This publication presents contributions from the 2016 International Conference on Employer Engagement in Education and Training. The conference was the fourth hosted by Education and Employers Taskforce, the third by the Edge Foundation and the first joint event by the two organisations, with the sponsorship of LifeSkills created with Barclays. Speakers shared perspectives on what happens when the world of education and training engages with employers and how any positives emerging from the interaction could be optimised. The publication begins with a full transcript of an interview with the O
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This publication presents contributions from the 2016 International Conference on Employer Engagement in Education and Training. The conference was the fourth hosted by Education and Employers Taskforce, the third by the Edge Foundation and the first joint event by the two organisations, with the sponsorship of LifeSkills created with Barclays. Speakers shared perspectives on what happens when the world of education and training engages with employers and how any positives emerging from the interaction could be optimised. The publication begins with a full transcript of an interview with the OECD's Andreas Schleicher exploring issues of skills mismatch, the limitations of qualifications and the importance of careers education. The remaining 11 contributions summarise insights from papers selected on the basis of the quality of the research approaches they had adopted to explore questions of particular relevance to professionals working in UK schools and colleges. All the summaries focus in different ways on the implications for practice stemming from research studies.
Edited excerpts from publisher's website.
The contents are as follows: Introduction: the point of partnership / Anthony Mann; The changing relationship between education and employment / Sean Coughlan interviews Andreas Schleicher; A systematic review of current understandings of employability / Stella Williams; An international literature review: careers education / Deirdre Hughes, Anthony Mann, Sally-Anne Barnes, Beate Baldauf and Rachael McKeown; Enterprise, employability and employer engagement: the findings of Ofsted's thematic survey / Adrian Lyons; Who is getting advice?: Year 11 students' views on careers education and work experience in English secondary schools / Julie Moote, Louise Archer and Emily MacLeod; How access to the medical profession is conceptualised by key stakeholders: evidence from a case study of NHS 'work tasters' / Steven Jones; A military approach to inclusive work experience activity: bespoke STEM placements / Jill Collins and Glynis Dean; Young people's transitions: how employers make a difference / Tami McCrone and Susan Bamford; Technology and the ability to learn through failure: a virtual business enterprise team / Angela Richardson and Paul Bocij; What makes a career talk sing: under what school delivery circumstances or student attitudinal contexts are career talks associated with optimal, long-term wage outcomes? / Christian Percy and Elnaz T. Kashefpakdel; Aligning school to work: assessing the impact of employer engagement with schools in assisting young people make the transition from school to work / Lynn Gambin and Terence Hogarth; Post-compulsory education in England: choices and implications / Claudia Hupkau, Sandra McNally, Jenifer Ruiz-Valenzuela and Guglielmo Ventura.
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