January 16, 2015
January 16, 2015
Since the launch of Inspiring the Future in July 2012, more than 7,500 teachers at state schools and colleges across the United Kingdom have registered on the system. Together they’ve sent nearly 70,000 invitations to Inspiring the Future volunteers and thousands of employee volunteers have gone into schools to talk about their jobs and careers and help […]
Read moreOctober 29, 2014
October 29, 2014
Abstract: This seminar accompanied the publication of the new Routledge collection, Understanding Employer Engagement in Education, edited by Anthony Mann, Julian Stanley and Louise Archer. The session included results on the impact of employer engagement on young people and how fairly it is accessed. Understanding Employer Engagement in Education
Read moreOctober 28, 2014
October 28, 2014
This seminar focussed on how employers are working and linking with schools and colleges and considered future options for the triangulation of education, employer and careers service working links. Presentation: The State of Play – Employers, schools and the delivery of careers advice Full report: Understanding the link between employers and schools and the role of the National Careers Service […]
Read moreOctober 15, 2014
October 15, 2014
To accompany the launch of Primary Futures, the Education and Employers Taskforce and National Association of Head Teachers published a guide to employer engagement for primary school leaders. The guide discusses some of the most common activities that primary school teachers across the country organise with employers and employees to support learning and help primary school pupils […]
Read moreOctober 15, 2014
October 15, 2014
At age 5, what did you want to be when you grew up? I briefly wanted to be a firefighter following a visit from a fire crew to my primary school, made even more exciting by the fact that they were called out to an emergency during the visit and nearly drove off with a […]
Read moreOctober 14, 2014
October 14, 2014
Employer engagement in education is a subject of increasing fascination across the globe. Over many decades now, governments around the world have worked to close the gap between the classroom and workplace with the ambition of improving educational and employment outcomes for young people. International practice varies considerably, but that does not mean that there […]
Read moreOctober 3, 2014
October 3, 2014
Switzerland is known as a nation that has postcode scenery, trains that run on time and cows that “ring their bells”. What is not so well known is that the Swiss have developed the world’s best practice in education-employer partnerships that enhance the learning of their teenagers and tackle levels of youth (in particular) teenage […]
Read moreJuly 18, 2014
July 18, 2014
The annual conference of the National Academies Foundation is big: 1,400 people from schools and employers from across the United States, all engaged in some way or another with the now 565 different US Career Academies which serve over 70,000 young people. The US Career Academies model is especially important to people with an interest […]
Read moreJuly 17, 2014
July 17, 2014
The Education and Employers Taskforce research team are regularly commissioned by partner organisations to undertake research on questions related to employer engagement in education. Over recent years, the team has undertaken projects with the Department for Education, UK Commission for Employment and Skills, the British Academy, Edge Foundation, CfBT, Every Child Counts, Creative and Cultural […]
Read moreJuly 9, 2014
July 9, 2014
On Tuesday 8th July the Education and Employers Taskforce and the Financial Times hosted a thought-provoking briefing by Andreas Schleicher, Deputy Director of the OECD Directorate for Education, on the OECD’s first international assessment of the financial literacy of 15 year old students. John Riddings, Managing Director of the Financial Times Group, introduced Andreas who […]
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