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Research Digest - January 2021
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Notices
6th International Conference on Employer Engagement: Preparing Young People for the Future
The conference will focus 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 will focus on developing and capturing the skill requirements within the changing labour market and how such interventions can support young people as part of the response to Covid-19. It will also seek to reflect on reforms and policy shifts concerning education and training and employer engagement internationally. We welcome papers from a range of organisations. The deadline for submissions is Wednesday, 31st March 2021. Accepted papers and proposals will be notified by Friday, 30th April 2021.
Call for papers live
What will education look like in the future?
Looking ahead and beyond the current pandemic, how do we envisage education changing?
Events of the past year have accelerated our increasing familiarity and use of technology and online learning, making us wonder whether our education systems are keeping pace. What new possibilities does this present? And what are the challenges to some of the structures we have in place now, for example, in higher education? And crucially, how do we best prepare our young people for the future, while at the same time ensuring that we have the workforce we need?
January 28, 2021, 3:00 PM GMT
Publications
The value of volunteering: Volunteering in education and productivity at work
Chris Percy & Martin Rogers
Drawing on a survey of 1,026 volunteers, detailed volunteer case studies and the broader empirical literature, the report provides reveals the ‘mirror benefits’ volunteering in schools and colleges for volunteers from the world of work.
Leadership and careers provision: A new dawn
Deirdre Hughes
The paper builds on recent announcements in the Comprehensive Spending Review (Treasury, 2020), a literature review of leadership and careers provision, and 13 in-depth interviews with senior managers from further education (FE) and careers sector in England to discuss how leaders can best create career pathways to success for young people and adults during volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) time.
Elnaz Kashefpakdel & Tom Ravenscroft
The report utilises the British Cohort Study to build on longitudinal research evidence that tracks outcomes over multiple years. It focuses on younger children to explore links between essential skills and other outcomes.
Lessons for Education from COVID-19: A Policy Maker’s Handbook for More Resilient Systems
OECD
The handbook provides practice lessons for policymakers to drive education into a new and better normalcy.
Change agents: Emerging evidence on instructional leadership at the middle tier
David Childress, Chloé Chimier, Charlotte Jones, Ella Page & Barbara Tournier
The paper investigates the middle part of education systems – the regional, district, and sub-district level – as a critical part of the ‘machine’ for quality teaching and learning at scale.
Career Ready? How schools can better prepare young people for working life in the era of COVID-19
Anthony Mann, Vanessa Denis & Chris Percy
The working paper analysis how secondary schools can optimise young people’s preparation for adult employment at a time of extreme labour market turbulence. How young people (i) think about their futures in work and what they do to (ii) explore and (iii) experience workplaces within and outside of education is consistently associated with better than expected employment outcomes in adulthood.
Navigating the crisis towards a human-centred future of work
ILO
This report examines how the COVID-19 pandemic is impacting labour markets in the Asia–Pacific region, with the pre-crisis picture on the disconnect between economic growth, decent work and inclusive growth in many countries.
Skills shortages in the UK economy
Edge Foundation
This bulletin provides overviews of publications that have examined trends of underlying changes and challenges between education systems and the labour market emerging before the lockdown.
Unlimited Potential: Report of the Commission on Gender Stereotypes in Early Childhood
Fawcett
The report draws on existing literature, 26 in-depth interviews with parents of young children and survey of 1,280 parents and 1,027 practitioners who work in early childhood education to build a new consensus on the harm that the gender stereotypes experienced in childhood can do throughout their lives and mobilise society to challenge them through a positive blueprint for change.
Comments
An end of year round-up: how volunteers have been helping to inspire young people
Education and Employers
Maire Daley Kevin Orr & Joel Petrie
Learning loss or learning disruption?
Sinéad Harmey
Missing in the Margins: Estimating the Scale of the COVID-19 Attendance Crisis
Hailly T.N. Korman, Bonnie O'Keefe & Matt Repka
Events
Research conference for careers practitioners: Demystifying research – encouraging curiosity
February 25, 2021, 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM GMT
CDI -Career Development Institute
An ecology of life and learning: Discourses, dialogue and diversity in biographical research
March 4th - 7th, 2021
ESREA – European Society for Research on the Education of Adults - Life History and Biography Network
Tech fest conference: Innovation, ethics and practice, social media and digital skills
March 29th - 30th, 2021, 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM GMT
CDI - Career Development Institute
We believe no child should be constrained by stereotypes or the expectations of others. We know that if young people hear firsthand about the world of work, they work harder, get better grades and are more likely to break down barriers.
They should have the chance to start as early as possible, and that is why we launched the national I am #InspiringTheFuture campaign.
Any views expressed in the publications featured in this newsletter are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of Education and Employers.
