Current claims by government, major IT companies and educational institutions in the UK that IT skills offer enhanced inclusion into the new economy, are attracting women to the field of information systems. The needs of one social group – lone women parents – that IT skills initiatives seek to include will be analyzed in the light of another policy trend, the ‘work life balance’. Using narrati...

Government statistical agencies collect enormously valuable data on the nation's population and business activities. Wide access to these data enables evidence-based policy making, supports new research that improves society, facilitates training for students in data science, and provides resources for the public to better understand and participate in their society. These data also affect the ...

Abstract In the last decade, UK Government has attempted to implement improved processes and procedures in modelling analysis response Laidlaw report of 2012 Macpherson review 2013. The was commissioned after failings during Intercity West Coast Rail (ICWC) Franchise procurement exercise by Department for Transport (DfT) that led a legal challenge analytical models used within exercise. looked ...

Increasing enterprises’ expenditure on their employees’ vocational education and training (VET) remains an important policy goal for governments in many countries. Policy mechanisms implemented to secure this goal include the legislated and mandated approaches adopted in Germany, France and Australia, and measures designed to encourage voluntarism and exhort enterprises to increase their expend...

Transnational ageing presents fundamental challenges to nationally bounded welfare states, which historically have tended to be organised according to a logic of solidarity among nationals and permanent residents of a given state territory. Nonetheless, the Dutch and French governments have taken steps to break this link between solidarity and territorially bounded consumption of welfare, by pr...