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May 23, 2016

The British Council and Inspiring Women China are calling on the G20 nations to renew their commitment to women’s economic empowerment

May 23, 2016

On 24-26 May 2016, the Chinese government will host Women-20 (W20) – a G20 outreach group launched in 2015 to focus on promoting gender-inclusive economic growth. W20 aims to harness support to increase women’s participation in the global economy and greater prosperity for the world. As reported by McKinsey, realising gender equality could add an […]

May 20, 2016

Primary Futures inspires pupils in Folkestone with our coastal towns campaign

May 20, 2016

Primary Futures, run by charity Education & Employers, organsied an event at St Eanswythe’s Primary School in Folkestone with Sam Gyimah, Childcare and Education Minister, on Thursday 19th May 2016. It saw employee volunteers come together to raise the aspirations of primary school children by talking with pupils face-to-face about their job and career. The […]

May 18, 2016

Careers talks ‘boost future earnings’

May 18, 2016

Young people aged 14-15 from all backgrounds, could be earning an additional £2,000 by their mid-20s simply by more exposure to the world of work through career talks at school, new research has found. The research was undertaken by Elnaz Kashefpakdel and Christian Percy and commissioned by the charity Education and Employers was published in […]

May 18, 2016

Inspiring Women in Business & Enterprise at London Stock Exchange

May 18, 2016

Today 100 state school girls had the opportunity to participate in a ‘career speed networking’ event with high profile women in business and enterprise at London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG) and had the rare opportunity to participate in the iconic market opening. The UK boasts some fantastic female business leaders and entrepreneurs and the gap […]

April 27, 2016

How working with volunteers boosts schools and colleges careers information and advice provision in line with Ofsted’s Common Inspection Framework

April 27, 2016

A new guide has been published by Education and Employers, the charity behind the Inspiring the Future programme and its Inspiring Women and Primary Futures campaigns. The guide is designed to help schools and colleges better understand how working with volunteers from the world of work can boost their careers information and advice provision in […]

April 13, 2016

Inspiring South Korea

April 13, 2016

The Education and Employers charity has supported the work of Sue Yang from the Seoul Education Office in South Korea. Sue undertook a tour to gain an insight into work experience and employer engagement in the UK as well as other European countries. During her visit to the UK Sue visited several employers to see […]

April 13, 2016

Inspiring Apprenticeships at Saint George’s School in Kent

April 13, 2016

Inspiring the Future, a free career insight programme for state school students, has organised an Apprenticeship awareness raising event at Saint George’s School in Gravesend Kent with an array of volunteers from the Civil Service. Twenty-five school students aged 16 – 18 attended the session and had open conversations with the volunteers about their jobs […]

March 24, 2016

Civil Service tackles social mobility

March 24, 2016

Minister for the Cabinet Office & Paymaster General, Matthew Hancock, has announced that the Government will develop a ground-breaking new national standard set of measures of socio-economic background, which will be used to measure and so manage social mobility in the Civil Service and beyond. The announcement was made at a ‘career speed networking’ event […]

March 23, 2016

Help us to #RedrawTheBalance

March 23, 2016

A new film reveals the reality of gender stereotyping amongst primary school children. When asked to draw a firefighter, surgeon and a fighter pilot, 61 pictures were drawn of men and only 5 were female. Please could you help raise awareness of this deep-seated issue by forwarding the film to friends and colleagues. Share on […]

March 18, 2016

Inspiring Women in Dance at Sadler’s Wells theatre

March 18, 2016

The Inspiring Women Campaign teamed up with English National Ballet and Sadler’s Wells theatre to show girls in state schools and colleges the range of careers in the dance sector. 100 girls aged 13 – 18 did ‘career speed networking’ at Sadler’s Wells with women working in different jobs across the dance sector. The aim […]