YU Weekly News Digest

Data releases:

• The Department for Education published its Longitudinal Education Outcomes (LEO) data for the 2018-19 academic year.

• UKRI published detailed data on its spending by both NUTS 1 and by NUTS 2 areas.

Longer reads:

• World Happiness Report 2021

• Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society - Rethinking the Political Economy of Place: Challenges of Productivity and Inclusion (Volume 14, Issue 1, March 2021)

• Centre for Cities - Building back better: How to recover from Covid-19

• Just Transition Commission - A National Mission for a fairer, greener Scotland

• West Yorkshire Combined Authority - Local Skills Report 2021 and Annex: core indicators.

Shorter reads:

• Learning and Work Institute - One year on: The labour market impacts of coronavirus and priorities for the years ahead

• Centre for Progressive Policy - The levelling up outlook #3.

Watch:

• Institute for Government - The final annual report of the Industrial Strategy Council with a panel including: Andy Haldane, Dame Vivian Hunt, Giles Wilkes

• City REDI - Treasury Green Book Roadshow: Presentations and Video From the Event

• WonkHE - The academic experience of digitally enabled learning during Covid-19.

Listen:

• Centre for Cities podcast - City Minutes: How to build back better from Covid-19.

Longer reads:

• Social Market Foundation - Study buddies? Competition and collaboration between higher education and further education

• ResPublica - Smart Solar at Scale: Meeting the UK’s net-zero emissions and clean growth targets

• IPPR - State of health and care: The NHS long term plan after Covid-19.

Shorter reads:

• The climate emergency requires local and regional action in Yorkshire by Monika Antal

• Not all men, but virtually all women by Prfessor Simone Buitendijk

• Yorkshire’s Universities and Business are key to the building the future economy of the region by Professor Shirley Congdon

• Destination Net Zero: Setting and delivering ambitious, credible targets by COP26 University Network Briefing

• The 12-month stretch: Where the Government has delivered – and where it has failed – during the Covid-19 crisis by Resolution Foundation

• Dominic Cummings on ARIA and research funding by David Kernohan, WonkHE

• The future of research and development funding the House of Commons Library briefing published ahead of the S&T Committee meeting

• Goals-based R&D policy: high popularity, low effectiveness – What is the likelihood of the UK reaching its target of spending 2.4% of GDP on R&D by 2027? by Adão Carvalho, HEPI

• Levelling Up Fund: Prioritisation of places methodology note.

Watch:

• The launch of the Yorkshire & Humber Climate Commission and the introductory video with Paul Hudson.

Data & statistics:

• ONS released the latest experimental figures on Coronavirus and higher education students: between19 February to 1 March 2021 in England. This includes information on the behaviours, plans, opinions and well-being of higher education students in the context of guidance on the COVID-19 pandemic.

• Also published this week, ONS analysis of the Graduates’ labour market outcomes during the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic: occupational switches and skill mismatch. This includes the impact of the coronavirus (COVID-19) on the labour market outcomes of graduate workers in the UK, focusing on unemployment, occupational shifts and the skills mismatch.

Longer reads:

• The Devolution APPG: Levelling-up Devo The role of national government in making a success of devolution in England.

Shorter reads:

• Why economic growth models must underpin effective HE collaboration by Jonathan Guest

• Meeting expectations of student services in the next normal by Ruth Wilson

• A New Innovation Agenda for Wales by Peter Rawlinson

• How graduates got on in the Covid-19 job market by David Kernohan

• Checking privilege in the graduate labour market – can universities make a difference? by Debbie McVitty.

Watch:

• The launch of the Bradford Economic Recovery Plan.

Listen:

• CAPECast: Episode 1: Academic-Policy engagement for regional development.

Spring Budget 2021:

• Budget Speech 2021 as delivered by Chancellor Rishi Sunak

• Build Back Better: our plan for growth

• R&D Tax Reliefs: consultation

• You can find all related documentation here.

Responses:

• YU's response

• JRF Spring Budget 2021 analysis

• IFS Spring Budget 2021 analysis.

Longer reads:

• HEPI Debate Paper: Designing an English Social Mobility Index with Bradford and Aston universities leading the ratings.

• IPPR: Skills for a green recovery: A call to action for the UK construction industry

• Resolution Foundation: Long Covid in the labour market - The impact on the labour market of Covid-19 a year into the crisis, and how to secure a strong recovery

• Onward: Levelling up Innovation

• Centre for Cities: Levelling up the UK’s
  regional economies - Increasing the UK’s rate of economic growth

• House of Commons Library: Part-time undergraduate students in England.

Shorter reads:

• How universities can support local businesses and communities by Zahir Irani

• Vaccines, R&D and the Budget by HEPI

• What’s “Levelling up” (extended remix)? by Nick Gray

• Creative Industries Policy & Evidence Centre: Business R&D in the arts, humanities and social sciences.

Watch:

• Festival of Green Innovation led by the University of Hull.

• Regional Studies Association webinar: Main Findings and Implications for Regional Development, Innovation and Higher Education Policy

• OECD Webinar: Spatial productivity in the post-COVID-19 world & meeting summary.

Open consultations, inquiries and calls

• BEIS is seeking views on its proposed approach for establishing a bespoke UK-wide subsidy control regime by 31 March 2021.

• Midlands Innovation: UK-wide inquiry into the higher education & research sector's future need for technical talent by 23 April 2021.

• DfE is consulting on post-qualification admissions by 13 May 2021.

• HM Treasury: R&D Tax Credit Reliefs consultation by 12 June.