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. Summarise Explore Reflect Relevant policy context
Recent research findings
Reflect
On future implications

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

5. Education & Employers: Who says what?
Statutory guidance
Non-statutory guidance
DfE
Employers, Partnerships, Skills
Colleges; Apprenticeships, Traineeships
DBIS
Ofsted; National Careers Council; Gatsby; UKCES; OECD; CEDEFOP
Related

6. Europe 2020: Youth Guarantee
Supporting young people’s transitions
Youth Guarantee Implementation Plan (UK)
‘In preparation’
UK allocation: million euros (with equivalent country match funding)
Compare:
Italy million euros; Spain million euros
Reference: OECD (2014) Local Implementation of Youth Guarantees: Emerging Lessons from European Experiences, OECD & LEED, Available online:

7. Single focus: BIS research (2014)

8. 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

9. Developing the evidence base
What?
Conclusions?
Implications?

10. What? Data collection Literature Review Surveys Case Studies
Interviews
Case Studies

11. Schools & Colleges
Surveys
78: 20
Interviews 12
Case studies 6

12. Employers/ Social Partners
301 telephone surveys
23 in- depth interviews

13. 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

14. National Careers Services
Out of 13 Prime Contractors
Plus telephone & webchat helpline services
Included 8 Prime Contractors

15. Education/ employer links
Data analysis
Synthesis
Findings
Implications

16. Conclusion Implication
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

17. Employers: conclusions & implications
Large employers v SMEs
Barriers

18. Schools: conclusions & implications
YEAR GROUPS
CONTACTS COHERENCE
STRONG LEADERSHIP

19. Role of the National Careers Service
Awareness
Visibility
Scope
Services for young people under-utilised
In need of improvement
Partnerships and local impact

21. 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

22. Find out more
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23. For more information…
Peter Glover, UKCES Jenny Bimrose, IER Deirdre Hughes, IER