More Employers Open to Ditch Degree-Based Hiring, but Candidates Unaware of Other Routes to work, studies find

by SCTP | Aug 19, 2022 | Uncategorised

Employers are increasingly willing to recruit candidates based on soft skills, but 40 per cent of young people still plan to attend university to secure a job, separate pieces of research have revealed. Click here for more. Meanwhile the DfE report record numbers of...

Lack of Progress on Closing Educational Inequalities Disadvantaging Millions Throughout Life

by SCTP | Aug 19, 2022 | Uncategorised

New research on inequalities, carried out for the Institute for Fiscal Studies Deaton Review of Inequalities and funded by the Nuffield Foundation, finds that disadvantaged pupils start school behind their better-off peers, and the education system is not succeeding...

Employers Reassess Value of Degrees in Face of Worker Shortages, Ahead of A-level Results Day

by SCTP | Aug 19, 2022 | Uncategorised

Nearly three quarters of employers are less interested in university degrees than a decade ago, according to new research from the global hiring platform, Indeed. Click here for more.

Brexit Exacerbated UK Labour Shortages, but Causes are ‘More Complex’

by SCTP | Aug 19, 2022 | Uncategorised

The policy brief report, The end of free movement and the low-wage labour force in the UK, conducted by ReWAGE and the Migration Observatory at Oxford University, found that while Brexit exacerbated the labour market problems in the UK, it was “by no means the only...

Apprenticeships Still Overlooked by Young People

by SCTP | Aug 19, 2022 | Uncategorised

Misconceptions around apprenticeships are still influencing the decisions of young people in their career paths, according to new research from accountancy and business advisory firm, BDO. Click here for more.