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January 18, 2018

Drawing The Future published

January 18, 2018

Survey of 20,000 primary school children has significant implications for social mobility and gender equality. Read Drawing The Future Report (PDF) Education and Employers, today launched a landmark report, Drawing the Future, which revealed that the difference between children’s career aspirations from age seven to 17 are marginal, and too often based on gender stereotypes, socio-economic […]

January 15, 2018

Inspiring Women in Mexico

January 15, 2018

Inspiring Women is inspiring primary school children as far afield as Mexico. Modelled on the UK campaign, Human Rights Awareness ran their own Inspiring Women event bringing together a range of successful women to talk to over 100 children aged 8-12. The event took place at of Colegio Nueva Laguna school, a school in the […]

January 11, 2018

Review of international evidence on employer engagement in education published

January 11, 2018

The research team at Education and Employers has published a review of the evidence on how employers can support schools to improve outcomes for pupils. The report, commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) follows the publication of the Government’s Careers Strategy in December of last year, which announced funds to explore new approaches to employer […]

December 8, 2017

UK-China Roundtable on Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment

December 8, 2017

Education and Employers were delighted to take part in the first ever ‘UK-China Roundtable on Gender Equality and Women’s Economic Empowerment’. The roundtable, part of the high-level UK-China People-to-People Dialogue discussed important themes around women in the workplace and initiatives to improve gender equality. […]

December 6, 2017

New careers Strategy published by the Department for Education

December 6, 2017

On Monday 7th December the Department for Education published its long awaited new Careers Strategy. Read the Careers Strategy. It sets out the Government’s plan for raising the quality of careers provision, outlining how they will work closely with careers organisations, careers professionals, schools, colleges, universities and employers. The strategy pays particular attention to […]

November 21, 2017

Sandon School take career footsteps into the NHS

November 21, 2017

As part of Health Education England’s #StepintotheNHS competition, Sandon School in Chelmsford, Essex, ran a Career Footsteps event that focused on careers in the health sector. The #stepintotheNHS competition is running to help raise awareness of the 350 roles that a career in the NHS has to offer. This event brought together Year 9 students […]

November 17, 2017

The launch of the Year of Engineering with Primary Futures

November 17, 2017

On Thursday 16th November Minister of State at the Department for Transport, John Hayes CBE MP visited Allenby Primary School in Southall, Ealing, to take part in a Primary Futures event in which volunteers from the world of engineering were broadening children’s horizons around the vast range of exciting roles this sector holds. See all […]

November 13, 2017

New research shows link between academic achievement and encounters with employers

November 13, 2017

One in five secondary school students receive positive impacts on their academic achievement from encounters with the world of work, teachers believe say a new report by the charity Education and Employers Read: Making the Grade In this new report by the research team at Education and Employers, kindly supported by LifeSkills created with Barclays, […]

November 8, 2017

Career Footsteps in action

November 8, 2017

Theale Green School in the village of Theale, Berkshire, seized the opportunity to get a flying start back into the school term with their very own Career Footsteps event! This event brought together three volunteers with over 70 Theale Green year 7 students for a series of talks and workshops. This was the first careers […]

October 26, 2017

Leading by example: how one primary school is broadening pupils’ horizons and raising their aspirations

October 26, 2017

We are delighted to have thousands of primary schools across the country signed up to our Primary Futures progamme, getting volunteers from the world of work to visit them and help their children link their learning to their futures. Leading the way in illustrating how Primary Futures and its database of over 38,000 volunteers is […]