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.
February 27, 2019
February 27, 2019
By NFER (published February 2019) This new report is the final phase of a two-phase project by National Foundation for Education Research (NFER) examining the project-based learning (PBL) and employer engagement aspects of University Technical Colleges’ (UTCs) curriculum development and delivery. The Buck Institute for Education defines PBL as a teaching method in which students […]
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February 27, 2019
February 27, 2019
By CBI (published January 2019) Nearly two years on after the introduction of the Apprenticeship Levy, apprenticeship starts have fallen by around 40%. While the government has adopted several recommendations made by the Confederation of British Industry (CBI) in their last Education and Skills Annual report, this report marks the first of the CBI’s series of Levy […]
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February 27, 2019
February 27, 2019
By The Sutton Trust (published December 2018) This new report from the Sutton Trust builds upon previous research around the relationship between university admissions, socioeconomic background and geography of students to examine who is applying and being accepted to which universities across England. It examines the relationship between school type and geography with higher education […]
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February 27, 2019
February 27, 2019
By Cedefop (published December 2018) This new report from Cedefop provides information about the current state of Europe’s labour market and potential future trends. 2017 saw the fifth year of recovery in EU GDP growth, which is expected to continue in the near term averaging 1.8% until 2020 and slowing to 1.4% from 2021 onwards. The […]
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February 26, 2019
February 26, 2019
By Bursnall, M., Naddeo, A., & Speckesser, S. (NIESR) (published January 2019) This new discussion paper from Bursnall, Naddeo and Speckesser analyses students’ choices when leaving Key Stage 4 to Key Stage 5 for pupils progressing to either academic A-level or vocational Level 3 programmes. Using data published by the Department for Education and linked […]
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January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019
By LKMco (published December 2018) This report from LKMco, commissioned by the London Greater Authority (GLA) examines how support for white free school meal-eligible (FSM) and black Caribbean boys across London can be improved. While pupils in London are more likely to achieve better outcomes at the end of their education than elsewhere in the […]
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January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019
By Social Mobility Commission (published December 2018) This report from the Social Mobility Commission examines public attitudes to social mobility in the UK. The report draws upon an online YouGov survey of over 5,520 UK adults across the UK, as well as a supplementary survey of 1,656 adults conducted in October 2018 and another survey […]
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January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019
By Institute for Fiscal Studies and Department for Education (published November 2018) This report from the Department for Education (DfE) and Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) uses the new Longitudinal Educational Outcomes (LEO) administrative dataset to provide an estimate of the impact of Higher Education (HE) on the earnings of graduates at age 29 and […]
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January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019
By Catherine Brentnall, Iván Diego Rodríguez and Nigel Culkin (published November 2018) This article explores the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education (EE), particularly the use of entrepreneurial competitions and competitive pedagogy, through a realist evaluation (RE). RE is an approach designed specifically to understand why particular complex programmes/interventions work. The approach assumes that programmes such as EE […]
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January 31, 2019
January 31, 2019
By Graham Attwell and Dr Deirdre Hughes (published November 2018). This article from Attwell and Hughes examines how labour market intelligence and information can be used in the current digital age to better understand the UK labour market. Labour market information (LMI) includes any quantitative or qualitative information on the labour market that can assist […]
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