December 15, 2016
December 15, 2016
By Dr Jennifer DeWitt, Research Fellow at King’s College London What did you want to be when you grew up? What were your aspirations when you were at school? A ballerina? A fire fighter? An astronaut? For most of us, our aspirations are deeply connected with how we see ourselves now and in the future. […]
Read moreNovember 28, 2016
November 28, 2016
Throughout the year at Education and Employers we provide resources relevant to employer engagement in education, drawing on work from UK and international settings. Our research page is one of the most visited sections of our website and here we look at the most viewed materials from 2016. Our research library is always growing, if […]
Read moreNovember 16, 2016
November 16, 2016
By Julia Bennett, Head of Research and Policy at the Crafts Council. A quick online search swiftly reveals that the ability to interpret ideas and data, to problem solve and to trial solutions are exactly the kind of soft skills sought by most employers across the labour market. Schools have traditionally offered young people the […]
Read moreAugust 4, 2016
August 4, 2016
View the full picture library from the conference here. July 21 and 22 2016 saw the coming together of key thinkers from around the globe for the International Conference on Employer Engagement in Education and Training. The conference, jointly hosted by Education and Employers and the Edge Foundation, aimed to present accessible research to be […]
Read moreJune 20, 2016
June 20, 2016
By Louise Archer (Professor of Sociology of Education, King’s College London) Professor Louise Archer discusses the findings from a report based on 13,421 Year 11 students regarding their opinions and experiences of careers education and work experience. What did the report find? 63% of students had received any form of careers education 57% of students […]
Read moreMay 25, 2016
May 25, 2016
By Anthony Mann Over recent years, UK and international research has made a consistent and compelling case that the quantity and quality of employer engagement experienced by young people while in school or college makes a significant difference to how well they do in the world of work in their twenties. Education and Employers Research works […]
Read moreMay 6, 2016
May 6, 2016
By Ingrid Schoon, University College London Institute of Education. Email: I.Schoon@ucl.ac.uk “Most young people, especially those who do not follow an academic route, are ‘overlooked’” by current policy structure (House of Lords Paper 120, 2016) Current policy structure ignores the needs of young people who adopt the traditional work-focused route to independent adulthood. Successive governments have focused […]
Read moreMarch 1, 2016
March 1, 2016
In this blog, conference chair Anthony Mann explains the ambition of the conference and encourages scholars and researchers to join international discussions and offer a paper. The call for papers for the London Conference on Employer Engagement in Education and Training is open until 31 March. This summer will see an unprecedented coming together of […]
Read moreFebruary 15, 2016
February 15, 2016
Book Review: Our Kids: The American Dream in Crisis by Robert D. Putnam, New York: Simon & Schuster By Rachael McKeown Robert Putnam is a world renowned social scientist, famously publishing on the decline of civic engagement within American society and elevating the topic of social capital within policy circles. In his book Bowling Alone […]
Read moreFebruary 11, 2016
February 11, 2016
By Anthony Mann, Director of Policy and Research, Education and Employers Taskforce, and Steven Jones, Senior Lecturer, University of Manchester, in Engineering UK 2016. It is now more than fifty years since the British state first acted to enable schools to bring workplace experience into the schooling of young people. The 1963 Newsom Report paved […]
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