With National Apprenticeship Week on the horizon, Qube Learning has collated some useful information surrounding apprenticeships for your benefit. Why an Apprenticeship should be looked at as a practical pathway to sustainable success With further education options a credible, viable route to positive learning and development, more and more people are enrolling on programmes like…
Read more
THE LATEST NEWS ON THE LEVELLING UP WHITE PAPER: The Levelling Up White Paper is launched – with a range of services to transform education and opportunities for the most disadvantaged to level up the nation including: National Youth Guarantee: Backed by £560 million worth of investment IoT’s may apply for a Royal Charter. The criteria…
Read more
An article available on FE News reports that the “`Education Commttee has launched an inquiry into careers education, information, advice and guidance (CEIAG) for children and young people.” The new inquiry will explore whether current careers advice provides young people with sufficient guidance about career choices, employment, training, and further and higher education opportunities. It will also look at how…
Read more
In a report published by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF): UK Poverty 2022: The essential guide to understanding poverty in the UK, the foundation has examined how the pandemic has had an impact on those who are less well off. Link for full report: https://www.jrf.org.uk/file/58886/download?token=XLbzxN7W&filetype=full-report ‘Another worrying element of the pandemic is how it is…
Read more
Extract Mark Jenkinson MP …. The (Private Members) Bills Sponsor “ ….The Bill extends careers advice down from the current year 8 to year 7 to ensure that children are given the information they need to make the best possible choices at the earliest juncture. The sooner we can provide children with careers options, the…
Read more
In this FE News article produced by the Institute for Fiscal Studies the authors inform us : “The average working-age woman in the UK earned 40% less than her male counterpart in 2019 @TheIFS. This is because, among 20- to 55-year-olds not in education, long-term sick or retired: -Women are 9.5 percentage points less likely…
Read more
Not Just Any Job Young people do not believe the work available to them is of good quality For those still in education, a common issue is the low quality of work experience Young people feel let down by the quality of careers support they receive Not just any job, good jobs! Youth voices from…
Read more
In the October issue of Careers Matters , the Careers Development Institiute (CDI) monthly magazine for the Career Develpment Sector, an article has been published, written by Deirdre Hughes. The article highlights progress made in the development of chatbots and in particular a bot developed specifically for careers. As the title above suggests this chatbot…
Read more
Robert Halfon MP November 19, 2021 FE News At the Autumn Budget, the Chancellor committed to a skills revolution with a funding increase of 42% to be spent on increasing skills provision. We know that our nation faces skills challenges from the fourth industrial revolution, an ageing workforce and the devastating impacts of COVID-19 so…
Read more
Following the success of the pilot project ‘Our Future Derby’, the re-branded ‘Our Future’ project is now being extended to primary schools across Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham and Nottinghamshire. The project offers a wonderful opportunity to celebrate what schools and employers are doing together to make a real difference to children’s lives. It aims to inspire pupils and challenge the way they think about the…
Read more