Education and Employers

Helping schools evidence Gatsby benchmarks

The Department for Education adopted the Gatsby Benchmarks as the benchmarks of best practice careers provision. Inspiring the Future has a network of over 45,000 employee volunteers from the world…

Inspiring the Future: A Year

…of the Gatsby Benchmarks and increasing their careers provisions. With over 50,000 volunteers signed up nationally, schools and colleges have run a range of exciting events. One such schools is…

Children from across New Zealand take part in Drawing the Future

…hopes and aspirations for the future. The national survey has been organised by the New Zealand Tertiary Education Commission/Te Amorangi Mātauranga Matua. The Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) is the Government’s…

Bringing a bit of festive cheer to children: Festive Futures

…which features Santa, joining us virtually from New Zealand ahead of his World Tour, and a version for KS2 (children aged 7-11). The videos have been made by our staff…

Webinar announced to launch new report on The Value of Volunteering

…people. This tallies with research Education and Employers has done with young people over the last ten years which shows that encounters with volunteers from the world of work helps…

Schools talks to mark NHS’s 75th anniversary

…hundreds of NHS staff will give school talks during the 75th anniversary year, with thousands of children across the country benefiting. Professor Sir Stephen Powis, National Medical Director, NHS England…

Child's drawing of themself as an artist

What do primary children in Hong Kong want to be when they grow up and what do they think success is?

…transition from education to the world of work. Pictured above are the youth representative to the conference Kelly Lin, the HKJC’s Executive Director of Charities and Community Dr Gabriel Leung…

Building a Better “Pathways to Careers” System in the US

…and teachers learn about the world of work, and overcoming the stigma still attached to vocational education. The US has a history of tracking low performing and low-income students into…

Creative Apprenticeships: Assessing the Return on Investment, Evaluation and Impact

…numbers up to 400 in year 5). Work experience and HE admissions (July 2011) This research explores how ‘experience of the world of work’ feeds into admissions to Russell Group…

What German schools do to engage employers in education

By Birgit Reusrath (teacher) and Jürgen Parussel (Careers Teacher) Schule – am – Hexbachtal/ Hauptschule/ Muelheim an der Ruhr/ Germany First of all, every school has a careers teacher, a…