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The State of Play: Employers, schools and the delivery of careers advice

Review of employer engagement in schools & colleges, the role of National Careers Service, and Youth Guarantee Implementation Plan. Focus on links between education and employers to support young people's transitions. Discusses the importance of long-lasting beneficial relationships for successful engagement.

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The State of Play: Employers, schools and the delivery of careers advice

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  1. The State of Play: Employers, schools and the delivery of careers advice Professor Jenny Bimrose Dr. Deirdre Hughes Institute for Employment Research University of Warwick 2014

  2. Aim: To review recent key findings on employer engagement in schools & colleges, together with the role of the National Careers Service

  3. Education & Employers: Policy backdrop? Patch work masquerading as unified & coherent?

  4. Education & Employers: Who says what?

  5. Europe 2020: Youth Guarantee • Supporting young people’s transitions • Youth Guarantee Implementation Plan (UK) ‘In preparation’ • UK allocation: 192.54 million euros (with equivalent country match funding) • Compare: Italy 530.18 million euros; Spain 881.44 million euros Reference: OECD (2014) Local Implementation of Youth Guarantees: Emerging Lessons from European Experiences, OECD & LEED, Available online: http://www.oecd.org/cfe/leed/Local-Implementation-Youth-Gurantees-draft.pdf

  6. Single focus: BIS research (2014)

  7. Links between education & employers • Focus on recent research study in England: ‘Understanding the link between employers and education and the role of the National Careers Service’ • Warwick IER led partnership • BIS – due for publication October, 2014….now December • Data collected: January – July 2014

  8. Developing the evidence base

  9. What? Data collection

  10. Schools & Colleges

  11. Employers/ Social Partners

  12. Stakeholder interviews • Association of Colleges (AoC) • Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) • Barclays Lifeskills • British Chamber of Commerce • Business in the Community (BiTC) • Career Academies UK • Confederation of British Industry (CBI) • Education and Employers Taskforce • Engineering UK • Federation of Small Businesses • Local Enterprise Partnerships Network • Local Government Association (LGA) • Monster Jobs • National Grid • NHS Careers, Health Education, England • Nottingham Futures • Prospects Ltd • Plotr • RAF Careers Service • The Edge Foundation • Unionlearn, TUC

  13. National Careers Services

  14. Education/ employer links

  15. Literature Review Conclusion Implication Successful employer engagement is based on long-lasting, mutually acceptable & beneficial relationships between education and businesses Whilst there exist a variety of links that bring significant benefit, these activities need to be incorporated within structures that allow for up-scaling and coherence

  16. Employers: conclusions & implications

  17. Schools: conclusions & implications

  18. Role of the National Careers Service

  19. Labour market information (LMI) Finding: High quality, reliable LMI is in high demand from schools & colleges Implication: ‘LMI for All’ web portal provides an open source for what is required, but schools & colleges require support to exploit its potential

  20. Find out more www.lmiforall.org.uk/ Become an early adopter Stay in contact! Final launch summer 2015

  21. For more information… Peter Glover, UKCES Peter.Glover@ukces.org.uk Jenny Bimrose, IER Jenny.Bimrose@warwick.ac.uk Deirdre Hughes, IER deirdre.hughes3@btinternet.com

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