Education and Employers

Book Review: Our Kids by Robert Putnam

…community … Typically, community schools include youth activities at all hours and programs to engage parents and community members actively in the educational process as well as to link children…

Schools and the twenty-first century labour market: perspectives on structural change

By Dr Anthony Mann (Director of Policy and Research, Education and Employers) and Prue Huddleston (Professor Emeritus, University of Warwick). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFGcyt8jACM In the British Journal of Guidance & Counselling …

Careers talks ‘boost future earnings’

…for a speed career networking morning, to inspire girls to consider careers in these sector. Read the research report: https://www.educationandemployers.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/Career-education-that-works-an-economic-analysis-using-the-British-Cohort-Study.compressed.pdf BBC News story: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-36312068 TES news story: https://www.tes.com/news/school-news/breaking-news/careers-talks-can-add-ps2000-pupils-future-salaries-research-finds …

Joint Dialogue: How are Schools Developing Real Employability Skills

…instance, communications. But there are two challenges – the number of overlapping studies and the broad definition of these skills. This report takes a summative approach, aiming to come up…

The Impact of Entrepreneurship Education on Entrepreneurship Competencies and Intentions: An Evaluation of the Junior Achievement Student Mini-Company Program

…Students completed both the E-scan and survey before the programme started to measure pre-treatment competencies and students completed the E-scan test regularly map changes in self-perception during the course of…

Socialised social capital? The capacity of schools to use careers provision to compensate for social capital deficiencies among teenagers

…family-based networks? Can schools compensate for comparative weaknesses in such ‘real’ networks? Or alternatively, do they serve to extenuate inequalities? The chapter explores directly the extent to which the education…

The Lifetime Skills Guarantee – choosing or gambling?

…target groups and enable professionals and the third sector to help them shape their own aspirations and choose their routes to success. https://primaryfutures.org/ https://www.inspiringthefuture.org/about/ 1 https://www.gov.uk/government/speeches/pms-skills-speech-29-september-2020 2https://www.princes-trust.org.uk/about-the-trust/news-views/aspiration-gap-research 3 https://www.educationandemployers.org/research/aspirations-and-the-future-of-work/…

Primary Futures comes to Davos

…jobs that they would like to do when they grow up, this table shows the results. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0EQq-4Kccpg Strikingly, the jobs they chose were based on solely on the jobs their…

Widen their Horizons: an article in ASCL’s Leader magazine

…http://tinyurl.com/zzuao3k Nothing in Common: The career aspirations of young Britons mapped against projected labour market demand 2010–2020 http://tinyurl.com/zq6jtm3 To read the article on the ASCL website follow the link: http://www.leadermagazine.co.uk/articles/widen_their_horizons/…

The Disconnection is Real: Organising careers education in a college: a personal view

…are willing to talk to young people about their job and career route. [i] See Institute of Physics report: http://www.iop.org/education/teacher/support/girls_physics/review/page_41597.html [ii] See https://www.asdan.org.uk/courses/programmes [iii] See https://www.crestawards.org/ [iv] See https://www.young-enterprise.org.uk/what-we-do/ …