Education and Employers
Research Digest - December 2020

Notices

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

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Launch of report on the value of volunteering in education  Friday, January 8, 2021, 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM GMT.

The new research, in collaboration with CIPD, reveals the positive value that organisations can realise by supporting their staff to volunteer in the UK’s schools and colleges.

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And something a little different to bring a bit of festive fun

After such of a difficult year, especially for young people, we’ve been asked by parents, carers and teachers if we could help bring some much-needed festive cheer for 4-11 years olds. So with teachers and mystery volunteers, we have put together something which we hope will bring us a few smiles and laughs

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Publications

Boosting gender equality in science and technology: A challenge for TVET programmes and careers.

UNESCO

The report provides an overview of gender disparities in STEM-related TVET for ten countries based on available data and information.

Philanthropy and education: Education giving in the midst of Covid-19

OECD

The report provides initial findings from consultations with 30 foundations working in developing countries, bilateral and multilateral donors, and education funds, complemented by in-depth interviews and other resources on philanthropy in education during the pandemic.

Educationalisation of youth unemployment through lifelong learning policies in Europe

Oscar Valiente, Queralt Capsada-Munsech & Jan Peter G de Otero

The article provides a comparative analysis of how different lifelong learning policy initiatives managed to ‘educationalise’ a structural economic problem into an individual educational concern.

Work-based education in VET

Kristen Osborne, Maree Ackehurst, Leesha Chan & Rose-Anne Polvere

The summary examines structured VET programs that include students working in an appropriate organisation or business as part of their learning.

Closing the achievement gap in the connected classroom: How the UK’s educators are using technology to bridge the digital learning divide

Microsoft 

The report provides findings of a survey of 5,000 teachers, including more than 1,200 senior leaders, across England, about their thoughts, needs, and desires concerning the future of education and technology, with a particular focus on one-to-one devices and their role in tomorrow’s classrooms.

Global Education Monitoring Report. Inclusion and Education: All Means All

UNESCO

The report identifies different forms of exclusion in education, how they are caused and what we can do about them globally.

Peace education in formal schools: Why is it important, and how can it be done?

Caroline Brooks & Basma Hajir

The report engages existing literature on the purpose, theory and practice of peace education to explore what peace education in schools looks like, its potential impact and how it might be realised in practice. 

Evaluation of the Edge Hotel School

UCL & Edge Foundation

The central focus of this evaluation has been to explore how the Edge Hotel School (EHS) model combines the development of theoretical and practical knowledge and skills through an action-based learning approach and to identify wider implications and lessons to be learnt for industry-engaged education.

Drivers of early career success for UK undergraduates: An analysis of graduate destinations surveys

Edge Foundation

This research looks at drivers of graduates’ career success, which can be linked to students’ university experience. It draws on graduate destination surveys commissioned by the Higher Education Statistics Agency (HESA), comparing graduates’ answers at approximately six months after graduation with their answers at 3.5 years after graduation for those leaving university in 2012/13.

Vocational training for rural populations: A demand-driven approach and its Implications in India

Muthuveeran Ramasamy & Matthias Pilz

The study combined face to face interviews, group interviews and qualitative exploratory research methods to investigate practical problems that arise in real-life contexts when attempts are made to prioritise vocational training demands in line with the needs of all the stakeholders.

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Academic conferencing in the age of Covid-19 and climate crisis: The case of the Comparative and International Education Society (CIES)

Janna Goebel, Caroline Manion, Zsuzsa Millei, Robyn Read & Iveta Silova ​

Work placements: A springboard into the world of work?

Skills Builder Partnership

Apprenticeships: A vaccine won’t be a panacea

Andy Norman

FE research centres and experiential learning - Lessons in further education from Canada

Edge Foundation

Teacher leadership in the time of Covid-19

Sonia Guerriero

Covid-19 pandemic: Preventing an emerging educational crisis in Pakistan

Wajeeha Hazoor Bajwa

Gender, achievement, and subject choice in English education

Chiara Cavaglia, Stephen Machin, Sandra McNally, & Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela

Edge Foundation’s Annual Lecture – Seeding Change Summary and Resources

On 9 December Edge held their Annual Lecture ‘Seeding Change - the environment as a context for learning’, with an inspiring keynote from Eden Project Co-Founder, Sir Tim Smit.

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