March 1, 2018
March 1, 2018
By Elnaz T. Kashefpakdel and Jordan Rehill Download the report. Recent government figures have shown that despite the overall number of apprenticeships increasing, the number of under 19s starts have stagnated at around 20%. With the support of the Commercial Education Trust (CET), this project explores the characteristics of schools and individuals who buck the trend and […]
Read moreFebruary 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 […]
Read moreFebruary 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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February 26, 2018
By the Department for Education This report includes analysis of the characteristics of young people who were not in education, employment or training (NEET) for a year, 3 years after completing key stage 4. The analysis shows that those without any A*-C GCSEs at the end of key stage 4 are those most over-represented in […]
Read moreFebruary 26, 2018
February 26, 2018
By the All-party Parliamentary Group (APPG) and Youth Employment UK This report, by the All-Party Parliamentary Group, sought to understand how many young people would be included in this group; what are the main barriers; evidence and examples of working with young people ‘hidden’ from the official statistics; and what support is most effective in […]
Read moreFebruary 26, 2018
February 26, 2018
By Mona Mourshed, Marc Krawitz, and Emma Dorn (all McKinsey & Company) In this, the first of a series of reports by researchers writing for McKinsey & Company, the authors explain how they have applied advanced analytics and machine to identify factors that play a critical role in student achievement. Using data from the OECD’s Program […]
Read moreFebruary 13, 2018
February 13, 2018
The Edge Bursary Fund, which is also supported by Education and Employers, aims to support PhD students whose research is about professional and technical education, apprenticeships at all levels, 14-19 education, employer engagement or work in areas that are of interests to the Edge Foundation and Education and Employers. We aim to support students to attend a national or […]
Read moreFebruary 5, 2018
February 5, 2018
Wednesday 18th April 2018 10:00 – 13:30 UCL Institute of Education, Central London Download the symposium programme. Organised by the charity Education and Employers and the UCL Institute of Education, Centre of Post 14 Education and Work, this half-day event sets out to provide participants with the opportunity to explore effective ways of supporting young people […]
Read moreFebruary 1, 2018
February 1, 2018
By Michael Lanford and Tattiya Maruco In this article, published in the American Educational Research Journal, the authors used a qualitative data set of 52 academy coordinators and teachers as well as 41 students from a single American school district to examine social capital in career academies and the factors that potentially make them viable […]
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February 1, 2018
By Zoe De Clayes, Tami McCrone and David Sims This NFER and London Councils report identifies emerging promising practice in the delivery of careers education and guidance (CEG) through ‘London Ambitions’ careers strategy. The report used 22 semi-structured interviews with staff and five focus groups with young people in case-study visits to four schools and one FE […]
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