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Senior Economist
Email: clevy@theworkfoundation.com
Telephone: 020 7976 3608
Charles is a Senior Economist and joined The Work Foundation from Arup. Charles’s previous experience includes working at GHK Consulting, both in the UK and on a secondment to its Hong Kong office. Charles has provided economics and research support on a range of forward - looking market and place-based development studies, evaluations and economic modelling exercises. He is experienced in working on a range of research assignments with EU, national, regional and local public sector bodies.
Charles has a degree in economics and politics from Durham University and an MSc in Local Economic Development from the London School of Economics. His expertise includes using both quantitative and qualitative research techniques. Charles also has extensive experience working with forecasts as well as analysing, synthesising and presenting the wide range of information sources associated with future scenario building and policy development exercises.
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Do we really have too many graduates? Today’s (6 Mar) release from ONS does rather suggest that we may have too many graduates. They lead with two stylised facts “Recent graduates more likely to work in lower skill jobs than a decade ago” and “Over the same period the population of recent graduates who are no longer in education has increased by over 41 per cent”. From this it is not too much of a stretch to imagine this afternoon’s headlines and tomorrow’s comment pieces will claim that we should cut student numbers.
Charles Levy 06 March 2012
University-Business collaboration – another task for an over burdened sector? We know that our higher education sector is under strain. Complicated caps on student numbers, changes in tuition fees and the ‘impact’ agenda have created a baffling mix of institutional and individual incentives across the sector. In this context Sir Tim Wilson today published his review setting out over 50 recommendations for how to improve university-business collaboration.
Charles Levy 28 February 2012
9.9% fall in undergraduate applications - time to panic? Today’s figures from UCAS show that 42,038 fewer English applicants applied for UK undergraduate courses starting this year compared to last, a fall of 9.9%. At any time this would be cause for concern – we have consistently demonstrated that as our economy recovers and grows it will create an expanded demand for graduates. But, this year there is an extra worry since 2012 will be the first year that dramatically increased fees will apply for higher education.
Charles Levy 30 January 2012
Key lessons from our Knowledge Economy Programme Charles Levy, senior researcher at the Big Innovation Centre and The Work Foundation talks about the key issues from the Knowledge Economy 2 programme.
Charles Levy 11 January 2012
Tumbling Labour Market to Deliver 1.7m Private Sector Jobs? Today Osborne was able to stand up the House of Commons and rely on the latest forecasts from the Office for Budgetary Responsibility. Things are bad, but with reliable numbers behind him we can have confidence that he is honestly telling us just how bad things are.
Charles Levy 29 November 2011
Are university applications still running at a 9% deficit? Data released by UCAS today was worrying. Comparing September this year to last almost 4,000 fewer people applied for places at university for the following year.
Charles Levy 24 October 2011