June 19, 2020
June 19, 2020
Hans Meeder and Brett Pawlowski of the National Center for College and Career Transitions The report considers education can be transformed to produce better results. This white paper is directed at today’s leaders of education including school superintendents, school board members, as well as school leaders in high schools, middle schools and elementary school […]
Read moreJune 19, 2020
June 19, 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 moreJune 19, 2020
June 19, 2020
Dr James Robson and Ashmita Randhawa SKOPE Research Centre, University of Oxford This resource provides information on best practice for implementing Employability Skills Frameworks in schools. Employability is a complex and contested concept, with multiple actors (employers, institutions, policymakers, teachers, and parents) interpreting and contributing to all the definitions. Employability Skills Frameworks are a way […]
Read moreJune 19, 2020
June 19, 2020
Jenny Bimrose & Alan Brown The professional identity of career counselling and employment practitioners is somewhat fragile. Balancing tensions like meeting targets that exist around funding, whilst attending to the individual needs of the clients they serve, can prove challenging. Maintaining professionalism is increasingly also challenging for practitioners because they need to attend continually to […]
Read moreJune 15, 2020
June 15, 2020
Commercial Education Trust There is more to employer engagement in education than providing work experience placements. To motivate young people and help prepare them for whatever the future brings, employers need to work with education providers to embed authentic and meaningful learning experiences in the wider curriculum. There’s no shortage of evidence that employer engagement […]
Read moreJune 8, 2020
June 8, 2020
Trisha Fettes, Karen Evans & Elnaz Kashefpakdel This paper focuses on how generic skills can be developed to enable young adults to best utilise them in making transitions into the labour market. Drawing on the literature and a Commercial Education Trust study of practices which encourage employer engagement in skills development, it is argued that […]
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 moreJanuary 11, 2018
January 11, 2018
The research team at Education and Employers has published a review of the evidence on how employers can support schools to improve outcomes for pupils. The report, commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) follows the publication of the Government’s Careers Strategy in December of last year, which announced funds to explore new approaches to employer […]
Read moreNovember 6, 2017
November 6, 2017
By Elnaz T. Kashefpakdel, Jordan Rehill and Anthony Mann Making the Grade A new research summary, kindly sponsored by LifeSkills created with Barclays, presents findings from a new survey of secondary school teachers, in which they argue employer engagement and work experience are critical to achieving top grades. As governments around the world seek to tackle stubbornly […]
Read moreOctober 31, 2017
October 31, 2017
By Jordan Rehill, Elnaz T. Kashefpakdel and Anthony Mann Download the full report here. Research carried out by the research team at Education and Employers has been published in a new Careers and Enterprise Company report. The report presents new and existing evidence on the impact and delivery of transition skills events (CV workshops […]
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