November 29, 2018

Winners of primary school Drawing the Future competition meet their career heroes

November 29, 2018

Winners of our Drawing the Future competition received their prizes at an awards ceremony at the British Academy and were thrilled to meet career models representing the jobs they drew. The nine winners were selected by judges – Neal Layton, author and illustrator; Ann Mroz, editor and digital publishing director of TES and Darren Henley […]

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November 15, 2018

Starting early – the importance of career-related learning in primary school

November 15, 2018

This article is an extended version of the blog Primary career education should broaden children’s horizons by Nick Chambers (CEO, Education and Employers) published by TES on 14 November 2018. The last few months have seen a sudden interest and enthusiasm for ‘careers education’ in primary schools. But many teachers and parents have expressed their concerns […]

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November 9, 2018

A Celebration of British Engineering with Aston Martin, Brompton Bicycle and the RAF

November 9, 2018

Aston Martin, Brompton Bicycle and the RAF – three iconic British brands – joined forces yesterday at a Primary Futures event to inspire and broaden the horizons of children about engineering.  Children from Broughton Fields Primary School in Milton Keynes met people doing a range of interesting jobs and were shown that engineering is open […]

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June 9, 2018

Secretary of State and IoD call on employers to support school governance

June 9, 2018

We are delighted that the Secretary of State for Education and the Institute of Directors are calling on employers to encourage their staff to become school governors. Addressing the National Governance Association Summer Conference in Manchester, Damian Hinds thanked governors for their hard work and commitment.  At the same time, he made a plea for […]

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March 30, 2018

Health Ambassadors for NHS70

March 30, 2018

As part of the NHS 70th birthday celebrations, NHS70 are partnering Inspiring the Future to launch the Heath Ambassadors campaign to get more front line NHS staff into schools talking about the breadth of interesting roles available and encouraging school children of all ages to consider a career in the NHS.

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March 27, 2018

Work of the charity featured on Malaysian TV news and current affairs programme

March 27, 2018

Education and Employer’s CEO, Nick Chambers was interviewed by Kamarul Bahrin, Vice President & Deputy Editor-in-Chief of Astro Awani, the Malaysian news and current affairs channel. The 30 minute interview which took place at Davos during the World Economic Forum looked at how schools can tackle some of societies issues such as  social mobility, diversity and gender stereotyping […]

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March 21, 2018

‘Drawing a scientist’ test in the US supports Drawing the Future findings

March 21, 2018

Children in the US are drawing more women scientists than in previous decades, according to a new study by researchers at Northwestern University in the United States. They have analysed five decades of “Drawing the Scientist” test designed to investigate children’s perceptions of the scientist. When asked to draw a scientist, less than one per […]

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March 15, 2018

Inspiring the Future calls for No More Female CEOs

March 15, 2018

Inspiring the Future's new campaign NO MORE FEMALE PROFESSIONALS asks whether the language we all use when talking about jobs, contributes to the problem of unconscious gender bias which limits the opportunities that children perceive they have.

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March 12, 2018

Article by Dr. Elnaz Kashefpakdel for FE News. Teenage apprenticeships: awareness deficit?

March 12, 2018

Read the article in FE News here. Over recent years significant public resource has been devoted to improving young people’s awareness of apprenticeships. Yet while teenage applications have increased, teenage apprenticeship starts have stagnated. Recent government data has shown that fewer than 26% of apprenticeship starts come straight from school or college. If apprenticeships are […]

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