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….
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…
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….
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…
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…
