The demand for skilled people will intensify during the recovery, and employers’ top recruitment priorities are employability skills such as problem solving and team working, above exam results, a new…
The Education and Employers Taskforce is sponsoring its first research conference to bring together leading academics and analysts from the fields of education policy and human resource management to share…
The date for the Education and Employers Taskforce Visit our Schools campaign has been confirmed as the week of 18 – 22 October 2010. To sign up for campaign bulletins…
The first Enterprise Education Unconference will take place 12-13 May 2010 in Gijón, Spain. It is an open event to engage in a fruitful conversation about the present and future…
…as the financial value accrued by businesses running such schemes. Commissioned by the City of London Corporation and produced by Corporate Citizenship, the report – ‘Volunteering: the Business Case’ –…
The Taskforce and its partners are planning a major campaign with the aim of encouraging leading CEOs from the private and public sectors, at the invitation of headteachers, to “visit…
Richard Lambert, Director-General of the Confederation of British Industry (CBI), and an Education and Employers Taskforce Trustee, made a speech to a Deloitte breakfast meeting entitled ‘Breaking the cycle of…
SSAT hosted a policy forum of business and school leaders to champion school/employer partnerships. The event also saw the launch of Creating effective partnerships with employers: guidance for teachers. Produced…
The EDGE Annual Programme of Stakeholder Research: Business in Schools published in January 2010 found that many teachers did not think there were enough opportunities for children to experience the…
The Speakers for Schools special ‘Olympics 2012 week’ – in partnership with London 2012 – ended with a talk by gold medal winner Jonathan Edwards in Edinburgh. Watch footage from…
