Education and Employers

Number Partners: Impact Report

…their understanding of the world of work and participation in the classroom. Comments from teachers highlight the nature and significance of the additional benefits that accrue from pairing Number Partner…

Primary Futures: The future is bright

…the Future programme that the Education and Employers Taskforce has run since July 2012. By connecting primary school teachers and headteachers with more than 16,000 Inspiring the Future volunteers through…

Primary Guide to Employer Engagement

…between what they learn at school and the wider world. Drawing on relevant analysis and evaluations from the small number of robust studies available, it sets out what is known…

The State of Play: Employers, schools and the delivery of careers advice

…with insights to the world of work. Robust and efficient links between employers and education are essential to deliver on these agendas. In 2013, a Government Action Plan recommended that…

Key Issues in Employer Engagement in Education: Why it makes a difference and how to deliver at scale

By Dr Anthony Mann (Director of Policy and Research, Education and Employers). Governments around the world, with the strong encouragement of the OECD and other international agencies, are determined…

Girls, boys and career expectations

…that our schools could do more to better prepare young people for the world of work. More than one in two students reported that they had learned how to find…

Learning from Germany – a liaison of education and employment.

June 3, 1530 – 1730. Westminster, London. As youth unemployment has become the subject of ever greater concern around the world, interest has grown in those countries which appeared to…

Learning from Germany – a liaison of education and employment

As youth unemployment has become the subject of ever greater concern around the world, interest has grown in those countries which appeared to have bucked the trend. Germany has attracted…

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

…closer working between the worlds of education and employment, specifically in order to help young people make better sense of the complexity of contemporary careers, to navigate, with confidence, increasingly…

‘The challenges facing young women in apprenticeships’

…Encouraging schools and colleges to use their partnerships with employers to ensure teachers and careers guidance practitioners are up-to-date with their knowledge of the world of work. It is argued…