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A £82m loan scheme for young people wanting to create a business has been launched by David Cameron today. People aged between 18 – 24 can apply for funds, expected…

As the school holidays start a TES/ Education and Employers Taskforce survey shows that 96% of teachers are ‘concerned’ about the future employment prospects of their pupils. See the full…

Professions such as law, journalism and medicine must do more to widen their intake, the deputy prime minister’s social mobility adviser, Alan Milburn says. There needs to be a bigger…

State school students face a damaging gap in enterprise skills. Education and Employers Taskforce and Pearson Think Tank research shows a huge variation in access to enterprise education. Read the…

Many employers are providing remedial classes for school and college leavers. A third of 542 firms surveyed for the Confederation of British Industry and Pearson were unhappy with youngsters’ literacy…

With fees set to hit £9,000 and no rise in the proportion of state school applicants to the top universities, Dr Steven Jones reports on a proposed remedy that may…

Enterprising Minds is a Carnegie UK research project that explores the attitudes of young people to enterprise, education, and the future in a fast changing economy. It incorporates 70,000 unique…

More English teenagers are leaving education without a job to go to. Government statistics show a rise in NEETs. Read the full story. Inspiring the Future can help those who…

The 2 July saw the national launch of free volunteering in education initiative Inspiring the Future. To mark the launch scores of leading employers took part in a careers networking…

A total of 89% consultation respondents are in favour retaining Work Related Learning statutory provision which is facing removal by the Government. Read the full consultation document: Consultation report –…