Really excited about Skills Northern Ireland 2018. This is our 3rd year and already we have over 6,500 young people already registered to attend. I feel very privileged and proud to be chairing this innovative and highly interactive event. This year we are offering an exciting opportunity to a young person (female and male) to…
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Ethnicity facts and figures Today I met with Zamila Bunglawala, Deputy Director – Strategy and Insight, Race Disparity Unit at the Cabinet Office (in the red jacket above), who presented “the world’s first comprehensive ethnicity facts and figures dataset” at the Education and Employers and The Edge Foundation International Conference, London. She’s a Senior Civil Servant…
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The new Skills Panorama is here! Cedefop is pleased to announce the redesign of the Skills Panorama website. Faster to navigate and easier to use, the new Skills Panorama aspires to broaden its user groups and welcome guidance practitioners. The website has many new features worth exploring such as: Improved search engine, based on the ESCO classification,…
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WORKING IT OUT: CAREER GUIDANCE AND EMPLOYER ENGAGEMENT WORKING IT OUT: CAREER GUIDANCE AND EMPLOYER ENGAGEMENT A new report published by the OECD (2nd July 2018) looks at the features of good career guidance practice, including the need for schools to begin early and the essential role of exposure to the world of work. To access…
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Spotlight on 16-year-olds as NEETs rise and level 2 apprenticeships fall Figures released by the Department for Education (DfE) show that the proportion of 16-year-olds that are NEET has risen (0.7 percentage points to 3.9 per cent) for the first time since the end of 2011. Billy Camden from FE Week states this is “the…
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I recently came across this really interesting ‘Training the Trainers’ approach, designed by Gerard Liston at the Forum Talent Potential – http://www.forum-talent-potential.org/wp-content/uploads/getting-started.pdf This tried-and-tested approach offers innovative Careers Leadership training, including open access to content-rich resources within a massive open online course (MOOC) that enables teachers and careers advisers to put the Gatsby principles into action…
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In celebration of International Women in Engineering Day (#INWED), the Women’s Business Council’s Starting Out group in collaboration with BAE Systems, Willmott Dixon and Manufacturing Technology Centre (MTC) launched ‘Inspire the next generation: engaging young people in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM)’. This guide for small businesses offers support for organisations interested in becoming…
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There remains a need to address marked gender imbalances in several areas of STEM learning and work—demonstrated, for example, by the fact that only 8% of STEM apprenticeship starts are undertaken by women. Yet another report highlighting the quality of careers advice in schools is patchy at best, perpetuating misconceptions about STEM careers. The notion…
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This newly published report presents inspection findings on the quality of education, training and work in prisons in England. It draws upon relevant government policy documents and research reports linked to evidence-based policies and practices. To access the full report : Prisons FINAL report website 210618 Key findings incorporate evidence drawn from: a review of 45…
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In July 2017, Prospects commissioned us undertake an international literature review of education and training in prisons. This report draws upon key findings from the UK, Europe and internationally. The work is set within the context of a recommissioning of education and skills in England’s prisons in 2018. The aim of the review is to…
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