Depending on your personal slant on the grammar this can either refer to a particularly attractive set of business-people or to the new ways that are being developed to enable employers to become involved in the latest 14-19 developments.
With the latest Education White Paper came a much deeper commitment to provide young people with not only work knowledge and skills but also with direct opportunities to sample work in all its glories. Over the next ten years the Government has set out a challenging agenda to link employers and work-experience into school and college life and also to provide updating and enhanced work experience for teachers and tutors.
Pye Tait has spent the past several months investigating the best ways of linking busy employers to the curriculum, to school and college courses, and to workplace experience. The SSC network is right at the forefront of employer involvement in education and skills. The Pye Tait report on employer engagement will form a useful underpinning to the process.