The Government is looking to provide grant funding to help scale up and improve brokerage between businesses and the youth sector (young people aged 13-19) in England. The specification document…
A new Joseph Rowntree report has been published about ‘Influence of parents, places and poverty on educational attitudes & aspirations’. This report aims to better understand the relationship between young…
A new independent evaluation of the Creative Apprenticeships programme provides evidence of their ‘significant economic impact’. The evaluation was conducted by non-profit sector consultants Baker Tilly and the Education and…
The Taskforce is taking part in a conference on ‘Social mobility and education: improving life chances, raising aspiration and widening access to the professions’ with Alan Milburn, the Government’s Independent…
The shadow education secretary, Andy Burnham, has called for the creation of a national UCAS-style system for apprenticeships to provide a clear path for teenagers who do not go to…
How state schools can benefit from looking at the ways independent schools engage with the private sector? Attend our Education and Employers Taskforce and Times Educational Supplement (TES) free Manchester…
A quarter of teenagers say they have never received any careers advice, according to poll conducted for City and Guilds. The survey of 15-19 year olds found those on vocational…
The gap in numbers of people from the richest and poorest sections of society going to university in England has narrowed, the Institute for Fiscal Studies think-tank says. Their study…
Apprenticeships need reform to provide growth boosting skills say MPs. A Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) committee urges apprenticeship schemes to be more ambitious. Read the full story….
The iCeGS annual lecture will be presented this year by Professor Ewart Keep, Deputy Director of the ESRC Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance based at Cardiff University. The…
