Our Knowledge and Expertise
Education and Young People
HOST has wide experience of both policy and operational issues in key current policy areas including for pre-16 education, the development of 14-19 education, engaging disaffected and low attaining young people, enabling progression, employability and enterprise education for young people, partnerships in pre-16 vocational education. In post-16 education and training, HOST is one of the few independent and specialist research groups looking at new approaches to post-secondary vocational education and training for young people (under 19), and has been involved in applying research to shaping many of the government initiatives developed in this area since the early 1990s – including apprenticeships, entry to employment programmes, key and foundation skills, enhanced careers education and guidance, and most recently the Foundation Learning Tier.
In addition, HOST has been actively involved both as policy researchers and evaluators with many of the key developments for initial and continuing education of teachers in schools, colleges, and the independent sector, as well as subject-based pedagogical developments, leadership and non-professional workforce development in schools, colleges and other providers.
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“HOST’s expertise in educational policy helped ensure that a valid, well accepted and useful evaluation was produced.”