This online library provides a comprehensive repository of the different and effective approaches to employer engagement and careers education. Developed over the last decade it brings together the latest thinking with selected research published over the past 40 years for the benefit of researchers, academics and policy makers.
Free to access and searchable by keyword, it features summaries of a wide range of studies with abstracts and links to the full reports. With research articles and reports from leading figures and education bodies, you can examine issues such as employer-led learning, youth employment, career related learning in primary schools, and social mobility, as well as information on gender, ethnicity, and specific subject study such as STEM.
The main library is complemented by an extensive online video collection and a physical library. The video collection comprises over 150 videos of researchers discussing their work and its implications for policy and practice, together with conference presentations and seminars.
September 10, 2018
September 10, 2018
By The Edge Foundation (published July 2018) The second of the education charity’s bulletins on the UK’s skills shortages shines a spotlight on the tech industry and the devastating economic impact of the government’s failure to encourage young people to study relevant subjects and upskill existing workers. This second bulletin includes new data from the […]
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September 10, 2018
September 10, 2018
By Jenna Jacobson & Leslie Regan Shade in Journal of Education and Work 31(3) (published July 2018) Young people are repeatedly promised that internships will pave the way to the career of their dreams by providing the ‘hands-on experience’ necessary to differentiate themselves in a fierce job market. However, in many industries, internships – and increasingly unpaid […]
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September 10, 2018
By Department for Education (published August 2018) The UK Employer Skills Survey (ESS) is one of the largest business surveys in the world, with the data in this report based on survey responses from over 87,000 employers. The survey provides a comprehensive source of intelligence on the skills challenges that UK employers face both within their […]
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August 21, 2018
August 21, 2018
By the Learning and Work Institute This first report of the Youth Commission examines the evidence on opportunities for young people and how they vary across England. It reports the findings of new polling on the views of young people and older generations on the current picture and what would make a difference. Key findings […]
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August 21, 2018
By Pauline Mussett and Lucia Mytna Kurekova (OECD) Launched on the 5th July 2018 at the 5th International Conference on Employer Engagement in Education and Training a new report from the OECD – “Career guidance and employer engagement”. The report was presented by Dr Anthony Mann, Head of VET and Adult Learning at the OECD, and former Director of Research […]
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August 21, 2018
August 21, 2018
By The Edge Foundation Within the world of academic education, a huge amount of debate and work has taken place over recent decades to look at underlying questions about its purpose, the way in which knowledge and information is structured, the means of teaching and assessing and the role of education in society. This has […]
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July 31, 2018
July 31, 2018
In this new report, the Australian organisation the Mitchell Institute have emphasised the importance of school-industry partnerships in Australia’s education system. The report addresses a collective challenge for education and employers: ensuring that all young people in Australia develop the skills and capabilities that will enable them to succeed in the future of work. The […]
Read moreMay 21, 2018
May 21, 2018
By Jerim, J., Greany, T. & Perara, N. (Education Policy Institute) In the third and final report from the Education Policy Institute and the UCL Institute of Education, the authors investigate the socio-economic gap in secondary school pupils’ academic achievement. Using the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 dataset, the report investigates the academic performance […]
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February 26, 2018
February 26, 2018
By John Widdowson (Northern Council for Further Education – NCFE) In this new paper by the NCFE and the Campaign for Learning, the author argues that the education and training needs of a significant proportion of young 16-18 year olds aren’t being met. Young people should be at the heart of strategies for a high […]
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February 26, 2018
February 26, 2018
By the Education Endowment Foundation To begin to tackle the challenge of the attainment gap requires us first to understand it – both the scale and nature of the gap, as well as the factors most likely to help close it. This report assesses the attainment gap through the lens, first, of children and young […]
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