Youth drop-out blackspots mapped
…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….
…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….
…of UK engineering graduates are working in non-graduate jobs or unskilled work such as waiting on tables and shop work, research from Birmingham University suggests. Read the full BBC story….
…faced with pupils who have never had any boundaries in their home lives – where there has never been a sense of right and wrong. Read the full BBC story….
…half GCSE science students – by the time they reach university science departments they are outnumbered by men by a factor of two to one. Read the full BBC story….
…qualifications gap emerges from a new University and Colleges Union (UCU) study. In some parts of Britain 35% of adults have no qualifications at all. Read the full BBC story….
…to talk to pupils about their jobs, and give pupils the opportunity to ask questions about how to obtain and qualify for them. Read the full BBC story and report….
…The Sutton Trust is launching an Education Endowment Foundation (EEF) targeting this group of children, using £125m of government money and income from other sources. Read the full BBC story….
…Moves to relax the limit on places for students who get AAB grades at A-level are widely expected in the forthcoming higher education White Paper. Read the full BBC story….
…last year, twice as many as expected. Business Secretary, Vince Cable, said the government was determined to “break down barriers between academic and vocational learning”. Read the full BBC story….
…on the 7% of young people the independent sector educates, to provide such a high proportion of future generations of scientists, engineers, medics or linguists.” Read the full BBC story….