Following warnings from the Sutton Trust that inadequate careers education is hitting disadvantaged pupils the hardest, the Education Endowment Foundation and Bank of America Merrill Lynch have commissioned a literature review to investigate ways to improve it.
Effectiveness
Chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation Sir Peter Lampl thanked the Bank of America Merrill Lynch for their help:
“Research tells us that the current provision of careers advice isn’t up to scratch in England. Effective and clear career advice can have a major impact on the outcome of a young person after school.
“The EEF is delighted to be partnering with the Bank of America Merrill Lynch and I would like to thank them for offering their funding, support and advice.”
The EEF hopes to identify effective ways to provide careers education advice to allow schools to make “informed and evidence-based decisions” about how best to prepare pupils for life after education.
Failings
A report produced by Louise Archer, a researcher at King’s College London, found that schools in the UK were failing to prepare girls, ethnic-minority and working-class pupils for life after school.
The EEF has appointed Dr Deidre Hughes OBE, principle research fellow at the University of Warwick’s Institute for Employment Research, and Dr Anthony Mann, director of policy and research at the Education Employers charity to carry out the research.
Following the announcement of the partnership, the EEF commented: “There is strong evidence that too much careers education in England is inadequate and that the quality varies considerably by school and area.
“There is a risk that a lack of good quality careers education will disproportionately impact on students from disadvantaged backgrounds, who are perhaps less likely to have family or friends with the breadth of insight and expertise to offer informed advice, and who could be left poorly equipped in making decisions about their futures.”
For more information about the project, please visit: https://educationendowmentfoundation.org.uk/news/eef-partners-with-bank-of-america-merrill-lynch-to-investigate-ways-to-impr/
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