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Careers Enterprise Company (Link) | The Careers and Enterprise company are “the national body for careers education in England, supporting schools and colleges to deliver modern, 21st century careers education”. Although traditionally focussing on secondary education, they now offer dedicated resources for primary schools on their Primary Careers Resources platform. |
Careers Wales (Link) | Careers Wales is a public (government funded service) that provides careers information, advice and guidance service for Wales. Careers Wales works with the Welsh Government. Although a small number of Careers Wales publications have appeared, these remain relatively few. Career Wales mainly publish articles through an online repository. |
Cedefop (Link) | Cedefop is a decentralised agency of the European Union that supports the development of European vocational education and training (VET) policies and contributes to their implementation. As such it publishes a large number of papers and reports – both pan European and into member countries – across most aspects of CEIAG, but particularly covering policy and system level issues. |
Education and Employers (Link) | A UK based charity launched in 2009 which aims to “provide young people with the inspiration, motivation, knowledge, skills and opportunities they need to help them achieve their potential”. The charity works with state schools, employers, the national bodies that represent them and a wide range of other partners. Research informs education, policy and practice in the UK. |
Department of Education (Link) | The Department of Education, along with the Department of Work and Pensions, are the two Government areas where agendas align with Careers. The Department of Education website provides a section on “Research and Statistics”, and “Policy papers and consultations” guidance and regulation to inform on the national education landscape and challenges. |
| Economic and Social Research Council (Link) | ESRC is the UK’s largest funder of economic, social, behavioural and human data science. The council do not fund a lot of direct careers research but cover related employability themes. The research library of the wider UK Research Institutes can be accessed through their Gateway to Research, for projects dating back to 2006.
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Gatsby Foundation (Link) | Gatsby is a charitable foundation that support the development of employability skills and has since been both a funder and active in projects themselves. “Good Career Guidance” is one of the four themes of their work in education (while they also work in other Neuroscience and Plant Science). Their Eight Benchmarks are a framework for school leaders, headteachers, and careers advisors to assess the development of their pupils in employability skills. |
International Centre for Guidance Studies (iCeGS) (Link) | iCeGS have conducted a high volume of critical national and international studies, specifically into the areas of careers: education, development, and policy etc, for both academic journals, policymaking bodies and careers service providers. Consequently, their research library contains relevant papers and reports to this area, as well as many related topics. |
National Association for Primary Education (Link) | NAPE is a membership body that work to create resources, courses and other products that help to enhance primary school education. |
National Careers Development Association (US) (Link) | The NCDA is the United States membership body for careers professionals. As well as publishing periodic larger scale research, practitioners actively contribute short practice articles by way of small-scale evaluation, reflection or learnings, particularly through their Career Convergence magazine. All career stages are covered, including Elementary education, equivalent to Primary in the UK. |
National Foundation for Educational Research (Link) | The foundation produce a wide body of research studies and evaluations aimed at improving education outcomes by informing different key decisions facing schools and policy makers. A number of their studies have covered careers explicitly, while there has been more still covering the relationship between education and employability. |
Nuffield Foundation (Link)
| The Nuffield Foundation is an independent charitable trust with a mission to advance educational opportunity and social well-being. Research informs social policy, primarily in Education, Welfare and Justice.
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OECD: Education (Link) | The OECD publish intensely both research studies and data sets into education. Topics span outcome measures, national policies, teacher capabilities, future/forecasting studies – but there is a specific section on career readiness. The focus of the work appears more orientated towards secondary education. |
Primary Futures (Link) | Primary Futures is a programme run in partnership with the NAHT that connects primary schools with diverse workplace volunteers to take part in aspirational activities and talk with children about their jobs. The resource provides a range of case studies and success stories. |
PiXL Club (Link) | PiXL was born out of the DfE's 'The London Challenge', a school improvement programme set up by the government in 2003. It provides a network for collaboration and shared support between schools. Amongst their various proposition, they support primary schools. PiXL are not a research organisation, but do produce content that create insight for the sector. |
Skills Development Scotland (Link) | SDS are “The national body supporting the people and businesses of Scotland to develop and apply their skills”, providing public career services. They have also published research to inform career sector development for the future. |
Teach First (Link) | Teach First are the UK’s largest teacher training programme. They publish various research and policy reports that describe the sector’s challenges. |
The Children’s Commissioner for England (Link) | The Children’s Commission provides a stream of ongoing research into children’s lives in the UK, with a particular focus on disadvantage, offering context and insight into such groups. |
UNESCO: Early Childhood and Care (Link) | UNESCO is the “UNESCO is the United Nations Laboratory of Ideas”. Research and data sources provide an international perspective, cross cutting themes and studies relating to wider global contexts to education, such as ‘sustainability’ and ‘democracy’. |