Education and Employers

Insights and Inspiration: Exploring the impact of guest speakers in schools

…futures and what it might take to reach them, as well as broaden students’ horizons to see the world outside of their classroom and local community. In this study, we’ve…

The Role of Work Experience in the UK Higher Education Admissions Process

…impact of partnerships with employers and of work-related experiences on learners’ understanding of the world of work Local authorities and regional consortia should: Ensure that local curriculum planning takes good…

Career education that works: an economic analysis using the British Cohort Study

…recent decades have created a complex world for young people; and that this can partly be addressed by enhanced career education while individuals are at school. This paper draws on…

Lessons from employer led learning

…a rapidly changing world? Research commissioned by the Commercial Education Trust (CET) and the Edge Foundation suggests that the innovative approach taken by institutions known as Career Colleges could offer…

Implementing employability skills frameworks in schools

…and systematise the skills and attributes that contribute to this complex definition of employability and identify skills that are important in the world of work. In school contexts, Employability Skills…

Partnerships with employers in secondary and special schools

…impact of partnerships with employers and of work-related experiences on learners’ understanding of the world of work Local authorities and regional consortia should: Ensure that local curriculum planning takes good…

Working Well: How volunteering to help young people also boosts volunteers’ wellbeing

By Chris Percy and Martin Rogers. The Education and Employers Charity has been supporting people from the world of work to volunteer in schools and colleges since 2009. We know…

Socioeconomic status and the career aspirations of Australian school students: Testing enduring assumptions

…the world’. From as early as 9 years old, the vast majority of students expressed interest in ‘real’ occupations. Most did so with a reasonable level of certainty (71% certain,…

The capacity to aspire to higher education: ‘It’s like making them do a play without a script’

…capacities to realise them. Bourdieu’s theories of cultural capital, habitus and field provide a supplementary theoretical framework, which draws attention to the complex relationships between socio-cultural background and life-world experiences…

Our values

…act with integrity in all that we do. Inspiring: This value stands for what our charity is about, linking the world of work with education, to inspire children from all…