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The Fair Education Alliance-Support Kevan Collins and EPI Investment Call – Letter 9 June The Fair Education Alliance and a cross-sector coalition of over 200 businesses, educationalists, charities and young people ‘who are dedicated to improving educational outcomes for the disadvantaged children in this country’ wrote to the Prime Minister on 9 June supporting Kevan……

Calls for £40m urgent investment in careers provision by Engineering UK  Published: 09 June 2021 A new report calls on government to invest £40 million in improving access to careers provision for students in schools and colleges in England to enable more young people to understand the opportunities available in science, technology, engineering and maths……

The Inaugural BFELG Conference took place on Tuesday, 23 February 2021. It was held online in partnership with Google for Education, and skillfully compered by Rosemary Campbell-Stephens MBE.Rosemary is a veteran, inspirational educator, who embraces the label ‘disruptor’. Her breadth of experience is international. This report summarises the presentations and key messages of the keynote……

The Skills and post-16 Education Bill will be introduced in Parliament today (18 May), underpinning the government’s skills and training revolution. The Skills Bill was mentioned during the Queen’s Speech last week and today FE News has an exclusive article from Gavin Williamson outlining his vision to put skills at the top of an ambitious legislative agenda, to……

A new research report from the Resolution Foundation A Briefing Note from the Resolution Foundaon finds that that 16-24-year-olds have accounted for a disproportionately large share (57 per cent) of the fall in employment that’s occurred over the past year. 16-24 year old Blacks the most  adversely affected group  – https://www.resolutionfoundation.org/app/uploads/2021/04/Uneven-steps.pdf  The Foundation says ‘……