Education and Employers

Careers Provision in Colleges: What works?

By The Careers and Enterprise Company (published November 2018) This report from the Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) examines best practice in careers provision in colleges in England. While the…

The contribution of realist evaluation to critical analysis of the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education competitions.

…European Commission to evaluate the reasoning behind EE programmes produced in such policies, recommendations, best practice guides, curricula and national strategies. Competitions feature as an integral part of EE strategies…

Chain Effects 2018: The impact of academy chains on low-income pupils

…best practice from successful academy chains is shared. In addition, Ofsted should be empowered to examine academy chains and their systems for provision and improvement. The government should do more…

Closing the Regional Attainment Gap

…in Inner London perform the best of any region in England. Both Inner and Outer London have the smallest attainment gaps between disadvantaged and non-disadvantaged students. While disadvantaged pupils nationally…

Helping schools evidence Gatsby benchmarks

The Department for Education adopted the Gatsby Benchmarks as the benchmarks of best practice careers provision. Inspiring the Future has a network of over 45,000 employee volunteers from the world…

Lessons in Tracking – A discussion with Professor Chris Warhurst

…to be less dedicated towards filling in academic surveys. It was also difficult to track them because there was no best medium through which to access them. With Future track…

Lifting the curtain on theatre careers

…part. Jeremy Wright, MP said: “The West End’s theatre offerings are rightly regarded as being amongst the very best in the world. We can only maintain this success if the…

Employer Career Interventions

…We believe the study raises questions about how young people are best supported in interpreting valuable employers’ real-life occupational information and making sense of it for themselves. Practitioners – and…

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New report: What is a ”meaningful encounter” with the world of work?

…about what constitutes such encounters and how they can go about getting the best outcomes for young people. The charity has also produced a toolkit to help state schools plan…

OECD says employers need to tackle ”ingrained assumptions” about jobs

…– but understanding the world beyond the classroom and home must be universal. It can’t be rationed to certain young people and not others. “The best teachers enable children to…