November 16, 2011
November 16, 2011
Professor John Van Reenen, Director of the Centre for Economic Performance at the LSE, describes growing youth unemployment as “a long running problem, rather than something that has just happened”. Read the full BBC story.
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November 16, 2011
The jobless total for 16 to 24-year-olds hit a record high of 1.02 million in the quarter. Read the full BBC story.
Read moreNovember 15, 2011
November 15, 2011
The Taskforce’s Inspiring the Future initiative will get entrepreneurs into state schools and colleges across England in partnership with the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). This is on the volunteering menu alongside ‘career insight’ talks about the job you do and the route you took.
Read moreNovember 14, 2011
November 14, 2011
Apprenticeships are not helping enough young people out of unemployment, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research. Read the full BBC story.
Read moreNovember 10, 2011
November 10, 2011
Speakers for Schools brings people at the top of their profession into state schools and colleges around the country to inspire and broaden the horizons of pupils. It is the brainchild of BBC business editor, Robert Peston, and administered by the Taskforce. Read the Yorkshire Post feature.
Read moreNovember 9, 2011
November 9, 2011
The Education and Employers Taskforce and Pearson Enterprise Education Project event is on 14 November at Pearson Headquarters, the Strand, 5pm – 6pm. The Taskforce will present interim findings from a joint research project with the Pearson Centre for Learning and Policy on enterprise education. The review asks three key questions about the future of […]
Read moreNovember 7, 2011
November 7, 2011
Lifetime earnings value of degrees to be revealed for the first time as the official workforce survey will start to ask respondents about institution attended and subject. Read the full Telegraph story.
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November 7, 2011
Work experience is seen as an increasingly important step towards a pupil securing their dream career. But new research suggests that those who attend independent schools are much more likely to gain real benefits from it than their state-sector counterparts. Read the full Times Educational Supplement story.
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November 4, 2011
UK youth drop-out and NEET blackspots have been mapped in a new report by the Work Foundation. The report blames a tough jobs market and cuts to youth services and education. Read the full BBC story.
Read moreNovember 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.
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