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New Issues Paper

DR Craig Holmes of SKOPE and University of Oxford has written a new SKOPE Issues Paper, now available from our Publications section.

Turning over the ‘hourglass’ labour market argument

SKOPE Associate Craig Holmes has written a short article for Policy Network which was published online on 27th November 2014. It is on ...

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

The presentations from the ESRC Festival of Social Science Seminar, The Future of Higher Education, can now be found on the Events page.

WORK ON SKILLS UTILISATION

Ewart Keep has been working with the Welsh Government and with Skills Development Scotland (SDS) to explore how best to take forward ...

SKOPE WORK WITH THE ASSOCIATION OF COLLEGES

Ewart Keep has been working with the Association of Colleges (the body that represents further education and VI form colleges in ...

Congratulations

A paper submitted by Susan James, Chris Warhurst, Gerbrand Tholen and Johanna Commander, What we know and what we need to know about ...

SKOPE’s Management Team

Ken Mayhew will shortly be stepping down as Director of SKOPE, on his retirement from his posts at Pembroke College and the Department ...

ECER Annual Conference

Dr. Maia Chankseliani presented a paper (co-authored by Dr. Susan James) at the European Conference on Educational Research The Past, ...

Final IFL Session

SKOPE held a final session of their latest Practitioner Research course for members of the Institute for Learning. A selection of ...

New Working Paper

A new Working paper by Dr Andrea Laczik is now available in the Publications page.

CIPD Report

Ken Mayhew and Ewart Keep have produced a publication, on industrial strategy and the future of skills policy, for the Chartered ...

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

SKOPE and the Scottish Centre for Employment Research (SCER) at Strathclyde University have published a report on current debates in ...

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