Since April 2017, UK employers with an annual pay bill above £3 million have contributed to the Apprenticeship Levy. In this paper we use a matched firm-learner dataset to explore changes in apprenticeship and other training outcomes between 2015/16 and 2018/19, a period which spans the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy. The findings reveal that […]
London Economics were delighted to be asked by the Association of University Directors of Estates to provide a presentation at their 2021 annual conference on the economic headwind facing higher education post Covid-19. The presentation is available here.
This report presents projections of net current expenditure by local authorities on social care services in Wales for the period 2018/19 to 2022/23. The projections cover social care services for different age groups (children, working age adults and older people) and consider net expenditure (i.e. excluding income from clients and other sources) for a number […]
The Welsh Government commissioned LE Wales to assess the potential impacts of a number of policy options for the use of additional funding raised from a potential levy or alternative. The proposed options assessed by LE Wales include three options for offsetting the charges for residential and non-residential adult social care services that are paid […]
In 1999, Thomas Bell, writing for the US Center for Strategy and Technology suggested that it was “inevitable that mankind will weaponize space and equally likely that this will take place in the next thirty years”. Space is increasingly openly considered as a military domain alongside land, sea, air, and cyber, where national security and […]
RT @LE_Education: New publication today on the impact of the Apprenticeship Levy on apprenticeships and other training outcomes https://t.c…
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RT @AUDE_news: Sobering economic stuff from Gavan Conlon and Maike Halterbeck @LondonEconomics - 1 in 3 universities have less than 30 days…
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We do aim to please, but we didn't have much to work with to be honest [cc @LE_Education] https://t.co/0HIiZ6Gbmn
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RT @LE_Education: This thread is incredibly good on bringing along young people in the workplace.... https://t.co/L0q73Zdw37
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RT @LE_Education: Very pleased to be presenting to #AUDE21 today on the economic headwinds facing higher education post Covid-19... present…
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RT @LE_Education: This represents approximately 7% of the cost associated with a cohort of UG students.... its quite a big deal given the p…
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RT @LE_Education: Surprisingly, the answer is that HMT would SAVE 770m if Augar recommendations implemented. The huge shift is because the…
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