Added 'Understanding the further education market'.
Added 13 new research publications.
Added report on the UK aerospace maintenance, repair, overhaul and logistics industry.
Added reports on the Advanced Propulsion Centre, Aerospace Technology Institute and Manufacturing Advisory Service.
Added 'Shareholding: the role of intermediaries'.
Added 'Prior qualifications of adults on offender learning and skills courses: January to March 2015'.
Added 4 new research papers.
Added 'Young people and their movement between education and work'.
Added 'Social mobility: contribution of further education and skills'.
Added 'Entrepreneurship skills: literature and policy review'.
Added 'Research and innovation organisations: functions and policy issues'.
'Employer ownership of skills pilot round 1: first report' was added to the collection.
Added a new report Directors' pay reforms: how companies and shareholders are responding.
Added four new reports
'GrowthAccelerator: evaluation - stakeholder views of the service' added.
We have added a new publication 'Literacy and numeracy: learning from high-performing and improving countries' (BIS/15/33/)
'Apprenticeships evaluation: employer survey 2014' (research paper number 204), and 'Apprenticeships evaluation: learner survey 2014' (research paper number 205) added.
2 BIS research papers, numbers 178 and 203, added under the joint title 'Investment in skills and innovation'.
GrowthAccelerator: interim evaluation 2014 - BIS research paper 187 added
Metrics and models used to assess company and investment performance: research paper 190
BIS Research strategy 2014 to 2015 added to collection.
Community learning learner survey publication added.
Family businesses research added.
Added 3 research papers on employer particpation in apprenticeships in the health sector (174) and accounting sector (175), and a 2014 update to the study into apprenticeships progression to higher education (176).
Research paper #166, 'Higher and further education and skills: review of value added' now published.
Added 'International Festival for Business: developing a monitoring and evaluation framework'
Research paper 166: 'Higher education, further education and skills interventions: methodological issues in estimating value for money' published.
Added: 24+ Advanced Learning Loans: tracking the impact
Added papers #167: Learning from Futuretrack: studying and living at home, and #168: Learning from Futuretrack: drop out from higher education.
'Apprenticeships evaluation: employer' and 'Apprenticeships evaluation: learners' amended with supplementary reports containing London data.
'Apprenticeships: employer influence' added
Added Community Learning Trust pilot: evaluation.
Understanding localised policy interventions: start-up loans in England’s south-west added.
Understanding localised policy interventions in business support and skills added.
Research paper 157 Evaluation of Apprenticeship Grant for Employers (AGE) Programme added.
Research paper 158 Demand for mentoring among small and medium-sized enterprises added.
English business survey: exploratory analysis added.
Research Paper 155: Customer journeys in business support services added.
Four new reports published about prior qualifications of adults in further education and skills training.
BIS reserach paper 152 - 'National Careers Service satisfaction and progression surveys annual report: April 2012 to March 2013 fieldwork' added.
BIS research paper 120 added: Investigating the accuracy of predicted A level grades as part of the 2010 UCAS admission process.
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