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Research Digest - January 2024
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Publications
Digital Employment Diagnostic Guidelines
ILO
The guidelines are from extensive research, consultations and collaboration with experts and stakeholders from around the globe. It combines the latest insights, best practices and methodologies for analyzing digital employment and its impact on individuals, enterprises, and society. The guidelines benefited from an ILO-led piloting exercise in Uganda which included an initial analysis, stakeholder consultations and a case study. The piloting was done in collaboration with the ILO PROSPECTS Opportunity Fund project “Promotion, inclusion and protection of refugees and host communities in the gig economy”.
OECD Digital Education Outlook 2023: Towards an Effective Digital Education Ecosystem
OECD
The digital outlook outlines a set of opportunities, guidelines and guardrails, for effective and equitable use of AI in education, developed with Education International a global federation of teachers' trade unions.
Teachers to get work experience in business
Hannah Blake, Elnaz Kashefpakdel, & Tristram Hooley
This report discusses the Teacher Encounters Programme and provides an
evaluation of its impact. It is based on an evaluation of the programme,
commissioned by The Careers & Enterprise Company and undertaken by the
International Centre for Guidance Studies (iCeGS).
Thinking About Artificial Intelligence Investing in the Sector of the Future and Progression
FE NEWS
The FE collectives give us a unique and timely opportunity to look at the impact of AI on the future of skills and work, investing in the sector of the future and exploring progression in FE.
Great expectations: Three Steps to a world-class apprenticeship system
Simon Field
This report makes key recommendations for reforming the apprenticeship systems to boost life chances for younger people and help the UK benefit from how the economy is being reshaped by factors such as technological change and decarbonisation.
Comments
From the horse’s mouth: Technical education is a changer for girls interested in STEM
Alice Amegah, Ekua Nuama Bentil, Eunice Yaa Brimfah Ackwerh, & Maria Barron
How to Help Kids Become Skilled Citizens
- Elizabeth M. Ross
Transforming Education: Leaders Should Invest in Gender Equality, Not Just Parity
Antara Ganguli, Martha Muhwezi, & Anna Murru
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
Addressing epistemic injustice in education research and practice
Tuesday, 6 February, 2024 .
1:00 pm - 2:00 pm GMT
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.
Any views expressed in the publications featured in this newsletter are those of the authors and do not reflect the views of Education and Employers.
