Education and Employers
Research Digest - April 2024

Publications

Challenging Social Inequality Through Career Guidance Insights from International Data and Practice 

 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. 

Youth provision and life outcomes A study of longitudinal research 

SQR Group

The report explores the effects of weekly participation in youth clubs on outcomes later in life. There is a clear association between participation in youth provision and positive short-term outcomes relating to physical health and wellbeing, pro-social behaviours and education. There is also strong evidence that these short-term outcomes are sustained over decades and, compared with non-participants, people who attended youth clubs continue to score more highly for several of these indicators of wellbeing.

Applying the Robbins Principle to Further Education and Apprenticeship 

Richard Layard, Sandra McNally, & Guglielmo Ventura

The essays in this report cover topics ranging from the role of smarter regulation in supporting economic growth, ensuring that the goal of ‘good jobs’ is embedded in our national industrial strategy and the role of the higher education sector in providing the skills needed to power our services-dominated economy.

Experiences and perceived impacts of the apprenticeship minimum wage: A qualitative scoping study 

Charlynne Pullen, Bob Jeffery, & Teri-Lisa Griffiths

The report shows that all apprentices studied were motivated by the opportunity to gain a “foot in the door” and progress on a career path. However, whilst accepting the concept of earning a lower wage while training to earn more in future, disadvantaged apprentices could not make ends meet on the apprenticeship minimum wage. The conclusion is that Level 2 apprenticeships can be an effective stepping stone for a career, but pay needs to be high enough that apprentices can support themselves.

Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Teaching and Learning 

Miguel A. Cardona, Roberto J. Rodríguez, & Kristina Ishmael

The report addresses the clear need for sharing knowledge and developing policies for “Artificial Intelligence,” a rapidly advancing class of foundational capabilities that are increasingly embedded in different educational technology systems and are also available to the public. Recommendations in this report seek to engage teachers, educational leaders, policy makers, researchers, and educational technology innovators and providers as they work together on pressing policy issues that arise as Artificial Intelligence (AI) is used in education.

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Unlocking opportunities: The path to diversity and representation in STEM through further education and career advancement 

Tara McGeehan

The future of EdTech: Encouraging young people to think creatively from schools to their careers 

Nick Birch

The case for conversational AI in education & employability programs 

Boris Bambo

A “good life” after high school: How schools can help students prepare 

Lisa Chu &Heather Casimere

Children from disadvantaged backgrounds 'lack access to work experience'

 Lawrence Matheson

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