May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020
Jill Anderson, Harvard Graduate School of Education – 2014 The Pathways to Prosperity Project at HGSE’s original report revealed the struggles of young people to attain employment in America, despite many good jobs going unfilled, and helped launch a national conversation about the goals and structure of American high schools. In, 2011 the Pathways to […]
Read moreMay 21, 2020
May 21, 2020
Ken Roberts, 2019 Abstract: Throughout the 1980s and 90s there was international interest in the UK’s extensive experience (which began in the 1970s) with measures to alleviate youth unemployment. Today the UK attracts international attention on account of its low rates of youth unemployment and NEET, its (still) relatively rapid education-to-work transitions, and (according to […]
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May 21, 2020
By Sue Maguire First Published November 3, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1177/1745499915612186 While policy-makers in Britain can justifiably lay claim to creating the term NEET to define young people who do not engage in formal learning, training or employment, the high number who fall into, and remain in, this category continues to challenge them. This, in part, is […]
Read moreMay 19, 2020
May 19, 2020
#EEConf21 Thursday 1 July 2021 – Friday 2 July 2021 The conference This virtual conference is hosted by Education and Employers in partnership with the Edge Foundation. It focuses on employer engagement in general education, technical and vocational education and training, and the extent to which such interventions adequately prepare young people for the rapidly […]
Read moreMay 18, 2020
May 18, 2020
James J. Kemple with Cynthia J. Willner – 2008 A longitudinal study of the US careers academies programme. It shows that young people who enrol in the initiative, where they work closely with employers over the last two years of school study, receive a significant and sustained boost into the labour market, earning 11% more […]
Read moreMay 15, 2020
May 15, 2020
Jennifer Gore, Kathryn Holmes, Max Smith, Erica Southgate, Jim Albright Published online: 14 March 2015 Abstract Recent Australian government targets for higher education participation have produced a flurry of activity focused on raising the aspirations of students from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. In this paper we test two key assumptions underpinning much of this […]
Read moreMay 11, 2020
May 11, 2020
Elnaz Kashefpakdel & Christian Percy, Education and Employers, Journal of Education and Work – 2016 Many scholars and policy-makers believe that changes in the education system and labour market over recent decades have created a complex world for young people; and that this can partly be addressed by enhanced career education while individuals are at […]
Read moreMay 7, 2020
May 7, 2020
By Chris Percy and Martin Rogers. The Education and Employers Charity has been supporting people from the world of work to volunteer in schools and colleges since 2009. We know that such volunteering has considerable benefits for young people as well as benefits for employers, such as staff skills gain and saved training costs, among […]
Read moreMay 4, 2020
May 4, 2020
The report examines the range of partnerships and links that secondary and special schools across Wales have with employers. It considers the range of learners’ experiences and the characteristics of effective links between schools and employers. The report also examines how senior leaders in schools are starting to consider how to plan for the cross-cutting […]
Read moreApril 28, 2020
April 28, 2020
Prime 2010 Italy Journal of Vocational Behavior 77 (2010) 58–62 Dominic R. Primé Laura Nota Lea Ferrari Donna E. Palladino Schultheiss Salvatore Soresi Terence J.G. Tracey The results obtained from this study indicate that there is little correspondence between children’s anticipated occupations and their current interests and competence perceptions (i.e., self-efficacy). The result calls into […]
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