This online library provides a comprehensive repository of the different and effective approaches to employer engagement and careers education. Developed over the last decade it brings together the latest thinking with selected research published over the past 40 years for the benefit of researchers, academics and policy makers.
Free to access and searchable by keyword, it features summaries of a wide range of studies with abstracts and links to the full reports. With research articles and reports from leading figures and education bodies, you can examine issues such as employer-led learning, youth employment, career related learning in primary schools, and social mobility, as well as information on gender, ethnicity, and specific subject study such as STEM.
The main library is complemented by an extensive online video collection and a physical library. The video collection comprises over 150 videos of researchers discussing their work and its implications for policy and practice, together with conference presentations and seminars.
June 8, 2020
June 8, 2020
Trisha Fettes, Karen Evans & Elnaz Kashefpakdel This paper focuses on how generic skills can be developed to enable young adults to best utilise them in making transitions into the labour market. Drawing on the literature and a Commercial Education Trust study of practices which encourage employer engagement in skills development, it is argued that […]
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June 2, 2020
June 2, 2020
Another look at rural-nonrural differences in students’ educational aspirations Journal of Research in Rural Education, Winter, 1993, Vol. 9, No.3, 170-178 Emil J. Haller, Cornell University Sarah J. Virkler, University of Buffalo This 1993 journal article explored the aspirations of rural and nonrural young people in the USA. It concluded that socio economic status […]
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June 1, 2020
June 1, 2020
Participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is an international priority for government, industry and the science education policy and practice community. There is widespread concern that participation in STEM needs to be improved for reasons of both national economic competitiveness and social equity. The first ASPIRES study tracked the development of young people’s […]
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May 25, 2020
May 25, 2020
Jill Anderson, Harvard Graduate School of Education – 2014 The Pathways to Prosperity Project at HGSE’s original report revealed the struggles of young people to attain employment in America, despite many good jobs going unfilled, and helped launch a national conversation about the goals and structure of American high schools. In, 2011 the Pathways to […]
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May 21, 2020
May 21, 2020
Ken Roberts, 2019 Abstract: Throughout the 1980s and 90s there was international interest in the UK’s extensive experience (which began in the 1970s) with measures to alleviate youth unemployment. Today the UK attracts international attention on account of its low rates of youth unemployment and NEET, its (still) relatively rapid education-to-work transitions, and (according to […]
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May 21, 2020
May 21, 2020
By Sue Maguire First Published November 3, 2015 https://doi.org/10.1177/1745499915612186 While policy-makers in Britain can justifiably lay claim to creating the term NEET to define young people who do not engage in formal learning, training or employment, the high number who fall into, and remain in, this category continues to challenge them. This, in part, is […]
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May 18, 2020
May 18, 2020
James J. Kemple with Cynthia J. Willner – 2008 A longitudinal study of the US careers academies programme. It shows that young people who enrol in the initiative, where they work closely with employers over the last two years of school study, receive a significant and sustained boost into the labour market, earning 11% more […]
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May 15, 2020
May 15, 2020
Jennifer Gore, Kathryn Holmes, Max Smith, Erica Southgate, Jim Albright Published online: 14 March 2015 Abstract Recent Australian government targets for higher education participation have produced a flurry of activity focused on raising the aspirations of students from low socioeconomic status (SES) backgrounds. In this paper we test two key assumptions underpinning much of this […]
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May 11, 2020
May 11, 2020
Elnaz Kashefpakdel & Christian Percy, Education and Employers, Journal of Education and Work – 2016 Many scholars and policy-makers believe that changes in the education system and labour market over recent decades have created a complex world for young people; and that this can partly be addressed by enhanced career education while individuals are at […]
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May 4, 2020
May 4, 2020
The report examines the range of partnerships and links that secondary and special schools across Wales have with employers. It considers the range of learners’ experiences and the characteristics of effective links between schools and employers. The report also examines how senior leaders in schools are starting to consider how to plan for the cross-cutting […]
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