The What is to be gained through partnership? report pulls together robust evidence about the benefits of education and employer engagement to young people, schools and employers, including recent research:
- Exploring the link between social mobility and employer engagement supporting the achievement, aspiration and progress of young people into further study and/ or work
- Demonstrating that the majority of robust studies show a positive impact on pupil attainment
- Showing how volunteering with schools is a cost effective means of developing core staff competencies for employers
- Highlighting the significant impact made by employee representatives as school governors in the UK
- longitudinal research from the US demonstrating 11% higher wages eight years after leaving school, earned by young people who had had experience of intense work-related learning compared to a control group