The literature review has clearly indicated that the scale and characteristics of demand for Geography Earth and Environmental Sciences experts across different countries is unknown. Therefore, there is an urgent need to investigate this issue. This paper presents the results of research on the real demand for GEES specialists. In the paper, real…

Previous stages of "The Skills Imperative 2035" research programme involved projecting what jobs will be available in the future labour market and what skills will be needed to do those jobs. The skills projections identified a set of skills that are intensively utilised across the labour market today, but which will be in even greater…

The "2025 Academic Supply for Occupational Demand Report" is a joint report between the Tennessee Higher Education Commission (THEC), Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development (TDLWD), Tennessee Department of Economic and Community Development (TNECD), and Tennessee Department of Education (TDOE). The Department of Finance…

Introduction: The Asian region is now a pivotal driver of global economic growth. Urgent discussions are thus mandated on the forthcoming demands for qualifications generating broad-based knowledge and skillsets related to emergent challenges posed by the new industrial revolution. A survey of competencies that will be required is crucial for…

This report is designed to be read after "Rethinking skills gaps and solutions, Working Paper 4 of The Skills Imperative 2035: Essential skills for tomorrow's workforce." Its purpose is to give further depth and weight to the key findings and recommendations reported in Working Paper 4 by describing the analyses that were conducted using…

The Skills Imperative 2035 is a five-year research programme which aims to help government, business, and other stakeholders address future skills shortages by identifying the skills that will be most vital across the labour market, estimating future gaps in these skills, examining the determinants of skill development, and identifying the groups…

This report is designed to be read after "Rethinking skills gaps and solutions, Working Paper 4 of The Skills Imperative 2035: Essential skills for tomorrow's workforce." Its purpose is to give further detail on the development, piloting and validation of the new instrument for the measurement of Essential Employment Skills. It is one of…

In July 2022 the Office for National Statistics (ONS) announced that they had made errors coding occupational data in the Labour Force Survey (LFS) for 2021. These errors were subsequently corrected and the ONS published revised LFS data for 2021 in summer 2023. LFS data up to 2021 played a central role in the production of the Skills Imperative…

This report provides revised figures and tables for an analysis of the demand for skills in the labour market in 2035. A list of the tables and figures is provided.

There is a current discussion in universities regarding the need for dedicated research data stewards. This article presents a set of fictional personas for research data support based on experience and requests by experts in different areas of data management. Using a modified Delphi study, 24 participants from different stakeholder groups have…

The development of information and communication technologies and the formation of a unified information space bring huge potential to the development of society. Specialists in the field of digital economy are increasingly in demand in the labor market. One of the main national tasks related to achieving universal digital literacy is facing all…

"How Clear Is Their Path? Guided Career Pathways and Community College Students" explores how prepared community college students are to meet their career goals. Over 90 percent of students responding to the 2023 Community College Survey of Student Engagement (CCSSE) indicated they had chosen a career path. But many of those respondents…

How does postsecondary human capital investment respond to changes in labor market skill demand? We quantify the magnitude and nature of this response in the U.S. 4-year sector. To do so, we develop a new measure of institution-major-specific labor demand, and corresponding shift-share instrument, that combines job ads with alumni locations. We…

The labour market is changing. Twelve million people work in occupations that are projected to decline, putting them at higher risk of losing their jobs. This report provides recommendations for supporting more of these workers in to successfully transition into growing areas of the labour market. This is the first recommendations report to be…

This stage of "The Skills Imperative 2035" research programme assesses "What skills will be needed most in the labour market of the future?" The approach to addressing this question is to combine detailed forecasts of employment in the jobs of the future together with projections of the skills that will be used in those jobs.…