Research sponsorship and bursaries

…education, employer engagement or work in areas that are of interests to the Edge Foundation and Education and Employers. We aim to support students to attend a national or international



ASPIRES

Participation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) is an international priority for government, industry and the science education policy and practice community. There is widespread concern that participation in…


Latest issue of Taskforce News

This edition covers the launch of the Inspiring the Future campaign to get 100,000 people to volunteer in education to give insights into careers, an update on Robert Peston’s Speakers…


Funding for poorer pupils helps ‘more boys than girls’

…shows. Factors include that boys in this group have a tendency towards truancy and bad behaviour while girls are ‘present in class’ but quietly under-achieving. Read the full story: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/funding-for-poorer-pupils-helps-more-boys-than-girls-study-shows-9877806.html#…



The Lifetime Skills Guarantee – choosing or gambling?

…make well informed choices. The International Labour Organization (ILO) published a large-scale global research paper about young people’s aspirations on entering the labour market just before the Government’s announcement and



OECD says gender pay gap larger in UK

The UK has scored below average for education and skills in a worldwide study of the best places to live and work. Britain’s rich-poor divide also widened at a faster…


Calls for FE teachers to do ‘work experience’

“world of work, business and industry”. He backed calls for further education teachers to carry out their own form of work experience each year, “gaining first-hand experience in the workplace…