Research library

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.

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Children’s occupational knowledge: a conceptual framework and measure

April 21, 2020

Children’s occupational knowledge: a conceptual framework and measure By Rachel Gali Cinamon · Michal Yeshayahu April 2020 International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-020-09425-4 The paper presents a conceptualization of children’s knowledge about the world of work and offers a new measure developed to measure the concept. The basic assumption of the study […]

Warwick Institute for Employment Research – Working Futures

March 5, 2020

The Working Futures series by the Warwick Institute for Employment Research is a study of past and possible future employment prospects in the UK labour market over 10-year periods. Working Futures primarily investigates demand for skills by occupation and qualification. This most recent report, covering 2017 to 2027, is an attempt to give a detailed […]

Science aspirations heavily influenced by existing social inequalities

March 3, 2020

New research shows the extent to which the aspirations of young people are influenced by inequalities such as class, gender and ethnicity. The work, by the UCL Institute of Education (IOE), finds that the ways in which young people identify with science are also influenced by whether a young person has been able to experience […]

Drawing the Future: Exploring the career aspirations of New Zealand children

February 21, 2020

A major new report has been published which examines the career aspirations of 7-13 years olds in New Zealand. The research format and methodology is based on Drawing the Future which charity Education and Employers and its partners TES Global, the NAHT, OECD Education and Skills, and UCL Institute of Education published during the World […]

Dream Jobs? Teenagers’ Career Aspirations and the Future of Work

January 29, 2020

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have released their report Dream Jobs: Teenagers’ Career Aspirations and the Future of Work. The report, based on PISA 2018 data, analyses changes (or lack of) of career aspirations of young people since 2000. Read the full report here.

Children’s aspirations & emotional and behavioural problems

December 10, 2019

Over the past decade ‘aspirations’ have received considerable attention within UK policy. The emphasis on aspirations has proved extremely evocative, in particular the notion that raising the aspirations of poor families is an important device in improving low educational attainment and social mobility. The issue of low aspirations has featured in White Papers and educational […]

Evaluating employer career interventions in English schools

June 21, 2019

Ian Mcintosh and Julia Yates Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling, 42(1), pp. 9-17. Read the article. Government policy on English schools’ careers activities indicates an emphasis on employer interventions over traditional career guidance. This article by researchers with City, University of London begins with a literature review suggesting that the […]

Evaluation of Nuffield Research Placements – Interim Report

June 21, 2019

The Nuffield Foundation Read the interim report. Work placements offered to Year 12 students are effective in increasing access to university courses in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), according to findings from this report from the Nuffield Foundation. It is widely recognised that there is a shortage of skills in STEM subjects in the […]

Independent panel report to the Review of Post-18 Education and Funding Presented to Parliament by the Secretary of State for Education by Command of Her Majesty May 2019

June 17, 2019

Department for Education Read the report In February 2018, Theresa May announced that there would be a “wide-ranging review into post-18 education” led by Philip Augar. This new review of Post-18 Education and Funding presented to Parliament in May 2019 drew evidence from an extensive literature review of post-18 education provision and funding, 370 submissions […]

Teachers’ engagement with research: what do we know? A research briefing

June 17, 2019

Education Endowment Foundation and NFER Read the research briefing This new report from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) and the Education Endowment Foundation summaries the findings from a nationally representative survey of schools and teachers investigating their use of research. The findings are based on survey results from 1,670 teachers in England administered […]