Publications

The Edge Foundation worked with the National Education Business Partnership Network and Business in the Community to examine ways of making it easier for more employers to get more involved in education, more often. This essay prepares an overview of some of the issues, poses some questions to provoke further debate, and identifies some actions that would encourage employers to become engaged in education and training.

Care to Learn is a UK government initiative that provides financial support for teenage parents who want to continue in, or return to learning. It helps with the cost of their childcare and travel. The report explores these mothers' attitudes to learning, and the examines the range of barriers - practical, emotional and motivational - that restrict their access to learning.

Care to Learn is a UK government initiative that provides financial support for teenage parents who want to continue in, or return to learning. It helps with the cost of their childcare and travel. This report explores the extent to which learning providers are engaged with teenage parents and Care to Learn, and the extent to which they are addressing the specific needs of young parents. The data suggest a relatively high level of flexibility and provision for young parents, even within institutions that rarely engage with this group.

Care to Learn is a UK government initiative that provides financial support for teenage parents who want to continue in, or return to learning. It helps with the cost of their childcare and travel. The report looks at how learning provision is developed and delivered, and issues around its set up and longer-term survival. It also explores the impact on young mothers and what it is about particular types of provision that suit these young women.

The Gateways to the Professions project was a collaboration between the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS), six out of seven of the UK veterinary schools and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA), part-funded by the Department for Education and Skills (DfES). Its objective was to develop communications materials that could help break down barriers preventing students from a broader ethnic, social and economic base applying to veterinary school.

This study was commissioned by the Sector Skills Development Agency and seeks to explore how well the skills of workers meet the demands of their jobs in UK and Europe, and what factors lie behind this.

This paper considers the nature of career development within employing organisations and its implications for the role of employers in offering career support to employed adults. Although based on research evidence and practical experience from the UK, recent research for Cedefop indicates that the issues explored here also seem likely to be of relevance to other European countries.This paper is based on an input to the Guidance for Workforce Development Conference, held by CEDEFOP in Thessaloniki, 2007.

Drawing on a series of telephone interviews and workshops, this report explores the efficacy of methods of engagement, identifies good practice and makes recommendations for the development of peer referencing and review by learning providers.

This research is based on a survey of 2,180 learners who withdrew from at least one LSC-funded course during the 2004/05 academic year. The survey covers learners aged 16-18 and 19+, across further education and work-based learning.

Succession planning is one part of ensuring that an organisation can meet its future needs for people. ‘Talent management’ is now a common umbrella term for the attraction, retention and development of people with potential. Succession planning certainly comes under that umbrella. In some organisations succession planning and talent management focus only on senior leadership, while others choose to apply the same concepts and processes to broader groups of jobs and people.