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May 21, 2020

Routes through Education into Employment as England Enters the 2020s

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 […]

May 21, 2020

Young people not in education, employment or training (NEET): Recent policy initiatives in England and their effects

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 […]

May 19, 2020

6th International Conference on Employer Engagement: Preparing Young People for the Future

May 19, 2020

#EEConf21 Thursday 1 July 2021 – Friday 2 July 2021 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 […]

May 18, 2020

Career Academies – Long-Term Impacts on Labor Market Outcomes, Educational Attainment, and Transitions to Adulthood

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 […]

May 15, 2020

Socioeconomic status and the career aspirations of Australian school students: Testing enduring assumptions

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 […]

May 11, 2020

Career education that works: an economic analysis using the British Cohort Study

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 […]

May 7, 2020

Working Well: How volunteering to help young people also boosts volunteers’ wellbeing

May 7, 2020

By Chris Percy and Martin Rogers. The Education and Employers Charity has been supporting people from the world of work to volunteer in schools and colleges since 2009. We know that such volunteering has considerable benefits for young people as well as benefits for employers, such as staff skills gain and saved training costs, among […]

May 4, 2020

The Role of Work Experience in the UK Higher Education Admissions Process

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 […]

April 28, 2020

Correspondence of children’s anticipated vocations, perceived competencies, and interests: Results from an Italian sample

April 28, 2020

Prime 2010 Italy Journal of Vocational Behavior 77 (2010) 58–62 Dominic R. Primé Laura Nota Lea Ferrari Donna E. Palladino Schultheiss Salvatore Soresi Terence J.G. Tracey The results obtained from this study indicate that there is little correspondence between children’s anticipated occupations and their current interests and competence perceptions (i.e., self-efficacy). The result calls into […]

April 21, 2020

Children’s occupational knowledge: a conceptual framework and measure

April 21, 2020

Children’s occupational knowledge: a conceptual framework and measure By Rachel Gali Cinamon · Michal Yeshayahu April 2020 International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance https://doi.org/10.1007/s10775-020-09425-4 The paper presents a conceptualization of children’s knowledge about the world of work and offers a new measure developed to measure the concept. The basic assumption of the study […]