Education and Employers
Research Digest - March 2023

Publications

Youth as Researchers: exploring the impact of COVID-19 on youth; global policy brief 

UNESCO 

Launched at the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic, UNESCO’s “Youth As Researchers on COVID-19” (YAR) is a signature global youth-led research initiative that consolidates evidence from youth across the world on their experiences of, and impactful action during, the global COVID-19 pandemic. In addition to contributing with youth perspectives to inform policy decisions, the goal of the initiative is to promote evidence-based policy-making, and to counter disinformation.

Ready for the Future: A review of Careers Education in England 2021/22 

The Careers & Enterprise Company 

This report seeks to reflect on the careers education system, analysing how much progress was made in the academic year 2021/22 and what gaps remain. Drawing on data and insight from young people (35,000), schools and colleges (84%) and employers (over a hundred working most closely with the system and 1000 business volunteers).

12 Years of Quality Education for All Girls: A Commonwealth Perspective 

Rebecca Gordon, Lauren Marston, Pauline Rose and Asma Zubairi 

This report situates the current evidence on girls’ education across the 53 countries in the Commonwealth, focusing on low- and lower-middle-income countries where the challenges are the greatest. It identifies the current situation of access to school and learning and trends in domestic and aid financing to support the targets. It then presents evidence on interventions to tackle barriers to girls’ access and learning to move forward towards achieving the commitments that have been made. It notes the distinction between gender parity in education – i.e. an equal proportion of girls and boys in school and learning – and the more ambitious goal of gender equality which involves wider steps to end discrimination and create a truly level playing field. 

The perspectives of learners - How are schools developing employability skills? 

Katherine Emms, Andrea Laczik, & Aunam Quyoum 

The Joint Dialogue project's overarching aim was to identify which skills employers are looking for in young people and to consider what skills are being developed in different school settings and how this might translate or transfer into a workplace setting. The project consists of two phases; Phase 1 focuses on the perspectives of the employers and teachers, and Phase 2 focuses on the perspectives of the learners.

Transforming Education 

World’s Lagest Lessons 

This report benchmarked available primary data against the Social Progress Index
(SPI). The SPI creates an accurate snapshot of how each country is performing across multiple variables and assesses countries based on whether they are above the median (better performing) or below the median (worse performing) than the SPI average.

Engineering in higher education

EngineeringUK

In this report, we look at engineering and technology students in higher education (HE) including their characteristics and subjects being studied and compare them to students studying HE courses overall. Unless otherwise stated, figures in
the key findings here are for 2020/21 HE entrants. 

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Globally, access of the poorest girls to school remains an acute problem 

GEM Report 

#HerEducationOurFuture: innovation and technology for gender equality; the latest facts on gender equality in education 

Global Education Monitoring Report Team, UNESCO 

Curricular coherence in mathematics 

Yasin Memis 

Student equity in VET 2021: participation, achievement and outcomes 

NCVER 

Closing the gap: Tackling the remaining disparities in girls’ education and women’s labor market participation 

Raja Bentaouet Kattan & Myra Murad Khan 

Empowering adolescent girls in Africa through education 

Jaime Saavedra & Hana Brixi 

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