November 29, 2011
November 29, 2011
For the UK Silicon Valley to flourish the Government and educators must work more closely with employers to close young peoples’ IT skills gap. The good news is that the IT employment sector is growing 5 times faster than the UK average. Read the full Guardian story.
Read moreNovember 28, 2011
November 28, 2011
Social mobility in the UK is lagging behind other nations, says a major new Sutton Trust report. Life chances remain stubbornly linked to your parent’s education. Read the full Telegraph article.
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November 28, 2011
Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg backs the English Baccalaureate (Ebbac) to boost languages study, despite what Labour refers to as the associated ‘set of negatives’. Read the full Guardian article.
Read moreNovember 25, 2011
November 25, 2011
The Times Educational Supplement (TES) special Speakers for Schools and Inspiring the Future supplement is published today. It marks the creation of these new Taskforce initiatives that are free to all state schools and colleges. Read the Times Education Supplement special edition.
Read moreNovember 24, 2011
November 24, 2011
Cities in England with high youth unemployment must do more to raise young people’s attainment in maths and English, a report says. Research by Centre for Cities found a strong link between results in English and maths and youth joblessness. It found that between 2007 and 2010, an average of almost 50% of pupils in […]
Read moreNovember 24, 2011
November 24, 2011
The (NAHT) Leadership Focus magazine latest issue carries a ‘Speak up’ article about the launch of charity Speakers for Schools. Read the National Association of Headteachers’ full article.
Read moreNovember 22, 2011
November 22, 2011
New report from the Centre for London (incubated by Demos) on how London pupils can access HE, including the importance of aspiration, careers advice, social mobility and the value of high skills to the UK economy. Simon Hughes, who helped launch the report, advises that the Access HE model in the London report should be […]
Read moreNovember 18, 2011
November 18, 2011
Are you ready? is a national campaign to create a culture of enterprise in education. The mission is to call on the government to make enterprise and entrepreneurship a key part of every young person’s education, part of teacher training and development and part of the Ofsted inspection framework for schools and colleges.
Read moreNovember 17, 2011
November 17, 2011
Louise Archer, Professor of Sociology of Education at King’s College London, spoke at a free Taskforce research seminar about young peoples’ career aspirations aged 10 – 14. She shared the findings from a five year longitudinal study.
Read moreNovember 17, 2011
November 17, 2011
One million young people in Britain are being denied the essential life skill of ‘knowing how to work with others’. Read the full Guardian story.
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