Research

Welcome to the Research pages of the Education and Employers Taskforce website.

Over the last twelve months, we have worked to create a new research culture, bringing together academics, analysts, policy makers and practitioners for the first time to share learning and work collaboratively to build the evidence base on what happens when an employer supports education.  Through publications, a groundbreaking research conference and seminar series and new research, we are determined to do more to truly understand how employer involvement influences the educational success and career progression of young people.  By doing so, we are making the case for employer engagement more compelling than ever, moving it from a charitable good work to a business necessity.

Our collection of research reports is growing all the time: part of our remit is to bring under one roof the extensive work already carried out by a huge variety of organisations on the subject of employer engagement in education and so to provide a comprehensive picture of the evidence-base for engagement. Our report, What is to be gained through partnership?, published on 15 October 2010, pulls together high quality evidence about the benefits of education and employer engagement to young people, schools and employers.

We distribute fortnightly research mailouts which list forthcoming events, new publications and digital resources related to research on employer engagement in education.  If you would like to be added to the Taskforce Research Mailgroup distribution list please send an email to james.dawkins@educationandemployers.org with 'TFRM Registration' in the subject line and your contact details.  Please click here to view a copy of our research mail.

For further information and to find out about our research group please visit the Expert Working Group on Research page.