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.
July 22, 2021
July 22, 2021
The Inter-Agency Working Group on Career Guidance This booklet is the second edition of the first booklet on the importance of investing in career guidance published six international organisations. Members of the Inter-Agency Working Group on Career Guidance (WGCG) published this booklet to reflect the fact that the need for guidance had increased sharply with […]
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June 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 […]
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January 14, 2021
January 14, 2021
Further Education Trust for Leadership This new research conducted by Deirdre Hughes OBE explores the ways in which leaders can provide young people and adults with the pathways they need to achieve success, and aims to encourage discussion around ways forward in these uncertain times. Executive Summary: FETL commissioned this ‘think piece’ to stimulate ideas […]
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December 17, 2020
December 17, 2020
OECD The paper reviews academic literature that analyses national longitudinal datasets evidencing teenage career-related indicators of better than expected adult employment outcomes. It then draws on PISA2018 data to see how countries compare and explores variations by social characteristics. The analysis is influenced by Arjan Apparadui’s conception of the Capacity to Aspire, and sees indicators […]
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October 13, 2020
October 13, 2020
The Social Mobility Commission This publication explores the characteristics of those who leave and remain across the Great Britain. The report shows migration from both poorer and richer areas but those who leave poorer areas are four times more likely to go to areas with similar or higher levels of deprivation. The peak age for […]
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October 12, 2020
October 12, 2020
Authors Selina McCoy (Economic and Social Research Institute, Dublin and Trinity College Dublin) Delma Byrne (National University of Ireland Maynooth and Geary Institute, University College Dublin) Pat O’Connor (University of Limerick and Geary Institute, University College Dublin) Abstract This paper is concerned with the underlying question of what shapes the assessment of children’s mathematical ability: […]
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October 5, 2020
October 5, 2020
Apprenticeships are often considered an effective means of ensuring social mobility. They are ascribed this function because they provide both a way to increase skills and a link between education and employment, especially for those individuals who do not progress to Higher Education. This report is the outcome of an in-depth investigation of the English […]
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October 5, 2020
October 5, 2020
The ASPIRES project is a unique, long-term mixed-methods research study of the science and career aspirations of 10-23 year olds in England. The findings in this report are drawn from 48 interviews, taking place during the UK lockdown, with young people who have been part of the study for over 10 years. This issue focuses […]
Read moreOctober 4, 2020
October 4, 2020
Steven Roberts Abstract Jones’ (2002) discussion of polarised transitions and the ‘fast and slow lanes to adulthood’ espoused by Bynner et al. (2002) are good examples of how dualistic language often permeates youth transitions discourses. This often results in transitions research concentrating on a dichotomy of experience during the youth phase. The primary purpose […]
Read moreOctober 2, 2020
October 2, 2020
by Kenneth Roberts University of Liverpool Abstract Middling youth were centre stage in research on school-to-work transitions from the early-20th century up to and throughout the 1980s. Since then they have been overshadowed by sociological attention to the young unemployed/NEETs on the one side, and university students and graduates on the other. Simultaneously, economists […]
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