Research
The City & Guilds Centre for Skills
Development (CSD) commissions and conducts a variety of research
projects. The CSD uses research and ongoing consultation to improve
the design, delivery and recognition of vocational education and
training. Below is a list of research currently available, which we
will continue to add to and develop.
Smoothing the path: Advice about
learning and work for disadvantaged adults
(England)
July 2009
This Centre for Skills Development and CfBT
Education Trust joint research project explored effective
and innovative careers guidance provision in relation to
adults disadvantaged in the English labour market.
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Who Trains? A Picture
of Companies’ Training Practices Across the UK
April 2009
This new report examines the types of
companies which are more likely to engage in training, together
with the kind of workers who are more likely to be given training
across the UK.
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CSD
Report: Practitioners' Voices: Understanding their role within a
demand-led system
February 2009
CSD invited practitioners from three industrial sectors to compare
and contrast how they felt good practice can inform and influence
policy decisions in further education.
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report
National
Skills Forum Report:Closing the Skills
Gap
February 2009
This report, written by the National Skills Forum and sponsored by
CSD, examines the UK’s gender skills gap and makes recommendations
for closing it, including the employment of a full-time careers
adviser for every school and improved maternity provision.
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report
Skills Development: Attitudes &
Perceptions
March 2008
An international research project conducted
by the CSD, examining the current issues faced by those with a
stake in skills training around the world.
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Country
Reports
Summary reports on the economic, social and political backgrounds
of the nine countries of focus from the CSD’s international
research project Skills Development: Attitudes &
Perceptions.
View country reports
Briefing
Notes
Regular briefings on some of the key topics affecting vocational
education and training globally.
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Statistics
Statistical data with an impact on vocational education and
training.
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Working Papers
This series of working papers shares the preliminary results of the
ongoing research undertaken by the Centre for Skills
Development.
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