• What incentives to both employer and potential apprentice will facilitate more individuals entering the workforce via apprenticeships?

Background

DfE research interests for this pillar of the Opportunity Mission include enabling learners to make decisions that are informed by understanding the opportunities and support available, especially participation in further and higher education, and how continuing education affects their future opportunities. We also need to explore how our sectors can best prepare learners to take advantage of those opportunities, including in secondary education. We are especially interested in practices in further and higher education that engage less researched groups, such as those with care experience, those with SEND, experience of Alternate Provision, and children with a history of offending. However, this topic is not specific to further and higher education; for example, how different occupations and opportunities are conveyed to children at pre-school and school will influence their willingness to consider those paths in later life.

Full details can be found at: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/department-for-education-areas-of-research-interest

Next steps

Get in touch with research.engagement@education.gov.uk

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