New research by the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) investigated how higher education can increase the uptake of high-quality work experience by students and graduates, including broadening the…
Edge Foundation and the University of Glasgow have teamed up to research the employability of UK graduates. The report sets out recommendations including placing employability at the centre of HEIs’…
Andy Burnham, the Shadow Education Secretary, outlines his vision for a rethink of comprehensive education in a speech at think-tank Demos. “Reward, reach, relevance – these will be my 3Rs,”…
University access: why some schools are so much more ‘successful’ than others? How can one school get more pupils into top universities than another with the same exam marks? Read…
All schools in England should channel university scholarships to their poorest pupils, the deputy Liberal Democrat leader Simon Hughes has said. This would end the situation where some schools sent…
A ‘two Britains’ qualifications gap emerges from a new University and Colleges Union (UCU) study. In some parts of Britain 35% of adults have no qualifications at all. Read the…
Universities UK reveals that 63% of students have volunteered since starting university. The Education and Employers Taskforce’s Inspiring the Future campaign aims to get 100,000 people volunteering in education, including…
A new scheme from the James Dyson Foundation hopes to inject passion into design and technology teaching. Under a new initiative, to be launched in September, the country’s best DT…
Subtle ‘Bond girl and frump’ messages in the media and society put girls off science, say academics. Although girls make up more than half GCSE science students – by the…
The OECD is developing a Skills Strategy with the aim of fostering a cross-government, peer-learning approach towards improving the supply of, anticipating the demand for, and optimising the use of…
