…15,025 student responses to a survey designed to assess the impact of work experience on the following areas: student motivation and confidence; knowledge and understanding of the world of work;…
…be so, and how policy interventions might be designed to reduce such inequalities, provides the framework for the investigation and discussions given in this report. The report outlines findings derived…
…to the design of these placements, which encompassed a range of activities to improve students’ understandings of what an engineering career might entail. Providing such placements is thus likely to…
A Report by Research Agency Corporate Citizenship (Andrew Wilson and Francesca Hicks), Commissioned by the City of London Sixteen large, private-sector companies took part in this study, which was designed…
…a job usually done by the opposite sex. However, instances of interventions designed to tackle the high uptake of gender-stereotypical roles were few, many managers/teachers referring to a policy-based equality…
…It is a guide that is especially relevant to organisations that fund projects designed to improve the educational experience of young people, aged 5 to 19, through initiatives that engage…
…this process, through the provision of work placements for students and teachers and becoming involved in curricular design and project assessment, for example. Mechanisms for employers to more effectively engage…
…across the country with tens of thousands of volunteers working in different sectors – for free. These volunteers, from a huge range of jobs – from app designers to zoologists,…
…related learning had undergone significant change. In September 2010, the designated careers service provider ‘Connexions’ was cut by local authorities. In 2011, the Department for Education launched the ‘Wolf Review’,…
…England, the Department for Education has supported new institutional models designed to enable profound employer engagement across the curriculum. Around the world, employer engagement has become a mainstream element of…
