…unemployment high and rising, public money scarce and about to become scarcer, educational institutions under severe pressure, and the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES, 2009) offering a fresh…
…McCoshan is an Associate Fellow at the University of Warwick, Centre for Education and Industry. Most recently, he has been lead author of studies for the European Commission on VET…
…more useful in terms of helping them to decide on a careers, securing employment and getting into university compared to their peers at comprehensive state schools. Download the seminar presentation….
…the overarching problems they are sometimes assumed to be, the study found that a much more common situation is for young people from poorer backgrounds to hold aspirations higher than…
…on communication, awareness, capability and experience and geography. The report made some recommendations for overcoming these barriers, some of which were: establishing a single point of entry for engagement and…
A report by the Scottish Council for Research in Education (SCRE) based at the University of Glasgow (John C. Hall), commissioned by the Scottish Executive Enterprise and Lifelong Learning Department…
…young people who had had experience of intense work-related learning compared to a control group on significant impact made by employee representatives as school governors in the UK on how…
…studies. A first ‘sweep’ of the data was done in the autumn, the second in the spring and then the third in the summer, comparing outcomes for pupils participating in…
…placement as part of their school-based Vocational Education and Training in Schools (VETiS) programmes are compared with students who didn’t undertake a work placement, and the results set in the…
…and ability to ride the currents of post-industrial change. Raffo and Reeves argue that young people’s lives are characterised by an increasing complexity and uncertainty in terms of their apparent…
