The Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Women campaign launches today with a ‘career speed networking’ event hosted by Miriam González Durántez with 100 girls from 11 state secondary schools talking jobs…
Today the Work Foundation and TUC unveiled a new report on the UK’s gender jobs spilt. The report shows that progress towards reducing gender stereotyping in employment has been non-existent…
The UK has scored below average for education and skills in a worldwide study of the best places to live and work. Britain’s rich-poor divide also widened at a faster…
Almost two thirds (60%) of UK employers feel the UK government does not do enough to support skills education. Nearly three quarters (72%) said they viewed vocational qualifications as essential…
Britain’s schools must be “more than just exam factories”, a cross-party parliamentary group says. It argues that more importance should be given to the development of “character and resilience” schools…
A study by the Institute for Public Policy Research found that teenagers taking lower-level vocational qualifications were three times more likely to be classed as NEET – not in education,…
Ministers may block a new generation of technical schools amid concerns children do not want learn ‘a trade’ from the age of 14. Read the full Telegraph story….
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…
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…
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…
