Work experience favours independent-school pupils
Work experience is seen as an increasingly important step towards a pupil securing their dream career. But new research suggests that those who attend independent schools are much more likely…
Work experience is seen as an increasingly important step towards a pupil securing their dream career. But new research suggests that those who attend independent schools are much more likely…
Lifetime earnings value of degrees to be revealed for the first time as the official workforce survey will start to ask respondents about institution attended and subject. Read the full…
Shadow education secretary, Stephen Twigg, calls for a culture change in the UK for high-level practical courses to be viewed with as much prestige as degrees. Parents are ‘urged to…
The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is calling on the government to introduce a new tax incentive to encourage companies to take on young unemployed people, as part of a…
Young people are ‘aiming high but with no idea of how to get there’. Low aspirations are not found to be the biggest problem. A gap has exists between their…
A study has investigated the problem of early school leaving (ESL).It found one in seven young Europeans leaves the education system without the skills or the qualifications necessary to make…
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…