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Specialist Employment Adviser (SEA) Evaluation
The SEA role was piloted within Job Centre Plus (JCP) over two years in seven areas where ethnic minority unemployment is significantly higher than the national average. The initiative was intended to increase ethnic minority employment through the building of strategic and innovative relationships between local employers and the JCP.
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Computer Games In Schools
An Ipsos survey investigating students' attitudes to mainstream computer games has revealed that three in five 11-16 year-olds would like to use computer games to learn in school. The research, which surveyed over 2,300 11-16 year-old students in England and Wales, explores students' opinion and use of games and the findings could help to determine how computer games may be integrated into the school curriculum.
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Leading the Pack: Frontiers of Performance in Transport
This report examines the data collected in the 2003/4 Best Value Performance Indicator surveys (BVPIs) for the impact of place on perceptions of transport services, drawing on 2001 Census and other secondary sources to provide context.
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The UNITE Student Experience Report
The Student Experience Report 2006 is the most comprehensive in-depth study of the attitudes, concerns and aspirations of today's full-time undergraduate and postgraduate students in the UK.
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Who Do You Believe? Trust In Government Information
A new report from MORI shows it is wrong to talk about a new crisis of trust in government and politicians are as distrusted as they always have been. However, "Who do you believe? Trust in government information" does reveal a serious decline in certain aspects of trust.
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Lib-Dem MPs' On The Skills Gap
Just under half of Liberal Democrats believe limited skills in the UK workforce are constraining employers from producing more complex products or better services, according to new research from the MORI Reputation Centre. The same proportion disagrees.
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Pressure On British Businesses To Off-Shore Is Great And Becoming Greater
Three in ten (30%) of the CBI member organisations surveyed have off-shored activities; even more feel that the pressures to do so are great (45%), and becoming greater (51%). With the "push" factors becoming more prominent, there are also a number of "pull" factors encouraging organisations to off-shore: almost all of those considering or currently off-shoring feel the potential for off-shoring has increased with improvements in technology (91%).
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A Question of Identity?
Eight in 10 (80%) of the adult British population say they are in favour of ID cards, and slightly more (83%) say they would be happy to carry the card at all times — according to a MORI survey carried out for specialist IT consultancy Detica [note 1].
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British 'Favour ID Cards'
Eight in 10 British people (80%) are in favour of a national identity card (ID) scheme, according to new research by MORI. The research, commissioned by Detica, a specialist IT consultancy, also show:
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Changing Values (2): Work & Leisure
Some further comparisons of British attitudes half-a-century ago, around the time of the coronation, with the way we think today, this time concentrating on work and leisure. (As before, for the 1950s we are heavily reliant on surveys from Gallup, the only pollster then publishing regular public opinion surveys, the findings of which survive in book form - George H Gallup, The Gallup International Public Opinion Polls: Great Britain 1937-1975, New York: Random House, 1976, and Anthony King and Robert Wybrow, British Political Opinion 1937-2000: The Gallup Polls, London: Politico's, 2001.)