Education and Employers

Inspiring apprenticeships with Airbus

…the world of work. Students learnt about the different jobs and apprenticeships at Airbus, and attended presentations from current and past apprentices, a Graduate Project Demonstration – Space Oddity –…

Inspiring young people about careers in hospitality at the Grosvenor House Hotel

…While studying, their students gain experience working in real 4* hotels and graduate from the University of Essex. The event was also used to help promote the Career Footsteps programme…

Youth Voice Census Report 2018

By Youth Employment UK (published October 2018) This annual census from Youth Employment UK explores the views of 14-25-year olds in education, training and employment. 1,498 young people were surveyed…

Skills Forecast: Trends and challenges to 2030

…predict a more polarised labour market in the EU driven by the growth of jobs at the bottom of the wage distribution. Compared to previous periods, the UK along with…

PISA in Focus #93 – Why Don’t More Girls Choose to Pursue a Science Career?

…the gender gaps in relative science performance in favour of boys is larger, and fewer women graduate with a university level STEM degree than in countries with less gender equality….

Creating Pathways to Prosperity: A Blueprint for Action

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…

A Multination Study of Socioeconomic Inequality in Expectations for Progression to Higher Education: The Role of Between-School Tracking and Ability Stratification (Australian Catholica University, University College London)

…previously did not require one. These increases in the employability of graduates has largely come at the cost of those who do not go to university. Although educational expectations do…

Education to Work Transitions: How the Old Middle Went Missing and Why the New Middle Remains Elusive (University of Liverpool)

…they have been overshadowed by sociological attention to the young unemployed/NEETs on the one side, and university students and graduates on the other. Simultaneously, economists have been crowding out sociologists…

Career ready? Preparing young people for working life

…graduates like myself, were also struggling. Thirty years later another global recession is threatening the employment prospects of a new generation of school, college and university leavers. In recessions, young…

Jude Waites

…Durham University, from which Jude graduated in 2020, he has a passion for utilising extra-curricular educational activities as a tool for social mobility. Prior to joining the charity, Jude worked…