A report by Ipsos MORI, commissioned by the Qualifications and Curriculum Authority (QCA) This study aimed to discover what kind of work-related learning (WRL) pupils were receiving in English schools;…
The Education and Employers Taskforce research team are regularly commissioned by partner organisations to undertake research on questions related to employer engagement in education. Over recent years, the team has…
…completed the engineering traineeship programme between 1995 and 1999. The response rate was 72%. In all years, male pupils made up the majority of course participants. Overall 71% of respondents…
…and with more years of schooling to their names and yet face record levels of unemployment, too often losing out to older workers in the competition for employment. This new…
…difficult for young people to compete for available employment. How should our schools respond to the demands of the twenty first century labour market? Eight perspectives Edited by Anthony Mann…
…are most likely to dominate these service Apprenticeships, where pay, qualifications and career development prospects are comparatively low. Women represent the majority of participants for the three lowest paid Apprenticeships…
…UK Commission for Employment and Skills, Paul Comyn from the International Labor Organisation, Robert Schwartz from Harvard University, Steven Bainbridge from CEDEFOP -European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training,…
…in the 2008/9 school year, more than independent and state school sixth form colleges combined. The majority of these students are known to belong to the bottom three socio-economic groups,…
…organisations have jointly commissioned a review of evidence to identify the most effective types of careers education and to determine the current state of careers education at English state schools….
…writer and local parent Jessica Hynes compared the ‘What’s my Line?’ session with the pupils and six volunteers. Jessica is famous for television comedies such as W1A, 2012 and Spaced….
