CSW Group has been commissioned by The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) and The Careers and Enterprise Company (CEC) to deliver a Work Experience Project to year 10 students in schools across the South West.
The project is research based and will be part of a randomised control trial to demonstrate the impact of work experience on young people. The evaluation will be conducted by the National Federation for Educational research (NFER).
130 schools will be engaged with half receiving the delivery of the programme and the other half forming the ‘control group’. Schools are randomly allocated into one of these groups; those that fall into the control group will receive a financial payment for their participation. The programme will be delivered in the current (2017/18) academic year.
The project will work with schools to deliver a work preparation day to equip all students with a range of employability skills and enable them to engage with employers through a range of activities such as CV writing and mock interviews. A small cohort of students will then be selected to take part in the work experience programme where they will have the opportunity to apply for a work placement through an application and interview process. Successful students will then be supported with briefing and debriefing either side of their placement. CSW group will also be supporting employers to devise their work placement programme, and is particularly keen to engage with new employers who don’t currently offer work placements.
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