November 14, 2011
November 14, 2011
Apprenticeships are not helping enough young people out of unemployment, according to the Institute for Public Policy Research. Read the full BBC story.
Read moreNovember 10, 2011
November 10, 2011
Speakers for Schools brings people at the top of their profession into state schools and colleges around the country to inspire and broaden the horizons of pupils. It is the brainchild of BBC business editor, Robert Peston, and administered by the Taskforce. Read the Yorkshire Post feature.
Read moreNovember 9, 2011
November 9, 2011
The Education and Employers Taskforce and Pearson Enterprise Education Project event is on 14 November at Pearson Headquarters, the Strand, 5pm – 6pm. The Taskforce will present interim findings from a joint research project with the Pearson Centre for Learning and Policy on enterprise education. The review asks three key questions about the future of […]
Read moreNovember 7, 2011
November 7, 2011
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 Telegraph story.
Read moreNovember 7, 2011
November 7, 2011
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 to gain real benefits from it than their state-sector counterparts. Read the full Times Educational Supplement story.
Read moreNovember 4, 2011
November 4, 2011
UK youth drop-out and NEET blackspots have been mapped in a new report by the Work Foundation. The report blames a tough jobs market and cuts to youth services and education. Read the full BBC story.
Read moreNovember 3, 2011
November 3, 2011
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 be as proud of an apprenticeship place as a university place’. Read full Guardian story.
Read moreOctober 31, 2011
October 31, 2011
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 package of measures aimed at boosting employment across the UK. The Young Britain Credit – announced in the CBI’s Action for Jobs report – would […]
Read moreOctober 26, 2011
October 26, 2011
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 aspirations and their understanding of how to realise them, a new Glasgow University study shows. Read the full Times Educational Supplement story.
Read moreOctober 21, 2011
October 21, 2011
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 a successful transition to the labour market. The UK is one of eight countries (along with Bulgaria, Greece, Spain, Italy, Malta, Portugal, Romania) in 2009 […]
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