October 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 […]
Read moreJuly 7, 2014
July 7, 2014
Welcome to the updated Education and Employers Taskforce website! We’ve redesigned the Research section to make it much easier to browse through Taskforce publications and to explore our extensive collection of research, conferences and seminars on the topic of employer engagement in the educational process. We hope you’ll find it much easier to locate items of interest, […]
Read moreJuly 7, 2014
July 7, 2014
This pamphlet presents findings from a small survey of 28 teachers, teaching assistants, head teachers and maths coordinators at schools that take part in Number Partners, a national employer volunteering scheme whereby volunteers go into primary schools to help children with their maths.
Read moreJuly 3, 2014
July 3, 2014
By Tricia Le Gallais and Richard Hatcher, Birmingham City University. In Employer Engagement in Education: Theories and Evidence (Routledge, 2014) eds. Anthony Mann, Julian Stanley and Louise Archer. This article sets out the findings of two research studies which investigate the relationship between the work placements that school students undertake and their social class. The […]
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