Conference Papers and Slides
You can download the Conference Programme
in pdf format, or consult the list of speakers and presentations
below. Where we have the full papers, you can click on the
links.
Speakers and presentations
Keynote speaker: Professor Robert Schwartz, Harvard
Graduate School of Education
Pathways to prosperity: Meeting the challenge of preparing young
Americans for the 21st century (paper)
Keynote speaker: Dr Jan Eric Sundgren, Senior
Vice-President, Public and Environmental Affairs, Volvo
Group
Private-public sector collaboration in education (slides)
Dave Bevan, Education and Employers
Taskforce
The importance of experience of the world of work in admissions
to Russell Group universities (paper
and slides)
Professor Stephen Brammer, Warwick Business School
and Dr David Eddy Spicer & Prof. Chris James,
University of Bath
The Chair of the school governing body: An analysis of aspects
of the person, the responsibility and the role in relation to the
school and its governance (slides)
Prof. Alan Brown and Dr Deirdre Hughes, Warwick
Institute for Employment Research (IER)
The role of learning in developing career adaptability at work:
Evidence from the UK and Norway (paper and
slides)
Louis Coiffait, Pearson Centre for Policy and
Learning
Enterprise and entrepreneurship education: Key findings so far
(slides)
James Dawkins, Education and Employers
Taskforce
Looking back, moving on: The views of young Britons (aged 19 -
24) on their teenage experiences of school-mediated employer
engagement and correlations with subsequent labour market outcomes
(slide)
Jill Collins, Glynis Dean and Mary Guy, The Royal
Airforce and Sheffield Hallam University
Ensuring the future workforce: A Royal Air Force perspective (
paper)
Dr Abigail Diamond and James Kewin, CFE (Research and
Consulting Ltd)
Higher education transforming workforce development? Key
findings from the evaluation of the 'Higher education
transforming workforce development programme (paper and slides)
Gill Frigerio, Careers Studies Unit, University of
Warwick
Social mobility and unpaid work experience in higher education
(paper and slides)
Dr Tricia Le Gallais, Birmingham City
University
What a person can be they should be: An exploration of one
school's efforts to widen their students' horizons through their
work experience programme (paper and slides)
Anne Marie Graham, University Council of Modern
Languages and Professor Pamela Moores, Aston
University
The labour market for graduates with language skills - measuring
the gap between supply and demand (paper)
Craig Holmes and Professor Ken Mayhew,
SKOPE, University of Oxford:
Room at the top - and the bottom, too: the winners and losers in
the "hourglass" labour market (slides)
Prof. Prue Huddleston and Dr Andrea Laczik, Centre
for Education and Industry, University of Warwick
The new diploma qualification: A question of identity? (slides)
Prof. Prue Huddleston, University of Warwick and Dr
Anthony Mann, Education and Employers Taskforce
Perhaps you are a barrister and can help a current wykehamist
discover something about chamber life? Employer engagement in high
performing independent schools (slides)
Dr Keith Kintrea and Dr Ralf St.Clair, College of Social
Sciences, Glasgow University
Knowing their place: How location makes a difference in young
people's aspirations (slides)
Professor Yaojun Li and Professor Fiona Devine,
Manchester University
Origin, education and destination: An analysis of social
mobility in Britain (1991 - 2005) (slides)
Richard Marsh, National Apprenticeship
Service
Apprenticeship quality and growth in England - An
international perspective: Why aren't we as good as the Germans?
(paper and slides)
Emma Charlotte Norris, Royal Society of
Arts
Not enough capital? Exploring education and employment
progression in further education (paper)
Dr Richard Pettinger, University College
London
Employer engagement: A strategic human resource management
perspective (paper and slides)
Kate Shoesmith and Joe Shamash, City & Guilds Centre
for Skills Development
Work experience: What's in it for employers? (slides)
Julian Stanley, Centre for Education and Industry,
Warwick University and Dr Anthony Mann, Education and
Employers Taskforce
What difference does it make? Building a theoretical
understanding of what employer interventions do (slides)
Dr James Stone III, National Research Centre for Career
& Technical Education, University of Louisville,
USA
College and career ready: A conceptual framework for increasing
engagement, achievement and transition (paper and slides)
Dr Sulieman Sulieman, UNESCO (The United Nations
Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization)
Entrepreneurship education and youth employability in the Arab
region: Partnership between public and private sectors (paper and slides)
Prof. Alison Taylor, Department of Educational Policy
Studies, University of Alberta, Canada:
High School Apprenticeships in Canada: Exploring Social Mobility
(paper and slides)