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Research Digest - March 2024
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Publications
Putting Skills First Opportunities for Building Efficient and Equitable Labour Markets Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance
World Economic Forum
The report identifies five specific opportunities for intervention where the gains from skills-first solutions are most likely for employers and workers alike. It highlights a diverse set of Skills First “Lighthouses”, selected by an independent expert panel. The report concludes by offering key takeaways regarding success factors in implementing skills-first approaches.
World Bank
This report provides an overview of Zambia’s labour market, highlights key potential sectors for future economic development and employment growth, and analyses the challenges faced by the Technical Education, Vocational and Entrepreneurship Training (TEVET) system as it seeks to respond to these developments.
James Robson, Susan James Relly, Luke Sibieta, Shruti Khandekar, Mariela Neagu, & David Robinson
The report analyses the divergent approaches to education and training (E&T) policy across the UK to understand more deeply the key policy issues and challenges facing E&T and the kinds of structures that support young people’s transitions from education to employment and help them live fulfilling lives. It focuses on the interplay between policies, participation, and outcomes across the four nations, particularly examining issues of inequality for young people.
Spelling It Out, Making It Count
Dr Chihiro Kobayashi, Paul Warner, & Peter Dickinson
This report finds that functional skills qualifications are not currently doing the job they set out to do, and are severely under-funded. As a result, the country is funding qualifications that bear increasingly little relevance to the workplace scenarios they were designed to map to, in a way that unhelpfully blurs the line between academic and vocational learning styles.
Curriculum in FE Colleges over time: Illustrations of change and continuity
Shinyoung Jeon, Anthony Mann, & Vanessa Denis
The report focuses on how social inequalities shape the career development and transitions of young people and how school guidance systems can best respond to circumstances where definable groups of students with shared characteristics face greater barriers than peers in successfully progressing through education into successful employment. It focuses particularly on questions of social class (socio-economic status or SES), gender and migrant background (where OECD data is especially strong), but also includes discussions of students from LGBTQ+ backgrounds and ethnic minority students.
Comments
Discouraged and hedged – why students enter VET after obtaining university eligibility
Andreas Hartung & Katarina Weßling
Notice
Children in the UK, Canada, China, Denmark, and South Africa were all asked to draw pictures of people doing typical jobs and the film captures what they draw…revealing their astonished reactions when they meet the people who do those jobs in real life!
CLICK ON THE IMAGE TO WATCH THE VIDEO
The new video is a global version, based on the original ‘Redraw the Balance’ UK version, which the Education and Employers charity published to mark International Women’s Day in 2016. Kindly made by Mullen Lowe, it showed 66 children aged five to seven drawing a picture of a firefighter, a surgeon, and a fighter pilot. 61 children drew these roles as men, only five drew women…
Event
Future Dreaming: Career Guidance in the Age of Digital Technologies
22 May, 2024 04:00 AM EST
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.
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