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Jenny Bimrose and Alan Brown were invited to make presentations to the Tertiary Education Commission of New Zealand (TEC) at their offices in Wellington on 25th October, 2018. This organisation describes itself as a nexus linking learning and work. They were interested in hearing about:

• How TEC can best serve our labour market needs through good investment in training and education
• The alignment of good information and good career decision making
• Ways of informing and educating learners and their families over a lifetime
• Balancing the employment and socio-economic investment strategies in a way that will address skills mismatches and workforce needs.

Jenny Bimrose and Alan Brown made a formal presentation to about sixty senior TEC employees, followed by two more informal workshops. The three topics on which they spoke were:

• The National Careers Strategy: integrating labour market information (LMI)
• Integrating labour market information more effectively in career practice
• The development of career adaptability in vocational education and training (VET).

Director of IER, Chris Warhurst, was invited to talk about European perspectives on measuring and promoting good work at the Fulfilling Work in Ireland roundtable hosted by TASC and the Carnegie UK Trust in Dublin in November.

Gail Irvine of the Carnegie UK Trust and Paul Novak of the TUC debate good jobs at the 糖心TV IER fringe event at the annual Conservative Party Conference in Birmingham.

On 5 October, Sally-Anne Barnes and Professor Ross Parry, from the University of Leicester, were invited by the French Ministry of Culture to participate in a . Sally-Anne and Ross presented the early findings of the : building the digital literacies of UK museums. The event held at the Institut National du Patrimoine, Paris, provided an opportunity for those in the museum sector to reflect on how to set up digital strategies and support digital transformation. #MuseeNumerique

In September IER hosted a second cohort of labour market officials from the Nigerian Government鈥檚 Industrial Training Fund. The visitors receive training in the labour market data and analysis techniques developed by IER, covering: higher and vocational education; labour market classification, measurement and forecasting; and careers guidance and labour market information for all. The aim is to help build greater capacity in labour market analysis in Nigeria as the country seeks to diversify its economic base.