Education and Employers

Raising Aspirations

…in school and within the community. For Growing To Be Great to succeed, a fundamental shift needed to take place. Our strategy to raise aspirations Children needed to believe that…

Shaping young people’s career choices for the shifting demands of the jobs market

By David Baldwin, Headteacher Churchill Community College and Board member The Careers & Enterprise Company The latest report by Education and & Employers is an interesting and important contribution to…

Socioeconomic status and the career aspirations of Australian school students: Testing enduring assumptions

…occupational prestige, and occupational justification. We found fewer differences by year level and by SES than expected. Our analyses demonstrate both the complexity of students’ career aspirations and some of…

Evaluation of the Young Apprenticeships Programme: Outcomes for Cohort Three

…who completed the YA programme progressed into further education or training and 19% had progressed into an Apprenticeship which is comparable to the previous two cohorts (21 % in Cohort…

Academies, American style

…comparable groups of young people, distributed initially by random assignment, from High School to age 26 found that graduates of the US Career Academies programme earned 11% more than comparable…

Inspiring Women in Music – singers to sound engineers – motivate at the Royal Albert Hall

…Hall Indy Vidyalankara Director of Comms Sony Music UK Jan Younghusband Head of Commissioning Music TV BBC Music LIV Singer What is the Inspiring Women campaign? The national Inspiring Women…

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

…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. Anthony Mann (Director of Policy…

‘A longitudinal study of work-based, adult-youth mentoring’

…by noting the failure of surrounding literature to keep pace. Linnehan’s study aims to address the gaps in literature by comparing the attitudes and beliefs relating to school, work and…

How to make the most of employer engagement: six tips from the research for school and college staff

By Anthony Mann Over recent years, UK and international research has made a consistent and compelling case that the quantity and quality of employer engagement experienced by young people while…

Employer engagement in education: new advice for teachers from teachers

…findings come from a new report by the Education and Employers research team. It analyses the opinions of 390 British secondary school teachers on the value of 16 different employer…