Employablilty Education _Ipsos MORI.pdf

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Education and EmployabilityTrinh Tu and John Higton

Ipsos MORI Employment, Welfare and SkillsJanuary 2013


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Just a few of the challenges facing school leavers

A dire economy

Eurozone competition

Debt crisis overhanging and employers

not investing as a result

Fewer jobs than school leavers looking


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Q What do you see as the most important issues facing Britain today?

Most important issues facing Britain what thepublic say

Base: 1,174 British adults 18+, 30th November - 14th December 2012

Source: Ipsos MORI Issues Index

55

30

22

1917

15

13

11

11

8

Top mentions %

Economy

Unemployment

Crime/Law and Order

NHS

Race Relations/Immigration

Poverty/inequality

Housing

Education/schools

18-24 year olds

48

32

20

20

11

11

22

10

15

-

+

%

Inflation/prices

Pensions/social security/

benefits


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Q Currently, what would you say is the MAIN educational issue theGovernment needs to address?

Pupil behaviour seen as main educational problem

Funding/(budget crisis)

Pupil behaviour/discipline

Tuition fees

Class size/pupil-teacher ratio

Back to basics/higher standards

Teachers workload

Base: 2,048 British adults 18+ , January 2011

Teacher recruitment and retention

Assessment/exam reform

Inclusion/Special Education Needs (SEN)

Bullying in schools

17%

9%

6%

6%

6%

3%

2%

2%

2%

2%


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Q What do you see as the most important issues facing Britain today?

Most important issues facing Britain: Long-termtrends

Base: representative sample of c.1,000 British adults aged 18+ , each month, interviewed face-to-face in-home


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May

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May

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May

2008

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May

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2012

Unemploymen

NHS Crime/

Law &Order

Race / immigratio

Economy


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Education

Q What do you see as the most important issues facing Britain today?Education/schools?

Public concern with education peaked during theearly Blair years

Peak in response to Blairs

education, education, education

speech at the 1996 Labour Party

Conference.

Base: c. 1000 interviews each month, face to face, nationwide



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Q What do you see as the most important issue facing Britain today?

Youth unemployment seen by one in eight Captains of Industryas key problem - higher than lending and financial crisis

43%

32%

20%

18%

15%

13%

12%

11%

8%

Top Mentions

The Eurozone

Government deficit/debt

Lack of economic growth

Consumer confidence/confidence

Unemployment

Youth unemployment

Societal dysfunction/social issues

Availability of finance/bank

lending

Financial crisis/instability

Base: British Captains of Industry (100), interviewed September - December 2011


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More than a million young people in England were

not in education, employment or training (Neet) in

the three months to September 2012.

17% of 16- to 24-year-olds were without jobs orcollege places.

Department for Education, November 2012


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Substantial government investment in Apprenticeships

Since 2010, over a millionApprenticeships have been

started, half a million of them in

the last year. And while this

increase in quantity is very

welcome, we must ensure theyare higher quality, more rigorous,

and focused on what employers

need.

Minister for Skills, Matthew Hancock MP


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81% of small business owners are notconfident that school leavers have theright level of employability skills

Source: Voice of Small Business Survey Panel 2012, Federation of SmallBusinesses


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3%

29%

23%

54%

13%

8%

35%

8%

26%

1%

Britains educationsystem delivers the

skills that yourbusiness needs

Large companiesshould do a lot more topromote understanding

of business insecondary schools

% Strongly agree % Tend to agree % Neither agree nor disagree % Tend to disagree % Strongly disagree

83%

Q To what extent do you agree or disagree with the following statements?

Views shared by Captains of Industry

Base: British Captains of Industry (100), interviewed September - December 2011

Only 26% Agree 61% Dont

9%

Employers find the skills system confusing and time


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so without a clear skills system, or an account managerto help hide the wiring, many will not use governmentservices linking them to apprentices and graduates

Employers find the skills system confusing and time-

consuming to navigate

To be honest I think skillsprovision is not on my radar. Imjust drawing on my accountmanager whos giving me theinformation and thinking thatswhats available, rather than

actually asking what else there is.Large national employer using

National Apprenticeship Service

The problem is, within anindustry,people just dont havetime to go and research things soif employment and skills servicesare not directly offered to them,they wont go and look for them.

SME, Birmingham, using formerBusiness Link service

Source: What do employers want from an aligned employment and skills system? February - April 2010

Vocational qualifications do not have equal status to


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Q To what extent do you agree or disagree with the followingstatement?

Vocational qualifications are of an equal status to traditional academicqualifications such as GCSEs and A Levels in terms of difficulty and level of skillrequired to achieve the qualification?

Vocational qualifications do not have equal status to

academic routes

7%18%

7%

32%

27%

9%

Neither/nor Tend to disagreeStrongly agree Tend to agree Strongly disagree Dont know

25%

59%

Base: Teachers (500), November 2011

A third of business say school leavers are NOT well


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Q How well prepared are education leavers for employment?

A third of business say school leavers are NOT well

prepared

28% 25% 19%

12%

9%7%

5%2%

49% 54%60%

59%

10% 10% 13%23%

0

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

100

16 - year old school leavers 17-18 - year old school leavers 17-18-year old FE leavers University or HE Leavers

Poorly Prepared Very poorly prepared Well prepared Very well prepared

Unweighted Base: (10,985) (13,891) (13,024) (15,706)

Base: 85,069 establishments in England, Northern Ireland, and Wales

Source: Employer Skills Survey 2011

37%32%

24%

14%

Only a quarter have recruited education leavers in past


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Q In the last 2-3 years, has this site taken on anyone to their first job onleaving school, college or university?

