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It is a widely accepted notion that involving parents in careers education and guidance (CEG) is highly desirable. Although parents and carers undoubtedly influence the career development of young people in their care, with a range of consequences, robust evidence of what, when and how parental behaviours constructively support their children鈥檚 learning about career progression remains elusive.

Sally-Anne Barnes, with Jenny Bimrose, Alan Brown and John Gough, have been undertaking an international evidence review to understand how parents and carers can be better supported by schools and colleges to feel more informed and confident in how they support education and career choices. This has been undertaken with the support of the Gatsby Foundation and the JP Morgan Chase Foundation. This study has produced a wealth of experiential evidence on the engagement of parents, as well as an overview of what is happening in practice.

The evidence report has now been published. Sign up to find out more or join an upcoming webinar. Read the press release here.

The new article written by Professors and IER鈥檚 Clare Lyonette addresses two sizable gaps in knowledge concerning male part鈥恡imers. Are men's part鈥恡ime jobs of lower quality than men's full鈥恡ime jobs? Are male part鈥恡imers more or less satisfied with their jobs compared to their full鈥恡ime peers? For both questions, the article examines whether men's part鈥恡ime employment varies by occupational class.

The article is motivated by the large body of work on female part鈥恡imers, even though male part-time work has been increasing in recent years. Its theoretical framework is rooted in one of the most controversial discussions in the sociology of women workers: the 鈥済rateful slave鈥� debate that emerged in the 1990s when researchers sought to explain why so many women expressed job satisfaction with low鈥恞uality part鈥恡ime jobs. Innovatively, this article draws upon and challenges those contentious ideas to provide new insights into male, rather than female, part鈥恡ime employment.

The results provide clear evidence of low鈥恞uality male part鈥恡ime employment in the UK, when compared with men's full鈥恡ime jobs. Men working part鈥恡ime also express deteriorating satisfaction with jobs overall and in several specific dimensions of their jobs. Male part鈥恡imers in lower occupational class positions retain a clear 鈥渓ead鈥� both in bad job quality and low satisfaction. For more details see .

Traditional data sources do not have the timeliness or the level of detail that many organisations using labour market information (LMI) need. NESTA is funding a project on novel sources of data that can yield reliable LMI in real time and at a level of detail (granularity) that can satisfy even local area organisations such as Skills Advisory Panels, Local Enterprise Partnerships and learning providers.

Derek Bosworth is leading this work and would like to invite you to identify your data needs by filling in a very short questionnaire, which can be found here.

Sally-Anne Barnes will be delivering the keynote presentation at the upcoming Mutual Learning webinar 'Measuring employability' for the European Network of Public Employment Services.

The event will be held on 27 February and is organised by FGB. Sally-Anne will be drawing up on her recent work on distance travelled models and trends in profiling jobseekers. The presentation entitled 'Measuring the distance travelled and soft outcomes for long-term unemployed people' will discuss evidence on distance travelled models as a way of monitoring and evaluating labour market programme recipients鈥� outcomes and progression to the labour market.

The notion that involving parents in careers education and guidance (CEG) is highly desirable is neither new nor innovative. Although parents undoubtedly have the potential to influence the career development of young people in their care, both positively and negatively, robust evidence of what, when and how parental behaviours constructively support their children鈥檚 learning about career progression remains inconclusive and elusive.

Sally-Anne Barnes, with Jenny Bimrose, Alan Brown and John Gough, have been undertaking research to understand how parents and carers can be better supported by schools and colleges to feel more informed and confident about the careers support and advice they give. This has been undertaken with the support of the Gatsby Foundation and the JP Morgan Chase Foundation. This study has produced a wealth of experiential evidence on the engagement of parents , as well as an overview of what is happening in practice. A recent event held in London to share findings and interesting practice was attended by participants from across the UK. An evidence report will be published shortly along with a practice report. Sign up to find out more or join an upcoming webinar here.