IER News & blogs
Philip Taylor is the guest of Hunan Women's University in Changsha
In May, Philip is working at Hunan Women's University (HWU) in Changsha, China, exploring collaborative opportunities for IER on the topic of population ageing and the workplace with HWU and other universities in Hunan Province. The stay is being funded by Hunan Province's Visiting Expert programme. China has over 250 million people aged over 60, raising questions about how it should respond.
As Biden faces questions about his age, researchers weigh in on working in your 80s
US media outlet CNBC interviewed Professor Philip Taylor about issues of ageing and work during intense scrutiny of the prospect of an octogenarian President in the White House. Find out more about what he said on the CNBC website.
Rising demand for Educational Psychology Services impacts the workforce
New research by IER and Ecorys for the Department for Education (DfE) finds that recruitment and retention issues and rising numbers of Education, Health and Care Plans (EHCPs) contribute to a vicious cycle of unmet demand for Educational Psychology Services.
The research examined various potential solutions to these issues, concluding that purely supply-side interventions designed to increase the size of the Educational Psychology workforce were unlikely to address these issues alone and that they needed to be combined with demand focused interventions to ensure the sustainability of the system.
Two years of ReWAGE - providing expertise to inform work and employment policy
Since being launched in July 2021 ReWAGE has been incredibly productive – our experts have produced 40 evidence papers and policy briefings and responded to 8 major consultations.
The group’s outputs have been covered in the national, regional and specialist media, and its co-chairs and experts have presented at national conferences and forums, and to government ministers at a wide range of meetings, including all-party parliamentary groups.
Find out more about what we’ve been up to in our news story, also featuring a large-sized version of this infographic.
Disconnection in the education-training-work-continuum
Dr Jamelia Harris published an article as part of the NORRAG Special Issue NSI 08 : The Education-Training-Work Continuums: Pathways to SocioProfessional Inclusion for Youth and Adults.
The Special Issue is part of a collaboration with the ILO and focuses on the discontinuities that currently exist between education, training and decent work, arguing that existing discontinuities between these three fields create and reinforce exclusions and inequalities for already marginalised groups.