August 5, 2011
August 5, 2011
Overhaul of careers advice will “reduce substantially the capacity to deliver career support in FE”, claim experts at Derby University. They argue that FE colleges are being marginalised by the new market in careers support that is being created, which focuses on the needs of schools.
Read moreAugust 3, 2011
August 3, 2011
Subtle ‘Bond girl and frump’ messages in the media and society put girls off science, say academics. Although girls make up more than half GCSE science students – by the time they reach university science departments they are outnumbered by men by a factor of two to one. Read the full BBC story.
Read moreJuly 28, 2011
July 28, 2011
BBC journalist Mark Easton talks on News at Ten about the impact of budget cuts on career information, advice and guidance (IAG) for young people.
Read moreJuly 25, 2011
July 25, 2011
A ‘two Britains’ qualifications gap emerges from a new University and Colleges Union (UCU) study. In some parts of Britain 35% of adults have no qualifications at all. Read the full BBC story.
Read moreJuly 21, 2011
July 21, 2011
All schools in England should channel university scholarships to their poorest pupils, the deputy Liberal Democrat leader Simon Hughes has said. This would end the situation where some schools sent ‘no pupils’ to university. Hughes recommends that primary schools should as a minimum arrange for 10 and 11 year olds careers events where parents and […]
Read moreJuly 19, 2011
July 19, 2011
University access: why some schools are so much more ‘successful’ than others? How can one school get more pupils into top universities than another with the same exam marks? Read the full Guardian story.
Read moreJuly 13, 2011
July 13, 2011
Andy Burnham, the Shadow Education Secretary, outlines his vision for a rethink of comprehensive education in a speech at think-tank Demos. “Reward, reach, relevance – these will be my 3Rs,” he says. Read the full speech: 21st Century Learning: what do young people need to succeed in the modern world?
Read moreJuly 11, 2011
July 11, 2011
Andy Burnham, the shadow education secretary, says secondary schools should give pupils more vocational opportunities. Labour calls for schools to teach ‘route into work’. Burnham will this week reveal plans to give every secondary school pupil a path to employment if they met a set of required standards, under a revamped curriculum, more geared to […]
Read moreJuly 11, 2011
July 11, 2011
The gap between the poorest pupils and their better-off peers in struggling schools in England is wider than in other schools, research suggests. White British pupils “seemed to pose the biggest challenge”, the study says. The Sutton Trust is launching an Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) targeting this group of children, using £125m of government money […]
Read moreJuly 11, 2011
July 11, 2011
New research by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) investigated how higher education can increase the uptake of high-quality work experience by students and graduates, including broadening the range of employers that offer placement opportunities.
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