…as the financial value accrued by businesses running such schemes. Commissioned by the City of London Corporation and produced by Corporate Citizenship, the report – ‘Volunteering: the Business Case’ –…
The Taskforce and its partners are planning a major campaign with the aim of encouraging leading CEOs from the private and public sectors, at the invitation of headteachers, to “visit…
Capita’s National Skills and Apprenticeships Conference takes place 16 March 2010 in London. It follows the recent publication of the Skills for Growth Strategy and the introduction of the Apprenticeships,…
Richard Lambert, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), and an Education and Employers Taskforce Trustee, made a speech to a Deloitte breakfast meeting entitled ‘Breaking the cycle of…
SSAT hosted a policy forum of business and school leaders to champion school/employer partnerships. The event also saw the launch of Creating effective partnerships with employers: guidance for teachers. Produced…
The EDGE Annual Programme of Stakeholder Research: Business in Schools published in January 2010 found that many teachers did not think there were enough opportunities for children to experience the…
The Speakers for Schools special ‘Olympics 2012 week’ – in partnership with London 2012 – ended with a talk by gold medal winner Jonathan Edwards in Edinburgh. Watch footage from…
The aim of the Tomorrow’s Engineers programme is to increase the pipeline of future engineers. They will do this by endeavoring to reach every state-funded secondary school in the UK…
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….
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….
