Professions must be ‘more open’ to all backgrounds
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…
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…
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…
The latest edition of Taskforce News has been published today. This issue covers the launch of Speakers for Schools the week of 10 October across schools in England and our…
The Sept/Oct issue of the National Union of Teacher’s (NUT) The Teacher magazine carries a news story about our soon to be launched Inspiring the Future volunteering in education initiative….
Ed Balls backs a petition calling for financial education to become a compulsory part of the school curriculum. If the petition gets 100,000 signatures, the issue will be eligible for…
A mentoring project to encourage able students from disadvantaged backgrounds to apply to the top universities is a success. Read the full Telegraph story….
Nearly a quarter of UK engineering graduates are working in non-graduate jobs or unskilled work such as waiting on tables and shop work, research from Birmingham University suggests. Read the…
The leading European conference on education and employer engagement takes place at Warwick University on 12 October. This year’s keynote speaker is Professor Robert Schwartz, Academic Dean, Harvard University. The…
Pearson and the Education and Employers Taskforce are asking for your views in a research project on enterprise education. This research will explore three key questions: What is enterprise education?…
The Independent Reviewer on Social Mobility & Child Poverty, Alan Milburn, has launched his call for evidence. It explores questions around how child poverty and social mobility are linked, what…