Research Archive - Page 24 of 43 - Education and Employers

February 8, 2017

School to work transitions in a changing labour market: Implications for schools and colleges. Department for Education Research Symposium

February 8, 2017

The world of work in 2017 is defined by change: new types of working (in the ‘gig’ economy of zero hour contract work and portfolio careers); rapid automation (ranging from the proliferation of self-service machines in supermarkets to self-driving cars); and, extended with people starting paid employment later and working longer into old age. […]

January 30, 2017

Contemporary transitions: Young Britons reflect on life after secondary school and college

January 30, 2017

By Dr Anthony Mann, Dr Elnaz T. Kashefpakdel, Jordan Rehill and Professor Prue Huddleston Read the full report here. This report, published with support from Lifeskills created with Barclays, sets out findings from a survey of 1,744 young British adults aged 19-24. The survey undertaken on behalf of Education and Employers by YouGov investigates the experiences of respondents as […]

January 20, 2017

Towards an employer engagement toolkit: British teachers’ perspectives on the comparative efficacy of work-related learning activities

January 20, 2017

By Dr Anthony Mann, James Dawkins and Rachael McKeown Read the full report here. towards-an-employer-engagement-toolkit This study explores the perceptions of 390 UK secondary school staff about the value of 16 different work-related and employer engagement activities which are commonly undertaken by pupils between the ages 12 to 16 and explicitly investigates what schools staff think about the impact of […]

January 19, 2017

How important is providing careers-related information for students?

January 19, 2017

By Sandra McNally, Professor in the School of Economics at the University of Surrey. The type and quality of education matters for labour market prospects, as reflected in future employment and earnings. There is often dissatisfaction expressed with the careers information and advice provided to students at school and beyond. It’s a matter of common […]

January 18, 2017

Launch of the Education and Employers Research Twitter account

January 18, 2017

Today, we launched the new Education and Employers Research twitter account @Edu_Eresearch. Follow us for: Regular updates on our own leading-edge research into the impact and delivery of employer engagement in education in the UK and internationally. Updates to our free online research library containing summaries of key research projects and papers on the topic […]

December 19, 2016

Schools and the twenty-first century labour market: perspectives on structural change

December 19, 2016

By Dr Anthony Mann (Director of Policy and Research, Education and Employers) and Prue Huddleston (Professor Emeritus, University of Warwick). In the British Journal of Guidance & Counselling This study investigates the UK youth labour market, looking at how changes within it have (negatively) affected the economic prospects of young Britons. Considered collectively, no generation […]

December 15, 2016

Why some kids are more likely to follow their dreams….

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. […]

December 2, 2016

The impact of career development activities on student attitudes towards school utility: an analysis of data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development’s Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA)

December 2, 2016

By Dr Elnaz T. Kashefpakdel (Senior Researcher, Education and Employers), Dr Anthony Mann (Director of Policy and Research, Education and Employers) and Matteo Schleicher This study seeks to analyse whether greater teenage engagement in school-mediated career development activities, which include elements of direct exposure to the working world can be associated with more positive attitudes towards […]

December 1, 2016

‘Social Class Background and the School-to-Work Transition’

December 1, 2016

By Jeremy Staff and Jeylan T. Mortimer Read the full article here. This chapter sits within a growing canon of both US and UK scholarship analysing the impact of term-time paid employment on both short and long term educational attainment, as well as long term economic outcomes. In this essay, Mortimer and Staff analyse the […]

November 30, 2016

The importance of experience of the world of work in admissions to health-based undergraduate courses at Russell Group universities: A desktop review

November 30, 2016

By Jordan Rehill (Research Assistant, Education and Employers) This study explores the admissions requirements of three healthcare related courses of study for their 2017/18 intake: Medicine, Dentistry and Nursing. It asks whether these Russell Group Higher Education Institutions (HEIs) expect their undergraduate applicants to have undertaken work experience or secured related work-based experiences prior to application, […]