Yesterday we released a major new piece of research looking at employers perspectives on the apprenticeship system. In this blog the ISE’s Chief Research Officer, Tristram Hooley explains what is right and wrong with the current system and sets out the 10 things that employers believe that the government should do to fix apprenticeships. We would like people to support our campaign to #fixapprenticeships by sharing the report and our recommendations as widely as possible. 

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In July the ISE is running a one day workshop for careers and employability professionals entitled Making effective use of labour market data to support graduate careers and employability. Tristram Hooley, who will be leading the workshop, explains why it is so important that people working with students have the skills to read and interrogate labour market data.

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Institute of Student Employers found that employers were four times more likely to be unhappy with the way that their apprentices dressed than the way that graduates dressed. ISE researcher Tristram Hooley considers what employers can do about it.

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If everything goes according to plan, we are only a couple of months away from Brexit.Tristram Hooley, ISE’s chief research officer, explores whether it will make any difference to student recruitment using new data from ISE’s annual Pulse Survey

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