Education and Employers

Inspiring the Future: A Year

…presentations. For their STEAM Careers Breakfast, the UCL Academy found that 28 volunteers accepted their invite. Breakfasting with the volunteers during a careers speed networking session, the students at UCL…

New research on school and academy governance

…timely and insightful look at the state of school governance in 2008 and many of its recommendations still apply in education today. Fast forward ten years to 2018/19 and there…

The Impact Of Employer Engagement With Schools

…and fast-changing labour market. Young people’s aspirations develop early, are influenced by social background, and do not match labour market demand Careers aspirations develop at a young age and are…

Our story

…limited perspectives of 7 to 11 year-olds and the mismatch between their career aspirations and the fast-changing needs of the labour market. 2019 icould becomes part of the Education and…

A Follow-Up Randomised Controlled Trial Evaluation of the Effects of Business in the Community’s Time To Read Mentoring Programme

A report by Sarah Miller, Paul Connolly and Lisa Maguire, commissioned by the Centre for Effective Education, Queen’s University Belfast The research reported here follows from the 2009 Ten Year…

CBI’s Richard Lambert on tackling youth unemployment and the role of employers

Richard Lambert, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), and an Education and Employers Taskforce Trustee, made a speech to a Deloitte breakfast meeting entitled ‘Breaking the cycle of…

High-tech sector offers jobs but demands new skills

…to close young peoples’ IT skills gap. The good news is that the IT employment sector is growing 5 times faster than the UK average. Read the full Guardian story….

Enterprising Minds unveiled

Enterprising Minds is a Carnegie UK research project that explores the attitudes of young people to enterprise, education, and the future in a fast changing economy. It incorporates 70,000 unique…

New evidence from NI shows employee volunteer reading schemes work

New evidence from Northern Ireland demonstrates that employee volunteer reading schemes in primary schools raise both achievement and aspiration. Read the full Queens University Belfast report….

‘I’m good, but not that good’: digitally-skilled young people’s identity in computing.

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…