Young adult competencies?

Speaker: Luke Bocock, National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER)

Investigating cross-country differences in young people’s skill development and identifying factors associated with high-performance

In this seminar, Luke Bocock, director of research at the NFER will present their recently published report on cross-country differences in young people’s skill development and factors associated with high-performance. This report is part of series of publications from the Nuffield funded "Skills Imperative 2035" project.

Most education system leaders are keen to learn from other ‘high performing’ systems beyond their borders, given education systems, despite their differences, share some common objectives and grapple with some similar challenges. However, important gaps in the international, cross-country evidence base have, arguably, led to national and international institutions focusing on too narrow a range of cognitive outcomes and placing too great a focus on identifying ‘best practice’ and cherry picking features that appear to work effectively elsewhere. The positive effects of this may be limited without an in-depth understanding of the common features associated with high-performance across the existing literature, the inter-relationships between these features, how they can be combined differently, and how their effects are moderated by the contexts in which they operate.

• This is a hybrid event and registration is essential to let us know if you will be joining the event in person or online and to receive the link to MS Teams. 
• This event is free and open to the university staff and students .
• Please note, this event is not being recorded.