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New research by the Education and Employers Taskforce shows a significant link between young people’s experience of the world of work whilst at school and the chances of them becoming a NEET (not in education, employment or training) as young adults.
The report ‘It’s Who you Meet: Why Employer contacts at school make a difference to the Employment prospects of Young Adults’ is based, on a survey undertaken pro-bono by YouGov, which asked, young...
That is the conclusion of a new report commissioned by the Association of Chief Executives of Voluntary Organisations (ACEVO), estimates current levels of youth unemployment will cost the public purse at least £4.8bn in 2012 and a potential £28bn by 2022.
The report goes on to note that many young people do not have the hard and soft skills they need to progress in education or work, and that limited access to high-quality work experience...
The Prime Minister announced that from today, businesses and training providers can bid for a share of £6m from the Higher Apprenticeship Fund. This fund is intended to help support the development of thousands of new Higher Apprenticeships in sectors including aerospace, energy and renewable technologies. The Prime Minister also opened the bidding for the new Employer Ownership pilot. The pilot offers all employers in England direct access to up to £250 million of...
It is National Apprenticeship week, this nationwide event will run from 6th to the 10th February and is set to be the biggest to date. There are over 500 events across the country, taking place in schools, colleges and workplaces across England, at which young people and employers can find out more about local opportunities to benefit from an apprenticeship.
Today the Skills Minister John Hayes announced that a number of major high street banks will create new apprenticeship schemes. The announcements were made at a financial services sector roundtable, held at HSBC in Canary Wharf. Announcements made at the roundtable include:
- Barclays will create 1,000 new apprenticeships across England and Wales with a major programme launching in April
- HSBC will create an extra 688 apprentices bringing the total number...
Nearly half of young people are missing out on career opportunities due to a lack of information from schools and universities, despite having the skills employers want, according to a new survey by CompTIA, the non-profit trade association for the information technology (IT) industry.
The survey continues on to show that 41% of students do not feel well-informed about the range of careers open to them. Only 13% feel their education...
Yesterday the government announced that it was reducing the number of GCSE equivalent, qualifications. The announcement follows recommendations made in a report last year by Professor Alison Wolf the Sir Roy Griffiths Professor of Public Sector Management, at Kings College London. In her report Professor Wolf highlighted how the current Performance Table system has created incentives for some schools to put pupils on courses which, might boost their...
The National Audit Office today published a report into Apprenticeships. Their report suggests that the curent funding system organised by the Department for Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) , through the Skills Funding Agency, in general offers a good return for the public money spent. However, the report also sugguested that the Department could improve value for money significantly, as the rates paid to training providers by the Skills Funding Agency on...
The government today announced that it would be providing a £10m boost, to train thousands of new volunteer leaders and increase youth group places. Youth United, a coalition of the major youth volunteering organisations established by the HRH The Prince of Wales and supported by The Prince of Wales’s Charitable Foundation, will recruit and train up 2,700 new adult volunteers to run 400 new youth groups in communities across the country. This will mean over 10,000...
Today UCAS publishes its annual figures on the number of applicants for entry to full-time undergraduate higher education in 2012. These statistics include all applications considered on time for the 15 January equal-consideration deadline. The figures show that there was a total of only 540,073 applicants this year, compared to 583,546 last year, this equates to a fall of 7.4% in all applicants, year on year. There was a slightly larger fall in the number of applicants...