Primary Futures:Northern Ireland dmh associates brokers the first Primary Futures event to be held in Coleraine, Co. Londonderry, N.Ireland. I grew up in the 1970s in Coleraine during ‘the troubles’ and over the years I have recognised an urgent need to find a way of raising children’s aspirations from an early age, particularly in areas…
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Teachers lose faith in school curriculum to equip students with skills for jobs, says Edge report A new report by the Edge Foundation highlights today (15 April 2019) – http://www.edge.co.uk/sites/default/files/documents/skills_shortage_bulletin_4_web-1.pdf “Nearly half (47%) of teachers believe there are fewer opportunities to enable their students to develop employability skills and competencies since the introduction of the reformed GCSEs and…
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Reported in the i newspaper today “More than 20 universities have been accused by the Education Secretary of using “unethical” admission practices that are “trapping” students into accepting higher education places. Damian Hinds is writing to 23 named institutions warning that applicants are being “backed into a corner” to accept offers.” : https://inews.co.uk/news/education/education-secretary-calls-out-universities-over-unethical-admission-practices/ The Education…
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  A newly launched think tank called EDSK has today released its first report  https://www.edsk.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/Requires-Improvement.pdf  written by the Director Tom Richmond and is entitled “Requires Improvement” where it concludes “Ofsted occupies an important position in our education landscape and the process of inspecting schools can, if done in an appropriate and proportionate way, have a…
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  Consultation on Qualifications: Closing date 10 June 2019 DfE has published its consultation on Level 2 and below qualifications. This is mainly focused on young people but it also has significant longer-term implications for adults. Also, there important issues to be addressed regarding what happens if these qualifications are not made available for young…
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Hidden Links, New Opportunities – New Zealand As the government agency responsible for careers, the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) is tasked with supporting all New Zealanders to raise skills and aspirations to meet the demands of work, now and in the future. Around 1.2 million people in New Zealand start a new job each year…
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Education inspection framework 2019: inspecting the substance of education Proposals Ofsted welcomes your views on its proposals for changes to the education inspection framework. Your feedback will help Ofsted refine and improve its proposed approach before finalising and publishing the framework in summer 2019. They propose to make changes to the education inspection framework, which will…
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It has been a privilege to work with PEF Impetus and Adviza careers practitioners and managers on the co-creation of a new Framework of Intensive Support (FIS) for young people and adults – https://www.adviza.org.uk/products/fis-cards What has impressed me the most is career development professionals’ enthusiasm within Adviza for a practical careers resource that can easily be applied…
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Ken Skates AM, Minister for Economy and Transport in Wales had published a written statement on “The Employability Plan – One Year On”.   He referenced ‘Job Support Wales’,  the new name given to the programme formerly known as Working Wales. Job Support Wales will have three strands: (i) Youth Engagement; (ii) Youth Training and (iii)…
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