Future Innovators
A project with NESTA, exploring the extent to which the perceptions of and attitudes of school-age pupils towards work and innovation differ from or complement the working world they are likely to experience.
- 'Real Science' NESTA report (pdf) NESTA report of science teaching: argues for more experimentation and sense of discovery in learning. 2nd April 2007
- DfES Next Steps Research: longitudinal study of young people Next Steps is one of the biggest and most important studies of young people ever; not just in England but anywhere in the world. The research follows a large number of young people through education and beyond to find out about their experiences and their views 2nd April 2007
- The McKinsey Quarterly: Sizing the emerging global labor market Useful McKinsey Study. Finds: Some occupations also are more amenable than others to remote employment. The most amenable to it are engineering, on the one hand, and finance and accounting, on the other (52 percent and 31 percent, respectively) Concludes: In practice, just a small fraction of the jobs that could go offshore actually will. Today, around 565,000 service jobs in the eight sectors we evaluated have been offshored to low-wage countries. By 2008, that number will grow to 1,200,000.' 22nd February 2007
- A harder line on softer skills | Education Guardian "One third of our members have reported they are not happy with the employability skills of the graduates they recruit," says Miles Templeman, director general of the Institute of Directors. "We're talking about interpersonal skills, communication and teamwork and the ability to handle business situations - all things that aren't taught in universities and schools.' 22nd February 2007