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January 22, 2014

Inspiring Women: 100 girls ‘career speed date’ with high profile women including Samantha Cameron and Miriam González Durántez in Basildon

January 22, 2014

The Basildon Upper Academy is the first school in the UK to host an event as part the national Inspiring Women campaign. The campaign, run by the Education and Employment Taskforce, aims to get 15,000 women volunteering to give up an hour a year and go into a schools or colleges near where they live […]

January 17, 2014

Graduates earn less than Apprentices

January 17, 2014

The Office for National Statistics finds that graduates are more likely to find themselves in low-paid jobs and are earning less than people who decide to do an apprenticeship instead of going to university. Read the Telegraph story.

January 15, 2014

Inspiring the Future is recruiting a Schools Liaison Assistant

January 15, 2014

Inspiring the Future is recruiting a Schools Liaison Assistant on a 6 months fixed term contract at £18k per annum. The aim of Inspiring the Future is very simple, it is to get people to volunteer to spend at least an hour per year visiting a school and talking to young people about their job […]

January 14, 2014

Apprenticeship events in schools and colleges – funding available

January 14, 2014

Could your school/college hold a funded awareness-raising careers event about apprenticeships for young people aged 16 – 18 at some point between February and July 2014? We are inviting proposals from schools/colleges interested in delivering apprenticeship awareness-raising careers events aimed at 16 to 18 year olds between February and July 2014 using apprentice volunteers through […]

January 10, 2014

Inspiring Women motion graphic unveiled

January 10, 2014

The Inspiring Women motion graphic has been unveiled. Watch our Inspiring Women cartoon to understand the aims and objectives of the campaign. Inspiring Women explained in seconds.

January 7, 2014

Inspiring the Future Schools and Colleges Guide out!

January 7, 2014

The new Inspiring the Future Schools and Colleges Powerpoint has been published as an easy steps users guide for teachers. easy steps Schools and Colleges Guide.

December 16, 2013

Give poor children vouchers for extra tuition says Sutton Trust

December 16, 2013

The government should give means-tested vouchers to working class families to help them buy their children some of the advantages that more affluent families can afford, the Sutton Trust suggests. Read the full Channel 4 story.

December 9, 2013

Schools reinforce subject gender stereotypes says IoP

December 9, 2013

The Institute of Physics says 49% of state-funded mixed schools in England are “reinforcing gender stereotypes” in terms of the subjects students study at A-level. It says these schools are failing to counter the idea that certain subjects are for girls and others are for boys. Read the full BBC story.

December 3, 2013

UK doesn’t make top 20 in international tests

December 3, 2013

For the first time, the UK does not make the top 20 in any subject, in international tests taken by 15 year olds in maths, reading and science. Within the UK, Scotland outperformed England at maths and reading, but Wales is below average in all subject, in the Pisa tests run by the OECD. The […]

November 29, 2013

Girls aspire to see gender balance in leadership positions

November 29, 2013

Girlguiding’s new report Sexism, harassment and inequality: the daily reality for UK’s girls’ has been published. There’s a call for urgent attitude change as the research from Girlguiding reveals a stark state of inequality. One of the findings is that girls still see gender inbalance in leadership positions from politics to economics, which hampers aspiration. […]