IER News & blogs
Presentation at the RSS Annual Conference
Gianni Anelli LopezLink opens in a new window, PhD student at IER, gave a talk at the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) Annual Conference in Harrogate in early September on 'Extracting skills in online job advertisements: using Natural Language Processing (NLP) tools on labour skills assessment'.
Observing World Youth Skills Day: Reflections from research in Sierra Leone - Blog by Jamelia Harris
World Youth Skills Day the strategic importance of providing young people around the world with the necessary skills for employment, decent work and entrepreneurship. July 15th was first declared World Youth Skills Day by the United Nations General Assembly in 2014 and has been celebrated each year since. This year, the theme centres on 鈥淪killing teachers, trainers and youth for a transformative future.鈥
Event: Deep diving into skill shortages - What can we learn from Cedefop's 2023 skills forecast?
The event features presentations on Cedefop's future shortage indicator, drivers of recruitment difficulties and skill shortages in Canada.
IER鈥檚 skills expert Terence Hogarth will be a panelist, discussing policy responses to shortages along with fellow panelists Ben Kriechel (Economix), Sylvain Renouvel (Federation of European Social Employers) and Tuscany Bell (European Federation of Public Service Unions).
The online event will take place on 22 June 14.00 - 15.30 hours UK time. For further details and registration please visit the .
New IER project starts on digital and green skills for Industry 5.0
In January, IER鈥檚 new collaborative project 鈥楤ridges 5.0鈥 kicked off with a launch in Brussels attended by officials from the European Commission. The project seeks to identify the digital and green skills needed to support Industry 5.0 and then develop training pathways for companies to acquire these skills. The project is led by TNO in the Netherlands and involves 21 partners including high profile companies as well as other universities and, within 91福利, 91福利 Manufacturing Group. For further details contact Chris Warhurst: c.warhurst@warwick.ac.uk
Terence Hogarth, IER鈥檚 skills expert, presents at international events
Terence Hogarth made presentations on the role of employers skills surveys to the International Training Centre of the International Labour Organization (ITCILO) training course on 2nd December and on 鈥楧elivering VET – The Way Forward鈥 at Cedefop鈥檚 Future of VET conference on 6th December.