October 21, 2010
October 21, 2010
This Taskforce report published on 15 October 2010 pulls together robust UK and international evidence on employer engagement. What is to be gained through partnership? provides high quality evidence about the benefits of education and employer engagement to young people, schools and employers, including recent research: from the US demonstrating 11% higher wages eight years after […]
Read moreOctober 21, 2010
October 21, 2010
The paper highlights research in four areas – staff development, staff engagement, recruitment, and corporate reputation – and concludes with a case study demonstrating how volunteering can be beneficial for business. Findings show that there are significant benefits for employers and employees across the four research areas from engaging with education and young people. Owing […]
Read moreOctober 15, 2010
October 15, 2010
The point of partnership: understanding employer engagement in education University of Warwick, 15th October Watch Dr Anthony Mann talk about the objectives of the conference About the conference Keynote speakers: Prof. Hugh Lauder University of Bath, Editor of the Journal of Education and Work Hans van der Loo Vice President, European Union Liaison, Shell International The […]
Read moreSeptember 7, 2010
September 7, 2010
Increasing and improving employer involvement in providing young people with careers education, information, advice and guidance. Between January and April 2010, a small team from Deloitte’s Education and Skills practice worked on behalf of the Education and Employers’ charity to conduct research in order to develop implementable proposals based on credible analysis about increasing and […]
Read moreAugust 22, 2010
August 22, 2010
A report by Hamill, L. and Hodgkinson, L., Proceedings of ICE – Civil Engineering, 163, pp.131-136 This report examines results of questionnaires and interviews conducted with UK education-business partnerships (EBPs), university students and engineering companies and consultants, questioning the extent to which pre-16 work experience (WEX) affects recruitment of young people into civil engineering courses […]
Read moreJune 22, 2010
June 22, 2010
A report by YouGov Plc, commissioned by the EDGE Foundation This annual survey measures the extent and type of education-employer partnerships around the UK, looking at the perceptions of the value of employer engagement, levels of awareness about the opportunities and types of activities available, any barriers to partnership and perceptions about vocational qualifications Apprenticeships […]
Read moreJune 21, 2010
June 21, 2010
A report by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development This report argues for government support of vocational education training (VET) to balance skills shortages and gaps in the labour market with the needs of employers and students in the context of the global financial crisis. Career guidance is cited as one of the key ways in […]
Read moreJune 21, 2010
June 21, 2010
A report by Pauline Wade, Caroline Bergeron, Karen White, David Teeman, David Sims and Palak Mehta, NFER This report evaluates the Pathfinder pilot, a programme run that was across seven local authorities in 2010 to enable pupils to learn about career options available to them. The programme included workplace visits, in-school career insight talks with […]
Read moreJune 19, 2010
June 19, 2010
A report by Deloitte UK and the Education and Employers Taskforce This report is based on 100 interviews with people from a broad cross-section of organisations working with employer engagement: teachers, leaders, students, Education Business Partnership Organisations (EBPOs), employers, employer organisations and professional associations. On-line surveys were carried out with 500 young people (clustered round […]
Read moreJune 1, 2010
June 1, 2010
A report by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES) This report examines shortages in employability skills as a problem for those entering work and employers and details recent policy changes in three areas: training, assessment and funding, as well as seeking levers in the existing system that could be adapted to improve shortcomings.In […]
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