Why should employers engage with schools?

The benefits to the employer:

• Positive public relations
• Employee development
• Recruitment of local employees in the future
• Commissioning young people and their teachers to carry out projects and research with real-life outcomes
• Understanding how the company is viewed by the young people who are its future customers
• Enabling young people to understand the nature of an organisation’s work
• Corporate social responsibility.

The benefits to the school:

• Collaboration between employers and schools brings to life young people’s learning for, about and through work.
• Experiences of work (both in and out of school) are an essential part of:

• Applied learning
• Vocational learning
• Enterprise learning