30 March 2018
30 March 2018
As part of the NHS 70th birthday celebrations, NHS England have teamed up with Inspiring the Future to get more NHS staff into schools on a regular basis talking about the breadth of interesting roles available and encouraging school children of all ages to consider a career in the NHS. These volunteer Health Ambassadors will not […]
Read more21 March 2018
21 March 2018
Career Footsteps kicked off February with an exciting event at Hazel Oak School in Solihull. Hazel Oak is an all age special school for children with moderate learning difficulties, many of whom are on the autistic spectrum. The day followed the format of other Career Footsteps events with speed networking followed by a carousel of […]
Read more13 March 2018
13 March 2018
Do you work in a primary school? A new survey, launched in collaboration with the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) and the Tes, asks primary school heads and teachers for their opinions on introducing children to the world of work. Specifically, the survey asks what primary schools are doing to help children’s understanding of […]
Read more12 March 2018
12 March 2018
Read the article in FE News here. Over recent years significant public resource has been devoted to improving young people’s awareness of apprenticeships. Yet while teenage applications have increased, teenage apprenticeship starts have stagnated. Recent government data has shown that fewer than 26% of apprenticeship starts come straight from school or college. If apprenticeships are […]
Read more8 March 2018
8 March 2018
Inspiring the Future’s new campaign NO MORE FEMALE PROFESSIONALS asks whether the language we all use when talking about jobs, contributes to the problem of unconscious gender bias which limits the opportunities that children perceive they have. It states that ‘A Female CEO is a CEO’ and asks society to consider why we unnecessarily add a […]
Read more8 March 2018
8 March 2018
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Read more8 March 2018
8 March 2018
The British Council in China has been working with our #InspiringWomen campaign since 2015 to tackle gender stereotypes in career aspirations and inspire the next generation to expand their horizons, realise their ambitions and fulfil their career potential. To mark International Women’s day 2018, they launched a new version of our #RedrawTheBalance film using Chinese children and […]
Read more8 March 2018
8 March 2018
Eastbrook School Head Teacher, Valerie Dennis talks about the success of the Inspiring apprenticeship event on 8 March 2018. Thank you Valerie for sharing your school’s inspiring event with us. If you would like to organise a similar event for your school sign up at the top of the page to start inviting volunteers, or […]
Read more8 March 2018
8 March 2018
This National Apprenticeship Week and on International Women’s Day, Inspiring the Future ran an Inspiring Apprenticeship event at Eastbrook School in Dagenham. Photos from the event are here. This event come shortly after the launch of a new report by Education and Employers charity which looks at some of the negative perceptions about apprenticeships, including […]
Read more1 March 2018
1 March 2018
Ahead of National Apprenticeship Week and International Women’s Day, Education and Employers, launches a report, Teenage Apprenticeships: Converting awareness to recruitment today. In the context of government policy to have 3 million apprenticeships by 2020, the report investigates why the number of school leavers becoming apprentices has flat-lined. The report, funded by the Commercial Education […]
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