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Dr Clare Lyonette from the Institute for Employment Research has been elected on to the editorial board for the Work, Employment and Society Journal from January 2011 for 3 years. 

The seminar series entitled Re-framing service delivery, professional practices and professional identities in UK careers work is being funded by the ESRC and being organised by Professor Jenny Bimrose and Dr Sally-Anne Barnes from the Institute for Employment Research in partnership with Professors Laurie Cohen and John Arnold from Loughborough University.  The aim of the series is to contribute to and integrate knowledge in relation to three major policy agendas that all have careers guidance as a key strand: the Europe-wide lifelong learning agenda; social equity agenda; and the up-skilling agenda. The series will comprise 6 one-day seminars; the first of which was held at the University of East London on 1 December.  It was successful in attracting key stakeholders in the field of careers guidance.  More information on the is available.

At the Labour Force Survey user meeting organised by the UK Economic and Social Data Service and held at the Royal Statistical Society in London at the start of December, Bernard Casey and Yuxin Li gave a presentation on working beyond retirement age.  They concentrated on methodological issues rather than on results, and tried to show what was possible from the Labour Force Survey and what was not.  Details of the event can be found at on the Economic and Social Data Service website. Bernard Casey and Yuxin Li’s presentation entitled  is available to download.

Details of findings from the BIMCO/ISF Manpower 2010 Update have been presented at a meeting of the International Maritime Organisation Maritime Safety Committee in London (30 November).  The findings are based on data provided by governments, shipping companies and crewing experts, and also incorporate the views and perceptions of senior executives in shipping companies and maritime administrations. The statistical analysis was carried out, as in previous studies, by the 果冻传媒 Institute for Employment Research in the UK and this year, for the first time, from Dalian Maritime University in China which has helped obtain input from Asian countries where it had previously been difficult to obtain definitive data.

This Bulletin presents findings from the recent study undertaken by the 果冻传媒 Institute for Employment Research (IER) for the former Learning and Skills Council which assessed how apprenticeship completion rates can be improved in England. It forms part of a wider programme of work the Institute has undertaken, since the mid 1970s, on apprenticeships. The full report on which this bulletin is based – Maximising Apprenticeship Completion Rates by Terence Hogarth, Lynn Gambin, Chris Hasluck, Maria de Hoyos, and David Owen can be downloaded .