Research Archive - Page 13 of 43 - Education and Employers

January 31, 2019

Boys on Track: Improving support for black Caribbean and free school meal-eligible white boys in London

January 31, 2019

By LKMco (published December 2018) This report from LKMco, commissioned by the London Greater Authority (GLA) examines how support for white free school meal-eligible (FSM) and black Caribbean boys across London can be improved. While pupils in London are more likely to achieve better outcomes at the end of their education than elsewhere in the […]

January 31, 2019

Social Mobility Barometer: Public attitudes to social mobility in the UK

January 31, 2019

By Social Mobility Commission (published December 2018) This report from the Social Mobility Commission examines public attitudes to social mobility in the UK. The report draws upon an online YouGov survey of over 5,520 UK adults across the UK, as well as a supplementary survey of 1,656 adults conducted in October 2018 and another survey […]

January 31, 2019

The impact of undergraduate degrees on early-career earnings

January 31, 2019

By Institute for Fiscal Studies and Department for Education (published November 2018) This report from the Department for Education (DfE) and Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) uses the new Longitudinal Educational Outcomes (LEO) administrative dataset to provide an estimate of the impact of Higher Education (HE) on the earnings of graduates at age 29 and […]

January 31, 2019

The contribution of realist evaluation to critical analysis of the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education competitions.

January 31, 2019

By Catherine Brentnall, Iván Diego Rodríguez and Nigel Culkin (published November 2018) This article explores the effectiveness of entrepreneurship education (EE), particularly the use of entrepreneurial competitions and competitive pedagogy, through a realist evaluation (RE). RE is an approach designed specifically to understand why particular complex programmes/interventions work. The approach assumes that programmes such as EE […]

January 31, 2019

Learning about Careers: Open data and Labour Market Intelligence

January 31, 2019

By Graham Attwell and Dr Deirdre Hughes (published November 2018). This article from Attwell and Hughes examines how labour market intelligence and information can be used in the current digital age to better understand the UK labour market. Labour market information (LMI) includes any quantitative or qualitative information on the labour market that can assist […]

January 31, 2019

Chain Effects 2018: The impact of academy chains on low-income pupils

January 31, 2019

By Merryn Hutchings and Becky Francis (published December 2018) This new report from the Sutton Trust is the fifth and final piece in their annual Chain Effects series, examining the impact of academy chains on the attainment of disadvantaged pupils. The academy programme was in launch in 2000 and has been promoted by successive governments […]

January 24, 2019

How do we prepare young people for a future world of work that we struggle to predict?

January 24, 2019

Studies show that the future of the UK labour market will be increasingly competitive and subject to emerging technological and environmental changes. Katy Hampshire (Director of Operations and Programmes) and Chris Percy (Careers research adviser) from Education and Employers presented to the British Council’s Policy Dialogue at the Education World Forum why employer engagement in education […]

January 23, 2019

Envisioning the Future of Education and Jobs: Trends, Data and Drawings.

January 23, 2019

On Wednesday 23 January, the OECD and Education and Employers launched a new report in Davos during the World Economic Forum: Envisioning the Future of Education and Jobs: Trends, Data and Drawings. The report looks at the future of education and jobs and the challenges and opportunities presented by the Fourth Industrial Revolution. It concluded that […]

January 23, 2019

Career-related learning in primary: The role of primary teachers and schools in preparing children for the future

January 23, 2019

By Dr Elnaz Kashefpakdel, Jordan Rehill and Dr Deirdre Hughes OBE. Download the report. This paper, commissioned by Teach First, provides evidence on the benefits of career development activities for children in the primary phase, and the range of teacher roles when delivering it. In doing so the research attempts to map what primary schools […]

December 19, 2018

What works? Career-related learning in primary schools

December 19, 2018

By Dr Elnaz Kashefpakdel, Jordan Rehill and Dr Deirdre Hughes OBE Download the report here. Research carried out by Education and Employers has been published in the latest Careers and Enterprise Company ‘What Works’ report. This paper draws together the existing evidence of the benefits of career-related learning in primary school. Starting career education early […]