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Good quality and extensive training opportunities are essential for increasing the skills of the workforce. This report tracks what has been happening in Britain’s workplaces in recent years.

Employees’ ability to influence decisions at work is one of the most important factors affecting their motivation and psychological well-being, and is also associated with good physical health. This report examines the trends in different types of employee control in British workplaces, and presents a mixed picture.

There has been a longstanding interest in the impacts of socio-spatial variations in accessibility to public and private services in both urban and rural contexts. Previous studies have found that rural communities are often disproportionately impacted in accessibility terms by changes in service configuration. The aim of this study is to examine such claims in…

The contemporary wave of neoliberal globalization has given rise to a new class of the global super-rich, whose wealth is based on a global web of financial interests, and whose lives are lived transnationally between various homes, offices and retreats (see Hay and Muller 2012). The geographies of this transnational elite have been conventionally closely…

Mae’r gwerthusiad yn defnyddio methodoleg dulliau cymysg, gan gynnwys elfen feintiol wedi’i seilio ar setiau data presennol. Mae’r gwerthusiad yn adrodd am ddau ganfyddiad allweddol ond cydgysylltiedig. Y cyntaf yw bod tystiolaeth gref i awgrymu bod CBC yn arbennig o werthfawr o ran helpu myfyrwyr i gael eu derbyn i addysg uwch. Mae’n ymddangos bod…

Polisi blaenllaw Llywodraeth Cymru ar addysg y blynyddoedd cynnar (ar gyfer plant rhwng 3 a 7 oed) yng Nghymru yw’r Cyfnod Sylfaen. Trwy nodi gwyriad radical oddi wrth y dull mwy ffurfiol, yn seiliedig ar gymhwysedd oedd yn gysylltiedig â Chwricwlwm Cenedlaethol blaenorol Cyfnod Allweddol 1, mae’n eirioli dull datblygiadol, arbrofol, yn seiliedig ar chwarae…

The aim of the 2011 ESF Leavers Survey is to assist in assessing the effectiveness of labour market interventions delivered under ESF. Telephone interviews were conducted with over six thousand people who had left an ESF project delivered under Priorities 2 and 3 of the Convergence Programme and Priorities 1 and 2 of the Competitiveness…

The importance of the early years is well understood within the Welsh Government. Since2003 work has been underway to develop effective interventions in this area, such as the Flying Start programme. However, the question of what works best and is most effective remains important. Events such as this that bring colleagues from the policy, academic…

If the race is already halfway run even before children begin school,then we clearly need to examine what happens in the earliest years (Esping-Anderson 2004).

In recent years, there has been growing recognition of a need for a general, non-language-specific assessment tool that could be used to evaluate general speech and language abilities in children, especially to assist in identifying atypical development in bilingual children who speak a language unfamiliar to the assessor. It has been suggested that a non-word…