November 12, 2020
November 12, 2020
Chris James, Emeritus Professor of Educational Leadership and Management at the University of Bath reflects on the value of the Research Library. The online library provides a comprehensive repository of the different and effective approaches to employer engagement and careers education. It brings together the latest thinking with selected research published over the past 40 […]
Read moreOctober 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 […]
Read moreOctober 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: […]
Read moreOctober 7, 2020
October 7, 2020
Chris Percy, Research Associate, Education and Employers and Director, CSP Resources Research undertaken by Education and Employers has shown that interactions with volunteers from the world of work make a significant difference to pupil’s aspirations, behaviours and attainment. Based on a Randomised Control Trial methodology, the 2019 ‘Motivated to Achieve’ study of 14-16 year olds […]
Read moreOctober 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 […]
Read moreOctober 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 […]
Read moreOctober 2, 2020
October 2, 2020
Philip D. Parker, John Jerrim, Ingrid Schoon, Herbert W. Marsh In recent decades there have been significant declines in inequality of expectations and attainment for tertiary education by gender and ethnicity. But large differences in educational expectations and attainment by socioeconomic status have remained. Educational expectations are the most important predictor of attainment, but […]
Read moreOctober 2, 2020
October 2, 2020
Richard Barrett, Education and Employers Research Associate and freelance education consultant This week’s announcement by the Prime Minister of the Lifetime Skills Guarantee promises an increase in access to vocational learning1. This guarantee should be welcomed, especially in the context of new Prince’s Trust research showing that forty-one per cent of young people believe that, […]
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