Encouragement for apprentices is sure to pay skills dividends
As the Government strives to improve the harmony between the supply and demand in the market for skills, successful work-based schemes like apprenticeships offer a great way of integrating employers into the process of shaping skills priorities.
Manchester United?
Manchester City Council and the Labour Party have been at pains to emphasise what they believe to be a mutual benefit of the conference coming to the city. But a poll in the Manchester Evening News suggests that Mancunians don't share the same view. This in itself demonstrates that there is a disconnect between politicians and the public.
North or South?
So we're told that London is the future. Are established cities with thriving economies destined to be subsumed as satellite or dormitory towns as London's economic dominance continues unabated? Not likely.
Bin the Barnett formula
New research by ippr north on the Barnett formula reveals the true extent of the funding disparities between the constituent nations of the UK.
Important six months for farming
We have just entered what may be one of the most important six months for some time to come. Yesterday, France took over the Presidency of the European Union, and will lead discussions until the end of 2008.
Food needs to become a greater policy priority
Food is a major determinant of the UK’s social, economic and environmental wellbeing and that greater priority and coordination is needed on food rather than applying a static food policy.
Fortress Britain: Is Immigration Working?
Professor Andrew Geddes from Sheffield University will argue that immigration frenzies in the media and politics are largely missing the point. December 1.
Your Shout
The views of young people
Their views were captured at an ippr north event which enabled young people to discuss the issues affecting their lives and their aspirations.
Your Call: Youth Café Politique
Young people voted on issues which concern them most, such as preventing gun and knife crime, tackling child poverty, the employment and economy, debt and climate change.
Tax reform to help against poverty
Article by Michael Johnson
Beneath the headlines of the PBR lays a subtle tax reform that could pave the way for government to tackle poverty more effectively in the future.
Communications / Membership
Structural Economic Change and the European Union
Winners, losers and public policy options
This report is about the economic effects of ‘globalisation’ in the European Union, and how the European Commission and countries in the EU should respond to it.
Fair Shares?
The politics of public expenditure
The Barnett formula is now the subject of widespread political debate across the four nations of the UK.