SKOPE

Applications are being sought for a prestigious (1+3 or +3) full time PhD Studentship, to be based in theCardiff School of Social Sciences at Cardiff University, to begin in October 2012.This studentship will be linked to the wider work of the ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge &Organisational Performance (SKOPE) on low paid employment and skills, will explore managerialperceptions of workers’ need for literacy and numeracy skills, and compare and contrast this withobservation of actual skill usage in a range of workplace settings.

Stay, Leave or Return? Understanding Welsh Graduate Mobility by Gillian Bristow (SKOPE), Madeleine Pill (SKOPE) and Rhys Davies (WISERD) at Cardiff University and Stephen Drinkwater (WISERD) at Swansea University is now available.

Ken Mayhew and Susan James will speak at the World Skills Olympic on Friday 7 October. They will present research for Move on Modelling Vocational Excellence.

In collaboration with RAND Europe, SKOPE was successful in the recent Cedefop (European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training) tender with the title ‘Attractiveness of European initial vocational education and training: what really matters’. Using a multi-method approach, the 12 months project looks at concepts of attractiveness in vocational education and training and the role these concepts play in a wider range of European Union Member States.