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March 17, 2021

Early bird tickets & Call for Papers – 6th International Conference on Employer Engagement

March 17, 2021

How can young people prepare for the world of work at this uncertain time? What support could be provided in light of Covid-19? This year’s International Conference on Employer Engagement is running virtually on 1st and 2nd July to discuss questions like these. The international conference, hosted by Education and Employers in partnership with the […]

March 8, 2021

New OECD report shows gendered aspirations from age five

March 8, 2021

OECD has launched their new report The Future at Five: Gendered aspirations of five-year-olds. Based on the 30 most popular job preferences of 4,000 children in England and Estonia, the report looks at the extent to which children’s early aspirations are affected by gender stereotypes. The report shows a significant presence of gender norms among […]

March 2, 2021

Our Future Derby – Making an impact

March 2, 2021

“We didn’t understand the impact of career learning at all until it happened. We realised from doing the questionnaires that the children had very narrow views when it came to the future… So for us it was about ‘how can we change that?’ and the project gave us that chance. We saw it straight away – the children were really […]

January 29, 2021

Davos 2021

January 29, 2021

Just because Covid-19 prevented the World Economic Forum (WEF) being physically in Davos this year, our charity didn’t want young people there to miss out on their chance to be inspired. Each January for the last two years (see below), Education and Employers has organised for people who are in Davos for the WEF to […]

January 20, 2021

What will education look like in the future?

January 20, 2021

As we begin a new year, it’s traditional to take stock of the past in order to look forward, to imagine and plan for a better future. Looking ahead and beyond the current pandemic, how do we envisage education changing? The events of the past year have accelerated our increasing familiarity and use of technology […]

January 8, 2021

Volunteering boosts employees during lockdown, new research shows

January 8, 2021

As companies struggle to motivate teams working remotely, new research published today (8th January 2021) reveals that employers who support their staff to volunteer in schools and colleges has found employees to be more motivated, more productive and have a better sense of well-being. Read the report. If you would like to volunteer, please click here. If […]

December 17, 2020

An end of year round-up: how volunteers have been helping to inspire young people

December 17, 2020

Hundreds of thousands of young people have been able to meet volunteers from across the UK through the interactive virtual sessions we started in May. They have met people doing a wide variety of roles in different sectors. People who have helped to inspire them, broaden their horizons of the world of work and show […]

December 11, 2020

Webinar announced to launch new report on The Value of Volunteering

December 11, 2020

We have published a new report entitled ‘The Value of Volunteering – volunteering in education and productivity in work’. Read the report: The Value of Volunteering If you would like to volunteer, please click here. If you are an employer looking to set up a volunteering scheme, please get in touch with us. The report […]

December 9, 2020

Gillian Keegan MP, Minister for Apprenticeships and Skills, takes part in a Primary Futures virtual event

December 9, 2020

On Wednesday 9th December, children at Ossett South Parade Primary School in Wakefield got to meet exciting volunteers from the world of work – a Minister and MP, an engineer and a graphic designer! The Year 4 and 5 children were in different classrooms but were able to simultaneously interact with the volunteers from across the UK via the interactive virtual Classroom Chat. After a welcome from Deputy Head Emma Fieldhouse, the school played […]

December 4, 2020

Our Future Derby: An ambitious project reports significant findings when children are exposed to career-related learning (CRL) in primary schools.

December 4, 2020

The Our Future Derby programme aims to design and deliver innovative career-related learning (CRL) intended to develop a primary schools employer engagement initiative to inform and support children, parents, teachers and volunteers. Commissioned and funded by the Opportunity Area Board, the programme works in partnership with 32 primary schools across the 7 most disadvantaged wards […]