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The government has announced an £82.5 million loan scheme called StartUp that will provide the next generation of entrepreneurs the finance and support to potentially start over 30 thousand new businesses. The scheme will be available for 18–24yr olds to gain access to loans, experts and personal support to help them to develop business plans and access training. Where the business plan is robust and approved, they will be able to access financial support in the form of...
The Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) and the Association of Colleges (AoC) have announced that they are to work together in supporting senior leaders in schools and colleges in fulfilling their obligation to students around the provision of careers guidnace. The move follows on from the changes to national careers provision and the statutory regulations regarding the provision of careers advice following the Education Act 2011.
...The National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), has published a report outlining the various approaches, for assisting young people at risk of becoming NEET's (not in education, employment or training). These include strategic-level (national and local-level policy) approaches and practice-level (preventative and reintegration) methods.
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The Department for Business, Innovation and Skill has announced that it’s supporting a new initiative to boost enterprise and new business start-up called the Startup Career Milkrounds. The initiative aims to see up to 4,000 entrepreneurial university students and graduates in England being connected with small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs).
The Startup Career Milkrounds is part of the Government’s enterprise education package and...
The Higher Education Policy Institute has published a report into academic experience of students at English universities. This is the fourth such survey that they have conducted; the first one was conducted in 2006.
The purpose of conducting the original survey was to create a baseline against which changes in the future of student experience could be observed. The original survey was conducted when students before...
The unemployment rate for 16 to 24 year olds was 21.9% in the three months to March 2012, down 0.3% from the three months to December 2011. In the three months to March 2012, there were 3.63 million 16 to 24 years olds in employment, up 2,000 from the three months to December 2011. There were 2.64 million economically inactive 16 to 24 year olds (most of whom were in full-time education), up 5,000 on the three months to December 2011. There were 1.02 million...
The Department for Education has launched a consultation on whether independent and impartial careers advice should be extended down to year 8 students and upwards to students up to the age of 18. The provision of providing independent careers advice to year 9-11 students is part of the Education Act 2011. This new duty comes into effect from September this year.
With the government committed to raising the participation age to 17 by...
Skills Minister John Hayes has announced that the Government has received 269 bids from employers looking to take part in the governments new pilot of allowing business to design and develop their own vocational training programmes.
The Employer Ownership pilot invited the first round of bids earlier in the year for a share of the £250 million fund which will route public investment directly to employers – enabling them to invest in the training and skills development they need to grow...
The Skills Minister John Hayes has appointed careers expert Dr Deirdre Hughes OBE as the Chair of the new National Council for Careers.
The council will be a driving force for excellence in careers guidance and will provide independent, expert advice to the Government on the future development of the National Careers Service, which was launched at the beginning of April, see here for details.
...The Careers Profession Alliance (CPA) is a new overarching body that comprises leading careers professional associations. It aims to develop and promote a code of ethical principles and professional standards across the UK to which all careers professionals should work towards. This will provide all those who offer career development services and related products with a clear and simple set of criteria to assess and continuously improve the quality of their work.
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