March 7, 2011
March 7, 2011
The Education and Employers Taskforce and the University of Warwick have launched a free research seminar programme. The next speaker is Professor Ewart Keep, Cardiff School of Social Sciences, and the topic is Education and Industry – an overview and critique of current thinking on 23 March 2011. It will explore topics that get shunted […]
Read moreMarch 3, 2011
March 3, 2011
The Wolf Report has been published by Department for Education. Professor Alison Wolf was asked by the Education Secretary, Michael Gove, to conduct a review into vocational education for 14 to 19 year olds. Read the full report.
Read moreMarch 2, 2011
March 2, 2011
Pharmaceutical firm GlaxoSmithKline is the first major employer to announce that it will pay tuition fees for its new trainees. The company said it would cover the fees of about 100 graduate recruits, with a support budget of £3m a year. This shows the increasing importance of young people having contact with employers before entering […]
Read moreFebruary 28, 2011
February 28, 2011
“Is Science Me? High School Students’ Identities, Participation and Aspirations in Science, Engineering and Medicine” report and summary now available.
Read moreFebruary 28, 2011
February 28, 2011
‘Time to Read – a 10 year review’ is available in summary and as a full report. This Business in the Community commissioned report looks at business volunteers helping deprived pupils with literacy.
Read moreFebruary 28, 2011
February 28, 2011
A new scheme called IT Ambassadors has been set up by e-skills UK as part of the drive to excite young people about the potential of technology, and to give them a better understanding of the creativity of an IT career. IT Ambassadors is a partner scheme to STEM Ambassadors. More than 40 guides are […]
Read moreFebruary 18, 2011
February 18, 2011
How can CSR be made to matter? The Evening Standard’s Christ Blackhurst talks about the culture change needed for the Big Society to be successful. For the Big Society to be a truly transformative mass movement it needs to be made to appeal to companies. Read the London Evening Standard article.
Read moreFebruary 18, 2011
February 18, 2011
Schools will be held accountable for the career success of their pupils under a government plan to publish information about the proportion who go on to university or get jobs after they leave. The plan is part of a strategy to increase pressure on schools to deliver good outcomes for pupils. Ministers are concerned that […]
Read moreFebruary 16, 2011
February 16, 2011
A record number of 16 to 24-year olds are out of work and more people than ever are in part-time jobs because they can’t find full-time employment, official figures revealed today. The youth unemployment rate is now 20.5% following a 66,000 increase to 965,000, the highest figures since records began in 1992. This adds to […]
Read moreFebruary 15, 2011
February 15, 2011
Almost twice as many teenagers are studying science in Scotland compared with the rest of the UK, according to a leading scientific institution. The Royal Society has said schools elsewhere in the UK should look north to emulate successes in the Scottish education system, and have called for an overhaul of the A-level system to […]
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