November 3, 2011
November 3, 2011
Shadow education secretary, Stephen Twigg, calls for a culture change in the UK for high-level practical courses to be viewed with as much prestige as degrees. Parents are ‘urged to be as proud of an apprenticeship place as a university place’. Read full Guardian story.
Read moreOctober 31, 2011
October 31, 2011
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is calling on the government to introduce a new tax incentive to encourage companies to take on young unemployed people, as part of a package of measures aimed at boosting employment across the UK. The Young Britain Credit – announced in the CBI’s Action for Jobs report – would […]
Read moreOctober 26, 2011
October 26, 2011
Young people are ‘aiming high but with no idea of how to get there’. Low aspirations are not found to be the biggest problem. A gap has exists between their aspirations and their understanding of how to realise them, a new Glasgow University study shows. Read the full Times Educational Supplement story.
Read moreOctober 21, 2011
October 21, 2011
A study has investigated the problem of early school leaving (ESL).It found one in seven young Europeans leaves the education system without the skills or the qualifications necessary to make a successful transition to the labour market. The UK is one of eight countries (along with Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Romania) in 2009 […]
Read moreOctober 20, 2011
October 20, 2011
The Government is looking to provide grant funding to help scale up and improve brokerage between businesses and the youth sector (young people aged 13-19) in England. The specification document is now published. Funding of £70,000 in 2011-12 and £250,000 in 2012-13 is available for an organisation or consortium to deliver the requirements of this […]
Read moreOctober 19, 2011
October 19, 2011
A new Joseph Rowntree report has been published about ‘Influence of parents, places and poverty on educational attitudes & aspirations’. This report aims to better understand the relationship between young people’s aspirations and how they are formed. It highlights a mismatch between career aspirations and the reality of the local labour market. Read the full […]
Read moreOctober 10, 2011
October 10, 2011
Speakers for Schools inspires pupils. One of the first speakers to take part in the programme was Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg who addressed pupils at Charles Edward Brooke School for Girls. Watch: Camberwell pupils ‘inspired’ by Speakers for Schools. Read the Speakers for Schools launch week press release. See other new Taskforce initiatives
Read moreOctober 10, 2011
October 10, 2011
BBC business editor Robert Peston’s Speakers for Schools is being launched this week with a series of 25 talks in state secondary schools and colleges by high profile speakers such as: Martha Lane Fox Nick Clegg George Alagiah Andy Haldane and Baroness (Shriti) Vadera. Speakers for Schools is being administered by the Education and Employers […]
Read moreOctober 5, 2011
October 5, 2011
The Taskforce is taking part in a conference on ‘Social mobility and education: improving life chances, raising aspiration and widening access to the professions’ with Alan Milburn, the Government’s Independent Reviewer on Social Mobility and Child Poverty, taking place in London on 14 December 2011. Read the event agenda.
Read moreOctober 5, 2011
October 5, 2011
A new independent evaluation of the Creative Apprenticeships programme provides evidence of their ‘significant economic impact’. The evaluation was conducted by non-profit sector consultants Baker Tilly and the Education and Employers Taskforce. Read the full evaluation report.
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