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Employer Interaction with Schools

Employer Interaction with Schools. David Blagbrough Director, Inspire!. Inspire!. Education Business Partnership Brokering relationships between schools and employers Meeting the needs of schools Supporting young people NEET Meeting the needs of employers Hackney, Camden and Islington

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Employer Interaction with Schools

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  1. Employer Interaction with Schools David Blagbrough Director, Inspire!

  2. Inspire! Education Business Partnership Brokering relationships between schools and employers Meeting the needs of schools Supporting young people NEET Meeting the needs of employers Hackney, Camden and Islington 3,500 work experience placements 240 activities 800 Local and City companies 1700 employee volunteers 14,000 students

  3. Current landscape • Teaching and learning • Institutional framework • Work related learning • External

  4. What employers need • Future employees who • Are literate and numerate • Are able to communicate • Are team players • Can problem solve • Are flexible and adaptable • Have initiative • Are self aware • Have the right attitude • Can organise and time manage • Do schools deliver?

  5. What schools seek from employers • Support for • Learning and enriching curriculum • Progression into and skills for work or learning • Raising aspirations and motivation • Informing career pathways • Development of social capital • Governance and professional advice • Continuing professional development • Funding

  6. Closing the gap • Working with employers to provide • Work experience • Company visits • Continuous professional development • Preparation for work • Numeracy and literacy skills • Financial literacy • Presentational, CV writing and interview skills • Support for enterprise skills • Curriculum enrichment • Mentoring support • Careers education • School governance

  7. Relationship models

  8. How can it go wrong? • Lack of teacher involvement • Curriculum pressure • Not embedded in curriculum • Volunteer drop out • Volunteers weak at engagement • Over promising: being realistic about employee support • Inadequate engagement of senior managers • Geography • Failure to recognise mutuality of benefit • Cultural divide • Lack of business networks • Lack of longer term commitment • Inadequate impact measurement

  9. Ramping up • Delivery • Tailored WEXP • CEIAG and integrated packages • Languages • International • Networking • Supporting parents • Employee volunteers • Hidden skills/passions • Responding to diversity • Improve training • Employer engagement • Working with supply chain • More partnerships with schools • Policy • Starting early • Long term commitment • Support brokers • Employment • Apprenticeships • Nurturing future employees • Creating jobs • Risk capital for enterprise • Recruitment and selection practices • Impact measurement • Young people • Employer involvement

  10. Where will it lead….? • Preparation for work, but there are no jobs…. • SMEs • Drivers of growth • Opportunity cost • Support for SMEs • Voluntary and Community Sector • SMEs • Links with communities • Transition/pastoral support • Working for Youth

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