Professor Ewart Keep, Deputy Director of the joint Oxford and Cardiff University and ESRC-funded centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance – The Scottish Skills Strategy and its Implications for Research and Development
Professor Ewart Keep is the Deputy Director of the joint Oxford and Cardiff University and ESRC-funded centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), based at Cardiff University. His research interests include: lifelong learning policy, learning organisations, the management of the VET system, employer’s attitudes towards skills and what shapes these, and the nature of the relationship between skills and performance (broadly defined). He is currently working on the use of recruitment and selection as a source of skills, and on how English central government controls the publicly-funded VET system. Professor Keep is a member of the Nuffield 14-19 Review directorate, a member of the SSDA Expert Advisory Panel, and has recently joined the Scottish Funding Council’s Skills Committee.
Ewart will explore the research and development implications of taking forward the Scottish skills strategy. Drawing on SKOPE’s research, he will look at what can be learned from other countries’ experience in trying to create new means of delivering skills, improving their usage, and stimulating underlying levels of demand for learning in the economy.
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