Streaming exacerbates disadvantage and under performance

Moves to reintroduce more setting and streaming in UK state schools are fuelling a “vicious cycle” of underperformance, particularly amongst disadvantaged youngsters, a top-level international study warned yesterday. One in…


The Queen’s Awards for Enterprise

…success. A total of 156 Queen’s Awards have been announced in 2011, with 102 companies winning awards for international trade, 44 for innovation and 10 for sustainable development. The deadline…


Taskforce research conference 2011 details announced

Details of the Education and Employers Taskforce research conference 2011 entitled ‘Exploring social mobility and delivery mechanisms in international perspective’ are now available on our dedicated conference website. Here you…


The point of partnership explained

The Point of partnership: the case for employer engagement in education written by the Education and Employers Taskforce has been published in respected international journal Strategic HR Review. The primary…