#EEConf21
Thursday 1 July 2021 – Friday 2 July 2021
Register now – Tickets cost £35
The conference
This virtual conference is hosted by Education and Employers in partnership with the Edge Foundation. It focuses on employer engagement in general education, technical and vocational education and training, and the extent to which such interventions adequately prepare young people for the rapidly changing world of work. In particular, attention focuses on the need to develop and capture the skill requirements within the changing labour market and how such interventions can support young people as part of the response to Covid-19. The conference also seeks to reflect on reforms and policy shifts in relation to education and training and employer engagement internationally. The entire conference will be hosted in English.
The audience
By going virtual in 2021 the event has become accessible to delegates internationally at the click of a button, allowing for greater participation and engaging networking opportunities with a bigger, broader community of fellow researchers in the education sphere. The conference welcomes researchers, practitioners, employers, awarding organisations and policymakers.
The Programme
The two-day conference includes contributions from keynote speakers, panel debates, research presentations, workshops, and case study presentations. There are also opportunities for virtual networking with other delegates.
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Here are a few examples of papers speakers will explore:
- Employer Engagement: Boosting Attainment and Wellbeing
- Better Prepared: Essential skills and employment outcomes for young people
- Work-based education in Australian VET
- Career-related learning in primary schools: A collaborative city-wide approach
- Employer engagement for Youth Transitions: Crafted for a COVID-impacted world
- Cascading the Industrial Mentors Model for University–Industry Interaction. Benefits and Barriers
- The role of 14 to 16 delivery in colleges in supporting Education, Engagement and Employability
- Efficient opportunities to engage employers within the curriculum: an example of the practice of the University of Latvia
- Employer centricity in a decentralised world
- Levelling the playing field: vocational education as a prestigious pathway
- Specialised practice and the vocational curriculum
- Exploring barriers and the way forward in managing Malaysian industry-institution partnership
- Career-related learning in primary schools: A collaborative city-wide approach
- Employer Engagement in Higher Education: Developing student employability with two UK case studies
Book Your Ticket
Tickets covering the full two days cost £35 per person.
Register now
If delegates are unable to join the live sessions due to time differences or prior commitments, recordings of the sessions will be available apx 24 hours later.
Attendees at the 5th International Conference commented:
The sessions I attended achieved a perfect mix of practitioners and researchers, and the presence of employer bodies and policy makers gave a real sense of ‘something happening’. The Q&A following my own presentation was particularly useful because it reflected this broad mix of delegates and offered a fresh perspective on my work. It also resulted directly in a contract that kick-started our new social enterprise, UP2UNI. This year’s conference is already in my diary! – Dr Susan McGrath, UCL Institute of Education
The International Conference on Employer Engagement in Education and Training in 2018 provided an all too rare opportunity for researchers, practitioners and policymakers to discuss common issues together. The wide range of presenters and speakers allowed refreshingly candid and focused discussions about the future of work and learning and so I very much look forward to the next one! – Kevin Orr, Professor of Work and Learning and an Associate Dean at the University of Huddersfield
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