‘Who you know matters more than what you know’
Polling finds that the public believe ‘who you know’ matters more than ‘what you know’ in modern Britain. Report published by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission. Read the…
Polling finds that the public believe ‘who you know’ matters more than ‘what you know’ in modern Britain. Report published by the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission. Read the…
Independent schools should end their “splendid isolation” and work with state schools, says England’s chief inspector of schools. Sir Michael Wilshaw said there was a moral obligation to help raise…
Many of the poor children being left behind in schools now are in suburbs, market towns and seaside resorts rather than big cities, England’s chief inspector of schools has said….
The quality of careers guidance is not good enough, with many young people leaving school or college with little knowledge of the workplace, CBI Director-General John Cridland told headteachers. Careers…
Anthony Salz, founding chairman of the Education and Employers Taskforce has been knighted in the Queen’s Birthday Honours. Others knighted include Brendan Barber, former TUC general secretary who was a…
Following a public consultation in 2012 on extending access to careers guidance, all further education (FE) colleges and sixth-form colleges will be subject to a new requirement to secure access…
A new London Assembly report calls for careers services to be improved in the capital as it reveals one in six jobs in London is unfilled because there is no-one…
The European Union Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, Androulla Vassiliou, will address Cedefop’s conference on tackling skill mismatch through work-based learning and apprenticeships (12-13 June 2013 in Greece)….
The job will involve working in close association with the Inspiring the Future Programme Director and the Inspiring the Future team. The Schools Liaison Assistant is responsible for working closely…
Companies should ignore unpaid internships and degree classifications during the recruitment process to create a “level playing field”. The study by the Association of Graduate Recruiters and Association of Graduate…