February 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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February 1, 2018
Edited by Tristram Hooley, Ronald Sultana and Rie Thomen This edited collection examines the intersections between career guidance, social justice and neo-liberalism. Contributors offer an original and global discussion of the role of career guidance in the struggle for social justice and evaluate the field from a diverse range of theoretical positions. Drawing on education, sociology, […]
Read moreFebruary 1, 2018
February 1, 2018
In this research paper, commissioned by the Department for Education, the authors (CFE Researchers and Dr Deirdre Hughes OBE) set out to test the hypothesis: given the current complexity of the post-16 educational landscape, learners can experience difficulties making fully-informed choices and navigating technical education routes in particular. The aim of the conducting the survey was […]
Read moreFebruary 1, 2018
February 1, 2018
By Matthew Bursnall, Vahé Nafilyan and Stefan Speckesser In this new paper by researchers at the Centre for Vocational Education Research (CVER) the authors aim to provide evidence about starts, achievement rates and duration for a recent cohort of UK apprentices. For the cohort of all 516,880 intermediate and advanced apprenticeships starting in England in 2011/12, […]
Read moreFebruary 1, 2018
February 1, 2018
By Billy Wong Computers and information technology are fast becoming a part of young people’s everyday life. However, there remains a difference between the majority who can use computers and the minority who are computer scientists or professionals. Drawing on 32 semi-structured interviews with digitally skilled young people (aged 13–19), this paper explores their views […]
Read moreFebruary 1, 2018
February 1, 2018
In this two-part research paper developed by Cedefop, the authors provide an overview of the changing nature and role of vocational education and training (VET) in Europe. This first volume assesses the multiple attempts in academic literature to define or explain vocational education and training and to develop a theoretical model to analyse national definitions […]
Read moreFebruary 1, 2018
February 1, 2018
This paper investigates whether the educational choices that young people make after the completion of their GCSEs (at age 16) are influenced by their peers. More specifically, it takes advantage of the variation in peer groups that arises when students move from primary to secondary school in order to isolate the impact of secondary school […]
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