Education and Employers

The Employability Challenge

…definitions for employability skills (over 100); noting that, although there is no agreement, they “are in practice quite similar”. They then synthesize all of them into one, new, overarching definition….

Helping Young People Succeed: How Employers Can Support Careers Education – Increasing and Improving Employer Involvement in Providing Young People With Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance

…government action to reduce red tape, initiate accredited recognition of employer volunteering and support the development of new offerings. Download Helping young people succeed: How employers can support careers education…

Mentoring and Young People: A Literature Review

…employers and the mentors themselves were: “building up a set of psycho-social skills as ‘exceptional adults’”; a “more rapid integration of new employees”; “better management of stress”; “improved performance”‘ and…

Closing the Gap: How Employers Can Change the Way Young People See Apprenticeships

…of effective Swiss practice matching young people to the right Apprenticeship and a new table setting out perceived value to young people of employer contacts, family ties and public information…

The Economic Case for Language Learning and the Role of Employer Engagement

…billion ‘tax on trade’ for the UK. The report also introduces Inspiring the Future as a new free way for people who use languages at work to volunteer to share…

Defining Effective Employer Engagement

…meant by ‘effective’ employer engagement, it will not be possible for the Taskforce, working with partners, to benchmark current practice and assess if new initiatives, campaigns and communications have any…

Work-Based Learning and Higher Education: A Research Perspective

…learning in high school on the attainment levels of college students enrolled in four year degrees in New England. The authors analysed the answers on the ‘Higher Education – Students…

Career Academies: Long-Term Impacts on Labor Market Outcomes, Educational Attainment and Transitions to Adulthood

…controlled field trial, which is rare. Its newest findings are based on a survey carried out with 1,428 students (bearing a very high retention rate of 81% and an even…

Evaluation of Increased Flexibility for 14 to 16 Year Olds Programme: Outcomes for the First Cohort

A report by Golden, S., O’Donnell, L., Benton, T. and Rudd, P. (National Foundation for Educational Research) In response to The Green Paper: 14-19: extending opportunities, raising standards (2002), the…

Inspiring Governance

…and governing bodies, as well as for employers wanting to run programmes for their staff serving as governors. Our aims for the service are to: Increase the number of volunteers,…