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16 February 2010

ESRC SKOPE Press Release: Skills Policy approaching a turning point?

The following press notice is issued by the Economic and Social Research Council's Research Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance based at Oxford and Cardiff Universities. Please address any enquiries to the contact tel nos/addresses at the end of the notice. Info on SKOPE can be seen on the organisation's web site: www.skope.ox.ac.uk.

Skills policy approaching a turning point?

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10 February 2010

New Year Message 2010

Good, if someway belated, wishes for 2010. For those who missed them, this letter runs over some of the highlights of 2009 and, most importantly, provides dates for your diary in 2010. We have had to change the dates of the first two meetings so please make sure those you have are correct: they are not the dates in the Newsletter! Please see below. The lateness of this letter has to do with the drawn out arrangements for the Public Policy Forum meeting on 25 March; we are still trying to arrange for a participant from the government.

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04 February 2010

Guardian Article

Ewart Keep was extensively cited in a recent Guardian article on job prospects on young generation by Warwick Mansell.

"Professor Ewart Keep, of Cardiff University, is scathing about what he sees as a misuse of statistics to promote a vision of a high-skills future, which flies in the face of a different reality: many employers remain happy to recruit less skilled workers, so long as they are cheap."

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04 February 2010

A New Member of Advisory Committee

SKOPE is happy to announce a new member of the Advisory Committee, Mr Graham Schuhmacher.

Graham Schuhmacher is Head of Learning and Development Operations & Services at Rolls-Royce plc. Rolls-Royce, is a global business, providing and supplying integrated power systems for use on land, at sea and in the air.

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27 January 2010

Geoff Hayward has been appointed to two Visiting Professorships

Geoff Hayward, Associate Director of SKOPE based at Oxford University, has been appointed to two Visiting Professorships. The first, in the Department of Sociology at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, involves working with sociologists and economists on skills and the labour market as part of the ongoing work of the GRET research group in collaboration with Professor Jordi Planas.

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05 January 2010

A New Member of Advisory Committee

SKOPE is happy to announce a new member of the Advisory Committee, Mr John Earls.

John Earls is Research Section Head at Unite, the UK’s largest trade union with 2 million members in the private and public sectors. John was previously Joint Head of Research at UNIFI, the specialist finance sector trade union.

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