Education and Employers

What Is To Be Gained Through Partnership?

This Taskforce report published on 15 October 2010 pulls together robust UK and international evidence on employer engagement. What is to be gained through partnership? provides high quality evidence about…

A Follow-Up Randomised Controlled Trial Evaluation of the Effects of Business in the Community’s Time To Read Mentoring Programme

…a number of internationally-conducted systematic reviews of other mentoring programmes, and make a significant contribution to this evidence base as one of the largest trials of volunteer mentoring using such…

The Maths We Need in Work

…the value of its application across a variety of jobs is sometimes less clear to both employers5 and employees. In workplaces, maths is often difficult to spot. It appears…

The implications of labour market change for schools and colleges

…findings from a collaborative project with Professor Prue Huddleston (University of Warwick). The presentation drew on interviews with eight leading international commentators on structural labour market change (including Andreas Schleicher,…

Lost in transition: VET, apprenticeships and entrepreneurship

…of BMW to put in place a scheme of apprentice-run companies within the company (ICF-GHK 2014, p. 26). But an obvious while truly revolutionary shift in the discussion has to…

Research events

…generating productive and insightful debates on education and employment. Recent events: 6th International Conference on Employer Engagement: Preparing Young People for the Future – access resources and recordings from the…

Victoria Lawrence

…to drive up employer engagement in schools. Prior to joining the Taskforce in 2016, Victoria worked for HSBC in their Financial Regulation department supporting clients and employees with International and…

Research sponsorship and bursaries

…education, employer engagement or work in areas that are of interests to the Edge Foundation and Education and Employers. We aim to support students to attend a national or international…

Educational disadvantage: How does England compare?

…investigate the socio-economic gap in secondary school pupils’ academic achievement. Using the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) 2015 dataset, the report investigates the academic performance of pupils that are…

Briefing Notes: The Skills Employers Want! Cedefop develops real-time skills intelligence by analysing online job vacancies.

…in certain sectors and regions have driven many employers and jobseekers online. Large international firms, particularly those in manufacturing and services, have increasingly taken advantages of the thousands of websites…