May 18, 2016
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 […]
Read moreMay 18, 2016
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 […]
Read moreApril 27, 2016
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 […]
Read moreApril 13, 2016
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 […]
Read moreApril 13, 2016
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 […]
Read moreMarch 24, 2016
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 […]
Read moreMarch 23, 2016
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 […]
Read moreMarch 18, 2016
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 […]
Read moreMarch 11, 2016
March 11, 2016
The Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) has partnered with Bank of America Merrill Lynch to investigate ways to improve outcomes for young people through careers education, it was announced today. The organisations have jointly commissioned a review of evidence to identify the most effective types of careers education and to determine the current state of careers […]
Read moreMarch 8, 2016
March 8, 2016
One of China’s most successful businesswomen, Yang Lan, has agreed to become the Chinese patron of the newly launched Inspiring Women China initiative. Yang Lan is a self-made entrepreneur and is highly influential within the Chinese media. As chair of the Sun Media Group and the Sun Culture Foundation, Ms Yang started her journalism career […]
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