputy Director of SKOPE. He identifies the ...

What accounts for changes in the chances of being NEET in the UK?

This article by Craig Holmes (University of Oxford), Emily Murphy (University of Luxembourg) and Ken Mayhew (University of Oxford) ...

Labour Market Intelligence for Green Jobs and Green Skills – FENews.co.uk 16th June 2021

This article by Ewart Keep, Emeritus Professor, SKOPE, identifies the challenges ahead to enable the provision of Green Jobs and Green ...

Storycraft: the importance of narrative and narrative skills in business – ground breaking research from SKOPE

Ground breaking research reveals how prominent business leaders in the United Kingdom see ‘narrative’ as an integral part of doing ...

Singing from the same hymn sheet: UK Policy responses to the NEET agenda

This research paper provides an overview of government policy on young people who are Not in Education, Employment or Training (NEET) ...

A New Labour project revisited: New SKOPE Research Paper published

The latest SKOPE Research Paper explores the thinking behind and the outcomes that resulted from the New Labour Government’s attempts ...

NEETs and NEET policy across the UK – conference on findings from a major research project

On the 11th of October, 2019, the SKOPE Research Centre presented key findings from a major Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)

New report published with WorldSkillsUK

Dr Susan James Relly, in partnership with WorldSkills UK , has authored an insightful report on the existing opportunities to move ...

Prof Ewart Keep appointed to the College of the Future Commission

A new independent commission has been created whose aim is to set out a “new vision” for the future of colleges across ...

ESRC Grand Union doctoral studentship in collaboration with the Edge Foundation

Apprenticeship Competencies   ESRC Grand Union doctoral studentship in collaboration with the Edge Foundation The Centre on ...

Scripting the future – exploring potential strategic leadership responses to the marketization of English FE and vocational provision

Ewart Keep, in partnership with the Association of Colleges (AoC) , has authored a timely and insightful publication on the ...

SKOPE Research Centre Newsletter Issue 3, 2022

Comparing skills policy in England and Scotland

Micro-credentials: The new frontier of adult education and training

What accounts for changes in the chances of being NEET in the UK?

SkOP ¦ Season 2 – Episode 6 ¦ A Reflection on Season 2

SkOP ¦ Season 2 – Episode 5 ¦ The Future of Technical Education

SkOP ¦ Season 2 – Episode 4 ¦ The Future of Work

Labour Market Intelligence for Green Jobs and Green Skills – FENews.co.uk 16th June 2021

SkOP ¦ Season 2 – Episode 3 ¦ Storycraft: the importance of narrative and narrative skills in business

Storycraft: the importance of narrative and narrative skills in business – ground breaking research from SKOPE

Singing from the same hymn sheet: UK Policy responses to the NEET agenda

SKOPE Research Centre Newsletter Issue 2, 2021

SkOP ¦ Season 2 – Episode 2 ¦ The employability agenda in Higher Education

SkOP ¦ Season 2 – Episode 1 ¦ The importance of Science Education and Skills

SKOPE Research Centre Newsletter, Issue 1, January 2021

Skop¦ Episode 5¦ A reflection on Season 1

SkOP ¦ Episode 4 ¦ COVID-19 and Higher Education

SkOP ¦ Episode 3 ¦ COVID-19 and the green economy

SkOP ¦ Episode 2 ¦ COVID-19 and VET

SkOP ¦ Episode 1 ¦ COVID-19 and Youth Unemployment

SkOP ¦ Bonus Episode ¦ SkOP Responds

SkOP – The Skills Observatory Podcast

A New Labour project revisited: New SKOPE Research Paper published

NEETs and NEET policy across the UK – conference on findings from a major research project

New report published with WorldSkillsUK

Prof Ewart Keep appointed to the College of the Future Commission

Prof Ewart Keep appointed to the College of the Future Commission

ESRC Grand Union doctoral studentship in collaboration with the Edge Foundation

Scripting the future – exploring potential strategic leadership responses to the marketization of English FE and vocational provision

