Education and Employers

Academies, American style

The annual conference of the National Academies Foundation is big: 1,400 people from schools and employers from across the United States, all engaged in some way or another with the…

Inspiring apprenticeships with Airbus

…the world of work. Students learnt about the different jobs and apprenticeships at Airbus, and attended presentations from current and past apprentices, a Graduate Project Demonstration – Space Oddity –…

Inspiring young people about careers in hospitality at the Grosvenor House Hotel

…House Hotel in Mayfair, London. The first event of the year brought together over 100 students from schools across London. Volunteers were in attendance from organisations including Red Carnation Hotels,…

Glaxo first major employer to announce it will pay tuition fees of recruits

…100 graduate recruits, with a support budget of £3m a year. This shows the increasing importance of young people having contact with employers before entering the workforce. Read the full…

Tackling young unemployment and ‘under employment’

In this economic climate, with such high rates of graduate unemployment, should school leavers give far greater consideration to vocational qualifications? The debate intensifies. Read the full Guardian story….

Harvard School of Education calls for sea-change in employer engagement

A Harvard Graduate School of Education report calls for a sea change in business and employer engagement in education, so that every American school student to have access to employer…

Harvard professor to speak at Taskforce research conference

The Taskforce’s 2011 research conference keynote speaker is Professor Robert Schwartz who is Francis Keppel Professor of Practice of Educational Policy at Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a…

Charity warns of need to “promote employability in higher education”

…systematic failure to “promote employability across higher education”, meaning a “notable majority” of graduates were unable to function in the workplace. Universities were also advised to set up more work…

Inspiring Women in Sport launches at the BT Tower

…Women in Sport and to be hosting the launch. We actively support and showcase women in sport across our channels and this volunteering campaign to encourage girls to consider a…

Not ‘Just a Student’: A Qualitative Exploration of Business, Psychology and Law Students’ Accounts of their Placement Experiences

…projects. Her own degrees include a Masters in Social Psychology from the London School of Economics. Download Karen Powell-Williams presentation. Watch the full seminar Part 1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTbht0N8LCs Part 2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zTMgpM8a9U…