Work, Learning and Skills
Providing valuable evidence on employment and skills issues
Employment growth and skills development are key to the continued success of the UK economy in the 21st century. Our natural resource is our people - and their potential is both untapped and vast. Developing skills will unlock that potential. The prize for our country will be enormous: higher productivity, the creation of wealth and social justice.
Ipsos MORI has a well-established reputation for conducting high quality research in this area, working with a wide range of organisations including central government departments and sector skills agencies.
Informing policy development
Our research has played a key role in informing policy development and provides valuable evidence on issues relating to employment and skills, work incentives and the role of government support in removing barriers to work, learning and training.
We have a wealth of experience in conducting both qualitative and quantitative research projects in this area, and work regularly in partnership with academics and consultants on large-scale policy evaluations for clients such as the Learning and Skills Council (LSC), HM Treasury and HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC), the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (DIUS). Recent projects include:
- National Learner Satisfaction Survey 2007
- The status and reputation of the further education system
- Evaluation of Train to Gain - employees
- Two pilot studies to inform the responsiveness of the LSC's Framework for Excellence
- Evaluation of Saving Gateway
- Evaluation of the Skills for Business Network
- Evaluation of Learner Account Trials
- Expanding the Apprenticeship Programme
- Demand for, and perceptions of, Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG)
- Motivations for saving in ISAs
- The education, information and support needs of those aged 50 - 69
- The relationships between HMRC, the voluntary and community sector and its customers.
- Survey of student attitudes to taxation and compliance
- The future challenges facing the DWP
- Public attitudes to Personal Accounts
- Public attitudes to the Combined Pension Forecast.