November 13, 2019
November 13, 2019
BBC Teach have just unveiled a series of short films which look at how schools and careers practitioners from across the UK approach careers support and examines what’s working well for them. One of the films looks at what Ballysally Primary School in Coleraine, Northern Ireland, is doing to raise aspirations. The Headteacher Geoff Dunn […]
Read moreNovember 11, 2019
November 11, 2019
What do young people feel about the future? A new international survey is being launched today looking at what 14-18 year olds think about the future. The findings will be published in a report entitled “Facing the Future” with the OECD during the World Economic Forum in late January 2020 in Davos. The international survey asks 14-18 […]
Read moreOctober 22, 2019
October 22, 2019
Over ten years ago Business in the Community (BITC) published their landmark report ‘Governing our Schools’. The report was written by BITC’s Director of Education Nick Chambers and his team for the National Council for Educational Excellence, which at the time was looking at how to make employer engagement in education easier and better for […]
Read moreOctober 15, 2019
October 15, 2019
Children as young as seven risk ruling out future job options because of their gender, race and background, according to the OECD’s Director of Education and Skills Andreas Schleicher. Speaking ahead of the formal launch of the I Am #InspiringTheFuture campaign, he said the stubborn skills gaps in the UK labour market are rooted in […]
Read moreOctober 15, 2019
October 15, 2019
Education & Employers is launching a new campaign to establish and maintain a national network of 100,000+ professionals to inspire millions of children and young people. The charity has signed-up more than 55,000 volunteers since 2013, from national CEOs to apprentices on their first job – who are “match-made” with schools via a free, online […]
Read moreOctober 11, 2019
October 11, 2019
Education and Employers & Speakers for Schools have joined together to publish a new report evaluating the impact of external speakers in secondary schools. Insights and Inspiration: Evaluating the impact of guest speakers in schools evaluated the approaches taken by both leading independent and state schools to structuring and investing in talks and the impact on student […]
Read moreOctober 4, 2019
October 4, 2019
As the new academic year starts, we are pleased to announce that Primary Futures will be expanding to work with more schools over the next academic year thanks to funding from AKO Foundation and the Department for Education / Careers & Enterprise Company Primary Fund. Primary Futures received the largest amount of funding from the […]
Read moreOctober 4, 2019
October 4, 2019
Zoe Mawson, Head Teacher, Beckfoot Heaton Primary School & Nursery, Bradford Our school serves an area of high deprivation in Bradford, West Yorkshire, within one of the 10% most deprived wards in the country. In 2016, we created a 3 year vision which we named, “Growing To Be Great”. Prior to this, expectation and ambition […]
Read moreSeptember 18, 2019
September 18, 2019
Education and Employers has today published a new article entitled ‘What is a meaningful encounter with the world of work?’. It is now widely accepted that meaningful encounters with the world of work are vitally important for all young people. But what is meant by a ”meaningful encounter”? This article has been written in response […]
Read moreAugust 27, 2019
August 27, 2019
Education and Employers is pleased to have contributed to the new joint report launched by WorldSkills and the OECD. This new report aims to better understand the attitudes of young people when it comes to future technologies, their perceptions about how technological change will impact their work opportunities, and whether they feel if they are […]
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