Education and Employers
Research Digest - June 2022

Publications

A difficult nut to crack? How the UK has tackled the youth employment challenge 

Sue Maguire 

The purpose of this paper is to map the trajectory of change within youth transitions which has occurred across the UK since the 1970s. The focus includes a review of selected training initiatives that have been introduced to replace ‘traditional’ youth jobs; the expansion of educational opportunities for young people; and the shifting responsibility for youth transitions within national, regional and local government and, increasingly, outside of government. Foremost, it examines what we have learnt, where we have failed, and how we might move forward.

Youth report 2022: Non-state actors in education: who chooses? who loses?

UNESCO

This report is written in partnership with the Global Student Forum to help you learn about the youth perspective on the different roles and impact of non-state actors in education. For many, a discussion on the role of non-state actors in education quickly boils down to a debate about whether private schools support or undermine good quality education. But, as this report shows, the role of non-state actors impacts many more corners of the education sector, from the textbooks you use, the food in your canteens, any additional tutorial support you get, the skills you might learn at work and much more.

Education for All: is the world on track? EFA global monitoring report, 2002 

Global Education Monitoring Report Team

This Report is about opportunities to learn. Its primary purpose is to assess the extent to which the benefits associated with education are being extended to all children, youths and adults around the world and whether the commitments made two years ago in April 2000 at the World Education Forum in Dakar are being met. It offers an interim answer to the question of whether the world is on track to achieve Education for All (EFA) in 2015.

Research into technical education teaching roles 

GATSBY

The Gatsby Charitable Foundation commissioned this research to provide a
categorisation of technical education teaching roles in further education (FE), and to build a shared understanding of the teaching job roles supporting 16-19 and adult education. The findings are intended to help with the planning of appropriate support for technical education teaching recruitment and teacher education. An initial literature review was undertaken, which highlighted the breadth and variety of further education, such that teaching in FE is diverse, and delivered across a variety of settings, with teaching roles showing varied job titles and differing levels of responsibility and autonomy.

Why diversifying your workforce is good for business employers talk about the benefits 

Inclusion, Education and Training Foundation 

Did you know that having a diverse workforce is actually good for your business? This report highlights a talent pool that you may not have considered. Across the country, young disabled people are making their way in the world, creating the lives they hoped for by using their knowledge and skills. Meaningful employment can be a fundamental component of having a happy and successful life. The publication features employers who have recognised the potential of this often-untapped source of potential.

Before Incorporation: A Timeline of Key Initiatives and Policies Shaping Further Education in England Before 1992 

Ewart Keep Lorna Unwin & Ashmita Randhawa 

In 2021, the Further Education Trust for Leadership (FETL) published Honourable
Histories, a chronology of the landmark policy reports and interventions following the incorporation of FE colleges in 1992, taking them out of local education
authority control. The authors explained that its purpose was to “provide an aid for reflection upon the myriad of changes and shifts in policy and institutions and to give contemporary policy makers a glimpse into the thinking that motivated their predecessors”. That exercise inspired the authors to develop a ‘prequel’ that identified the policy interventions and other significant activities that
contributed to the development of FE before 1992.

National SDG 4 Benchmarks: Fulfilling Our Neglected Commitment 

UNESCO

This publication describes the steps taken since 2017 to agree on benchmarks for a selected set of seven SDG 4 indicators: early childhood education attendance; out-of-school rates; completion rates; gender gaps in completion rates; minimum proficiency rates in reading and mathematics; trained teachers; and public education expenditure. The process reached its first major milestone in August 2021 when countries were requested to submit 19 benchmark values each for
2025 and/or 2030 for six of the seven benchmark indicators.

Online Learning: What Every Parent Should Know 

Network for Public Education 

The increased reliance on technology in schools is moving at a breakneck speed one that far exceeds the accumulation of research on its effectiveness. Does online and blended learning enhance student learning? What do we know about virtual schools? How does profit influence policy decisions on the use of technology? Beyond questions of effectiveness, there are also student privacy concerns. These and other crucial questions are some of the big questions this report, through an extensive review of the research literature, thin as it may be, provides critical information on what is known and what remains unknown. It also provides parents with the questions they should ask their schools as technology is rolled into the classroom.

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How to get girls into school 

David Moinina Sengeh 

Bringing out the Best How to transform education and unleash the potential of every child 

Times Education Commission  

‘What will happen to our children?’: The Impact of COVID-19 school closures on child protection and education inequalities in three humanitarian contexts 

The Alliance for Child Protection in Humanitarian Action 

Girls’ dropout rate has increased since 2017 – ActionAid, HDI Report

ActionAid Nigeria (AAN) and the Human Development Initiatives (HDI)

A sound Recovery for schools

Saint-Gobain Ecophon

Racial and ethnic disparities in earnings, employment, and education in Connecticut

Cynthia Willner  

Most businesses fear pandemic has exacerbated skills shortage – report

Julian Owen

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