Education and Employers

Visit our Schools: 18-22 October – Register today to take part!

The Visit our Schools website has just gone ‘live’ and you can now register online to take part in Visit our Schools week. Participating is completely free (for school/colleges and…

Perceptions of Vocational and Technical Qualifications

…of the qualifications than organisations with less than 49 employees. FSQs were valued higher by training providers with more than 2000 registered learners compared with training providers with fewer than…

Constructing the Future: How the skills needed for success in the workplace are changing

…necessary revised to complement changes in skill demands and digital learning. New technologies provide an opportunity to reshape vocational and on-the-job learning. Workers continually learn as they are exposed to…

Demand for highly skilled staff to grow says CBI/EDI

…skills, is sponsored by leading qualifications awarding body EDI. The survey was answered by 694 employers, which together employ over 2.4 million people and represent companies of all sizes and…

New research demonstrates the need for better education-employer engagement

…of 15,000 young people who had completed work experience, BITC’s 2007 survey of 400 school leaders, B-live’s survey of career aspirations highlghting a disjuncture between job goals and labour market…

Improving Middle School Student Engagement through Career-Relevant Instruction in the Core Curriculum

…subjects. CareerStart is a teacher-focused, school capacity-building strategy for career-relevant instruction, which teaches teachers how to communicate the relevance of core middle school subjects on careers and the labour market,…

Getting the UK Working

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is calling on the government to introduce a new tax incentive to encourage companies to take on young unemployed people, as part of a…

Education at a Glance 2018

OECD The OECD has published its annual Education at a Glance report, which compares various education statistics between its 36 member countries. The report shows the strong link in the…

University Aspirations 2018

…the cost of higher education, a concern that is particularly pronounced among young people from the least affluent families (58% compared with 41% in ‘high affluence’ households). The findings are…

Reform apprenticeships say MPs

Apprenticeships need reform to provide growth boosting skills say MPs. A Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) committee urges apprenticeship schemes to be more ambitious. Read the full story….