…in the design of school curricula. These included skills gaps, especially those referred to as the ‘softer skills’, associated, for example, with how individuals communicate effectively with colleagues and customers…
…as ‘indicators’) which schools can influence in order to better prepare their young people for adult working life. The approach adopted is primarily designed to allow schools to identify students…
…of resources. In later years, reducing the funding for pastoral and extra-curricular activities was an equally unhelpful policy direction. The fundamental challenge in designing careers education systems is to find…
…key principle of curriculum design. Our work with the Business and Community Ambassador led to us making the link with Primary Futures, which is run by the charity Education and…
…Labour to the Coalition. London: Tufnell Press. Hatcher, R. (2011) Social class and schooling: differentiation or democracy? In Cole, M. (ed) Education, Equality and Human Rights. (3rd edition). London: Routledge…
…of workplace membership bodies representing some 200,000 owners of small businesses (David Pollard of the Federation of Small Businesses), 135,000 professionals working in human resources (Peter Cheese of the Chartered…
…whereas only one-third of pupils recalling no teenage contacts agreed. A simple test of statistical significance checked whether these results were masks for other social characteristics and ruled this out….
The Education and Employers Taskforce is sponsoring its first research conference to bring together leading academics and analysts from the fields of education policy and human resource management to share…
…75 million jobs may be lost as companies shift to more automation. In less than a decade, most workplace tasks will be done by machines rather than humans, according to…
…strengthening the evidence base on strategic skills shortages in Europe, particularly in the STEM subjects, and the importance of business-schools links as a means of securing the human resource essential…
