Education and Employers

Research digest

Keep up to date with the latest research news from around the world: Our free monthly research digest combines the latest research, reports and publications worldwide. It also has details…

How do young people’s dreams for the future compare with reality later in life?

…hearing about the job from someone actually doing it visiting their school – something we need to change. Read more: BBC News ‘How do career dreams really work out?’…

Work experience favours independent-school pupils

…new research suggests that those who attend independent schools are much more likely to gain real benefits from it than their state-sector counterparts. Read the full Times Educational Supplement story….

Disadvantaged students don’t lack aspiration

…biggest problem. A gap has exists between their aspirations and their understanding of how to realise them, a new Glasgow University study shows. Read the full Times Educational Supplement story….

Children ‘locked’ out of work by jobless parents

Tens of thousands of London children are “trapped” in homes where no adult has ever worked. New statistics show the number of London homes where no one has ever held…

Gender Stereotypes in Early Childhood: A Literature Review

…in later life. As our Drawing the Future report found, four times as many boys wanted to become engineers compared to girls and nearly twice the number of boys wanted…

Belonging, Believing, Achieving with Primary Futures in Aberdeen

On Wednesday 16th January, staff from Bramble Brae Primary School in Aberdeen organised their first Primary Futures event. Over 30 volunteers from the world of work took part and spoke…

Primary Futures only primary partner with National Careers Week

…to engage progressively in a wide range of experiences of transitions and the world of work. Children should have encounters with the world of work from the age of five…

New primary school pilots link classroom learning with the world of work

Our new primary school case studies link classroom learning for 5 – 11 year olds with the world of work and real life. Primary Futures has worked with the National…

Hunt says children – especially girls – should learn about world of work from age 7

…people to do work experience while they were at school. It was essential, he argued, to prepare young people for the world of work. Read the full article: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/give-girls-career-advice-before-the-age-of-10-says-shadow-education-secretary-10077672.html …