December 12, 2011
December 12, 2011
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 the talk.
Read moreDecember 8, 2011
December 8, 2011
The aim of the Tomorrow’s Engineers programme is to increase the pipeline of future engineers. They will do this by endeavoring to reach every state-funded secondary school in the UK to improve awareness about engineering and what engineers do among pupils and their teachers. Read Tomorrow’s Engineers programme.
Read moreDecember 6, 2011
December 6, 2011
Seb Coe today visited Oak Lodge School, a SEN deaf school in Wandsworth, to give a talk and launch a special week of Olympic and Paralympic figures giving talks in state schools and colleges. The talk was organised through the Education and Employers Taskforce and Speakers for Schools initiative to encourage leaders in their field […]
Read moreDecember 5, 2011
December 5, 2011
The country’s top civl servant, Sir Gus O’Donnell, spoke at Goffs School in Waltham as part of the new Speakers for Schools initiative. Read the story – Sir Gus creates a buzz
Read moreDecember 5, 2011
December 5, 2011
When Morrisons planned a new store in the employment black spot of Salford, it promised to give jobs to local youngsters. Of the 210 staff who will start work when the store opens tomorrow, half left school with not a single GCSE to their name. Morrisons sent back 150 of them for three to six […]
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December 5, 2011
Robert Peston talks to The Times magazine about being the voice of the recession, a sense of fairness and his new charity Speakers for Schools. Read the full Robert Peston article
Read moreNovember 30, 2011
November 30, 2011
The Education and Employers Taskforce Expert Group on Research has three new members: Dr Tricia Le Gallais (Birmingham City University), Tami McCrone (National Foundation for Educational Research) and Zamila Bunglawala (The Young Foundation).
Read moreNovember 29, 2011
November 29, 2011
For the UK Silicon Valley to flourish the Government and educators must work more closely with employers to close young peoples’ IT skills gap. The good news is that the IT employment sector is growing 5 times faster than the UK average. Read the full Guardian story.
Read moreNovember 28, 2011
November 28, 2011
Social mobility in the UK is lagging behind other nations, says a major new Sutton Trust report. Life chances remain stubbornly linked to your parent’s education. Read the full Telegraph article.
Read moreNovember 28, 2011
November 28, 2011
Shadow Education Secretary Stephen Twigg backs the English Baccalaureate (Ebbac) to boost languages study, despite what Labour refers to as the associated ‘set of negatives’. Read the full Guardian article.
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