SKOPE’s engagement with DfE

Keep appointed to the Skills Board of the Oxfordshire LEP

Prof Ewart Keep contributes to the Edge Foundation’s debate on the first principles of vocational education in England

Professor Sue Maguire’s podcast on NEET young people in the UK

Welcome to the policy loop – a new blog post by Prof Ewart Keep

ESRC Grand Union collaborative doctoral studentship with the Edge Foundation announced

New blog post by Prof Ewart Keep

Prof Ken Mayhew and Dr Craig Holmes on the economics of Higher Education

New SKOPE Research Paper published on skills utilisation

New CIPD Report Published- Where next for Apprenticeships?

Prof Ken Mayhew and Dr Craig Holmes cited in Guardian opinion piece

Limits of exploitation? Consideration of the utility of progression pathways for workforce development- A new SKOPE Issues Paper by Gary Morris, CBE

New SKOPE Issues Paper by Gary Morris, CBE is now available

New Policy report published for CIPD

A new SKOPE Research Paper has been published

New SKOPE project announced

A new SKOPE Policy Paper by Dr Paul Cappon is now available

Craig Holmes has written an article for The Converstation titled: Are non-graduate jobs ‘upgrading’ to give the graduates who do them more autonomy?

SKOPE Director Prof Ewart Keep has produced a report for Gatsby on the future development of apprenticeship trailblazers.

CIPD has published a report by Prof Ken Mayhew and Dr Craig Holmes on the over-qualification and skills mismatch in the graduate labour market

Prof Ewart Keep shares his expertise on skills on the New Workplace series by BBC Radio 4

A new SKOPE Research Paper has been published

Prof Ewart Keeps contribution to a BBC article on Apprentices: How easy is it to create three million more?

SKOPE Associate Craig Holmes spoke at the Institute of Economic Analysis of Decision-making at The University of Sheffield

Prof Ewart Keep views on post 19 vocational education in the newest UKCES blog

Vocational Excellence project reports on WorldSkills competitors, FE college participation and training managers are now available

The Economist has published a letter from SKOPE Associates Matthew Dixon and Craig Holmes on skills shortages in the engineering sector

SKOPE funded research on NHS by Scott Taylor

Prof Ken Mayhew has been quoted by Financial Times

Prof Ewart Keep is acting as one of the assessors for the Royal Anniversary Trust’s Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education.

SKOPE staff have become members of review bodies in the UK and worldwide

SKOPE Staff have presented papers at various events across the world

A new Research Paper by SKOPE Associate Matthew Dixon is now available

SKOPE Associate Craig Holmes spoke at a Resolution Foundation Event

SKOPE Associate James Malcomsons’ paper published in Research in Economics journal

Prof. Ewart Keep attended an event run by Skills Development Scotland (SDS) in Glasgow on the 12th March

SKOPE Forum presentation

SKOPE new working paper

Craig Holmes, SKOPE Associate has been quoted in Financial Times

A new paper by James Malcomson

New Issues Paper

Turning over the ‘hourglass’ labour market argument

ESRC Festival of Social Science Seminar – The Future of Higher Education

WORK ON SKILLS UTILISATION

SKOPE WORK WITH THE ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES

Congratulations

SKOPE’s Management Team

ECER Annual Conference

Final IFL Session

New Working Paper

CIPD Report

SKOPE’s contribution to the ESRC’s Future of UK and Scotland programme

New Contract with the Royal Court of Oman

New Stimulus paper on credit accumulation and transfer

ESRC Festival of Social Science presentations

SKOPE Employers’ Forum

National Institute of Economic and Social Research seminar

SKOPE Working Paper No117

Public Policy Forum presentation

Our team

Dr James Robson

Dr James Robson

Job title - Director

Dr Xin Xu

Dr Xin Xu

Job title - Deputy Director and Departmental Lecturer in Higher/Tertiary Education

Professor Ewart Keep

Professor Ewart Keep

Job title - Emeritus Professor

Éireann Attridge

Éireann Attridge

Job title - Research Assistant