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March 30, 2024
March 30, 2024
Executive Summary Teachers and the wider education workforce play a key role in supporting young people’s career decision-making. However, the pace of change in the economy and industries can make it challenging for teachers to stay up to date with the skills employers need in a future workforce and the variety of opportunities and career […]
Read moreDecember 17, 2021
December 17, 2021
The Careers & Enterprise Company This report presents trends in careers education over the past two years. It is focused on areas relevant to current debates and where there has been substantial change since before the pandemic. The trends were identified from the findings of a national dataset of 3,893 secondary schools and colleges (78%of […]
Read moreOctober 8, 2021
October 8, 2021
This report discusses impact of Our Future Derby project. Executive Summary The project engaged at least 7,500 children and teachers through a range of inspirational career-related learning (CRL) activities involving volunteers from a wide variety of backgrounds and industry sectors. the aims of the project were to raise the aspirations of all pupils, inspire teachers […]
Read moreJuly 27, 2021
July 27, 2021
Developing the Young Workforce Glasgow This report presents a review of the research on the impact of employer engagement with schools and pupils. The intention is to use the research to encourage more engagement and to focus action on those groups and activities where there is particular evidence of strong impact. It synthesises different research reports of […]
Read moreJune 16, 2021
June 16, 2021
Australian Council for Educational Research The report by Sheldon Rothman discusses research that engaged directly with school leaders and teachers around what they want from engagement with business, including reflections on experiences to date. Executive Summary: In recent years there have been policy discussions of the potential value of businesses engaging in the school education […]
Read moreJune 2, 2020
June 2, 2020
Another look at rural-nonrural differences in students’ educational aspirations Journal of Research in Rural Education, Winter, 1993, Vol. 9, No.3, 170-178 Emil J. Haller, Cornell University Sarah J. Virkler, University of Buffalo This 1993 journal article explored the aspirations of rural and nonrural young people in the USA. It concluded that socio economic status […]
Read moreOctober 31, 2017
October 31, 2017
By Jordan Rehill, Elnaz T. Kashefpakdel and Anthony Mann Download the full report here. Research carried out by the research team at Education and Employers has been published in a new Careers and Enterprise Company report. The report presents new and existing evidence on the impact and delivery of transition skills events (CV workshops […]
Read moreOctober 31, 2017
October 31, 2017
A new report by the Education Policy Institute and Pearson In 2012, with the education system at the start of a period of significant reform across all stages, Pearson invited Sir Roy Anderson to chair an independent advisory group to investigate concerns around the lack of readiness of 18-year-old students for the world of work […]
Read moreAugust 8, 2016
August 8, 2016
By Dr Deirdre Hughes OBE (Principal Research Fellow, University of Warwick), Dr Anthony Mann, (Head of Policy and Research, Education and Employers), Dr Sally-Anne Barnes, (Senior Research Fellow, Warwick Institute for Employment Research), Beate Baldauf, (Senior Research Fellow Warwick Institute for Employment Research) and Rachael McKeown, (Research Assistant at the Education and Employers) Education Endowment Foundation. 2016. Download the […]
Read moreAugust 4, 2016
August 4, 2016
View the full picture library from the conference here. July 21 and 22 2016 saw the coming together of key thinkers from around the globe for the International Conference on Employer Engagement in Education and Training. The conference, jointly hosted by Education and Employers and the Edge Foundation, aimed to present accessible research to be […]
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