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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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March 1, 2018

New apprenticeship report reveals gender stereotyping and negative perceptions are major issues

March 1, 2018

The report, funded by the Commercial Education Trust, revealed that the negative perceptions around apprenticeships among students, teachers and parents hampers take-up and highlights how more needs to be done to ensure equal guidance for both academic and vocational pathways and challenge views about the suitably of different apprenticeships across genders. The report demonstrates the […]

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February 13, 2018

Inspiring Wakefield launches at South Parade Primary School

February 13, 2018

Primary schools across Wakefield are running a series of inspiring events throughout spring, designed to inspire children about the huge range of interesting and exciting career possibilities available to them. Inspiring Wakefield will launched on 13 February at South Parade Primary with volunteers from a wide range of interesting careers, coming in to schools to […]

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February 7, 2018

Career Footsteps at Westfield Arts College

February 7, 2018

Westfield Arts College rounded off January by hosting a Career Footsteps event, which saw a small diverse group of volunteers engage with around 50 students. Westfield Arts College is a 4-19, Dorset special school serving the needs of 180 children and young people with moderate and complex learning difficulties. Half of the pupils have a […]

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February 2, 2018

Inspiring a Future in Childcare launches next phase with speed-career networking at Park High school

February 2, 2018

Inspiring a Future in Childcare in partnership with The Department for Education and Tinies Childcare aims to inspire children to consider a future in childcare by showing them the wide range of career opportunities available in the sector. The campaign challenges individual and sector wide perceptions about the childcare profession and the stereotypes that have […]

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February 1, 2018

Using technology to revolutionise young people’s understanding of the world of work

February 1, 2018

Salesforce has played a crucial role in making our free national network of volunteers for schools a reality. It enabled a radical innovation in ways in which schools and colleges could connect with local employers. The goal was to find a way of harnessing technological innovation to identify huge numbers of prospective volunteers, nationally and make them available to schools effectively, efficiently and equitably.

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January 25, 2018

Drawing the Future launched at Davos today

January 25, 2018

This morning, Our Drawing the Future report was presented to the world’s political and business leaders at Davos. The international report revealed for the first time that gender stereotypes start at a very young age and that it is a global issue. The live streamed event from Davos discussed how these stereotypes may be a […]

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