Employers Archives - Education and Employers

July 22, 2021

Scaling Up: Developing and extending career-related learning in primary schools

July 22, 2021

This report by looks at the impact of Primary Futures and explores how the programme can be scaled up. Executive Summary Primary Futures connects primary schools with volunteers from a wide range of diverse backgrounds, with different career journeys and doing different jobs. Schools are connected with volunteers via a secure state of the art […]

January 8, 2021

The Value of Volunteering

January 8, 2021

The Value of Volunteering report, in collaboration with the CIPD, reveals the positive value that organisations can realise by supporting their staff to undertake volunteering in schools and colleges. It shows that employers who support their staff to volunteer have found employees to be more motivated, more productive and have a better sense of well-being. […]

September 10, 2015

What do recruiters think about today’s young people? Insights from four focus groups

September 10, 2015

By Dr Anthony Mann (Director of Policy and Research, Education and Employers) and Prue Huddleston (Professor Emeritus, University of Warwick). Young people are going into the labour market more highly qualified and with more years of education under their belts and yet are demonstrably struggling in the competition for work. The paper by Dr. […]

September 7, 2010

Helping young people succeed: the role of employers

September 7, 2010

Increasing and improving employer involvement in providing young people with careers education, information, advice and guidance. Between January and April 2010, a small team from Deloitte’s Education and Skills practice worked on behalf of the Education and Employers’ charity to conduct research in order to develop implementable proposals based on credible analysis about increasing and […]