January 5, 2012
January 5, 2012
School day should be extended to get children ready for the world of work, Labour suggests. Shadow education secretary, Stephen Twigg, backs longer hours in the classroom as he launches a review of how schooling can be made more relevant to the 21st century. Read the full story.
Read moreJanuary 4, 2012
January 4, 2012
The Centre for Social Justice think-tank suggests ‘C Volunteering’ tax relief for companies who encourage employee volunteering. Read the full story.
Read moreDecember 20, 2011
December 20, 2011
National curriculum changes have been pushed back by the government until 2014. The longer timescale is to allow further debate. Labour’s Stephen Twigg MP urges cross-party talks to achieve consensus over the national curriculum. Read the full BBC story.
Read moreDecember 14, 2011
December 14, 2011
A new research report The economic case for language learning and the role of employer engagement published today the Education and Employers Taskforce argues the economic case for language learning in Britain and how employers can help. The decline in language learning is holding back both young people and UK plc. The report highlights consistently […]
Read moreDecember 12, 2011
December 12, 2011
The Speakers for Schools special ‘Olympics 2012 week’ – in partnership with London 2012 – ended with a talk by gold medal winner Jonathan Edwards in Edinburgh. Watch footage from the talk.
Read moreDecember 8, 2011
December 8, 2011
The aim of the Tomorrow’s Engineers programme is to increase the pipeline of future engineers. They will do this by endeavoring to reach every state-funded secondary school in the UK to improve awareness about engineering and what engineers do among pupils and their teachers. Read Tomorrow’s Engineers programme.
Read moreDecember 6, 2011
December 6, 2011
Seb Coe today visited Oak Lodge School, a SEN deaf school in Wandsworth, to give a talk and launch a special week of Olympic and Paralympic figures giving talks in state schools and colleges. The talk was organised through the Education and Employers Taskforce and Speakers for Schools initiative to encourage leaders in their field […]
Read moreDecember 5, 2011
December 5, 2011
The country’s top civl servant, Sir Gus O’Donnell, spoke at Goffs School in Waltham as part of the new Speakers for Schools initiative. Read the story – Sir Gus creates a buzz
Read moreDecember 5, 2011
December 5, 2011
When Morrisons planned a new store in the employment black spot of Salford, it promised to give jobs to local youngsters. Of the 210 staff who will start work when the store opens tomorrow, half left school with not a single GCSE to their name. Morrisons sent back 150 of them for three to six […]
Read moreDecember 5, 2011
December 5, 2011
Robert Peston talks to The Times magazine about being the voice of the recession, a sense of fairness and his new charity Speakers for Schools. Read the full Robert Peston article
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