Only a quarter have recruited education leavers in past2-3 years

Base: All (85,069) establishments in England, Northern Ireland, and Wales

24%

7%

9%

8%

10%

Any Education leavers

16 year olds from school

17-18 year olds from school

17-18 year-olds from FE college

From University/other HEInstitution



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7 4

12

18 20

33

9 4

14

26

35

47

8 4

13

24

31

44

10 5

15

33

50

59

24

13

38

60

72

79

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

Overall 1 to 4 5 to 24 25 to 99 100 to 249 250+

% 16 - year old school leavers % 17-18 year olds from school

% 17-18 year olds from FE colleges % University/ HE Leavers

Overall

Unweighted Base: (85,069) (18,642) (46,875) (15,136) (2,947) (1,469)

Q In the last 2-3 years, has this site taken on anyone to their first job onleaving school, college or university?

Recruitment lowest among small businesses

Base: All (85,069) establishments in England, Northern Ireland, and Wales


Poorly prepared workers lacked essential skills and


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Poorly prepared workers lacked essential skills andbehaviours

23

18

13

8

18

15

12

4

10 10

8

65

43

1

43

2

1

32 2

10

5

10

15

20

25

30

16- year-old schoolleavers

17-18 year-old schoolleavers

17-18 year-old FEcollege leavers

University/HE Leavers

% Lacking working world experience of maturity

% Poor attitude, personality or lack of motivation

% Lack of required skills or competencies

% Lack of Common Sense

% Literacy/numeracy skills

Poor Education

Unweighted Base: (10,985) (13,891) (13,024) (15,706)


Q Thinking of those recruited in the last 2-3 years, how well prepared forwork have they have been? In what ways have they been poorly prepared ?


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Minister for Skills, Matthew Hancock MP

. . . we are introducing traineeships to help young

people with the skills they need to get a job, and hold

down a job . . . .

"Traineeships will give young people the helping

hand and experience they need to compete for

apprenticeships and good jobs."

P i f th f t


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Q How helpful, if at all, will each of the following be in helping you do what

you want to do in the future?

Preparing for the future

Base: All year 11 pupils in England stating an answer (368), 9th January - 3rd April 2009

94

92

9189

83

75

7266

56

4

5

58

13

20

2525

33

2009

Learning how to look for a job

% Helpful % Not helpful

Learning interview techniques

Going on a work placement for a weekor more

Being taught how to write a CV

Discussing what job you want to do when youare older

Visiting a work place, such as a

factory or shopListening to or speaking with a visitor from

business

Taking part in exercises about theworld of work

2007%Helpful

97

94

92

86

96

79

79

71

62Taking part in a mini-enterprise or otherenterprise project

W k l t d l i i h l ti


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Q Looking at the list below, have you ever done any of the following in

school time?

Work-related learning in school time

Base: All year 11 pupils in England stating an answer (368). 2007 base (461), 2004 base (344).Fieldwork dates: 9th January- 3rd April 2009

83%

76%

61%

58%

47%

46%

43%

37%

34%

88%

77%

71%

60%

61%

59%

55%

38%

48%

80%

69%

67%

54%

58%

46%

42%

43%

17%

20072009

Discussed what job you want to dowhen you are older

Listened to or spoken with a visitorfrom business

Taken part in exercises about the worldof work

Been taught how to write a CV

Learnt interview techniques

Visited a work place, such as a factory

or shop

Taken part in a mini-enterprise or otherenterprise project

Learnt how to look for a job

Been on a work placement for a week ormore

2004

M i l h i ld b h l f l


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Q Looking at the list below, have you ever done any of the following in schooltime?

Q How helpful, if at all, will each of the following be in helping you do what you

want?

More practical techniques would be helpful

10

20

30

40

50

60

70

80

90

50 60 70 80 90

Have

done

in

school

Would be helpful

Learning howto look for a

job

Learning interview techniques

Going on a work placement for aweek or more

Being taughthow to write a

CV

Discussing what job you want to dowhen you are older

Visiting a work place, such

as a factory or shop

Listening to orspeaking with a

visitor frombusiness

Taking part inexercises about the

world of work

Taking part in a mini-enterprise or otherenterprise project

Base: 379 year 11 pupils giving an answer in England. Fieldwork dates: 9th January- 3rd April 2009

%

%

Who needs to be experience these things?


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Q Who do you think should learn about jobs and working life while they are

at school?

Who needs to be experience these things?

2007

Only young people whoplan to get a full-time job at 16

All young people

77%

13%

11%

2009

Base: 1,983 young people aged 11-16 in England. 2007 base (2,195), 2004 base (2,131),

Dont know

79%

10%

12%

2004

74%

13%

13%

Fieldwork dates: 9th January- 3rd April 2009

however, school performance can certainly


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Q How much do you agree or disagree with each of the following things will

help your future success in life?

, p yhelp set you up for future success

70%

68%

61%

66%

51%

45%

46%

35%

17%

23%

23%

32%

25%

35%

41%

38%

40%

24%

3%

4%

3%

3%

7%

9%

8%

14%

31%

2%

2%

4%

13%

13%

2%

8%

Being able to read and write well

Having good qualifications/exam results

Being confident

Being intelligent/clever

Having good numeracy skills

Getting on well with other people

Having good ICT skills

Being lucky

Working hard at school/aiming to dothe best you can

Source: Ipsos MORI

Strongly agree Tend to agree Neither agree nor disagreeTend to disagree Strongly disagree

Base: 1,393 pupils in Key Stage 4 in maintained schools in London, 10 Nov ember 2009 22 January 2010

Final thoughts


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Final thoughts

System needs to be simplified for

employers especially SMEsMore needs to be done to raise status ofvocational routes and apprenticeships

Schools need to teach practical thingsmore, like building a CV, job interviewtraining and the like

Employers need offer meaningful workexperience


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