17 October 2016
17 October 2016
At the beginning of October the Crafts Council and Inspiring the Future held a Meet the Maker event at the Birmingham Science Museum. On Tuesday 4th October over 100 young people from 15 state schools across Birmingham came together with 23 representatives from the craft sector to learn about their career experiences and the route they took […]
Read more11 August 2016
11 August 2016
Redraw the Balance achieves 25 million views.
Read more11 August 2016
11 August 2016
Inspiring the Future During the last four years Inspiring the Future has worked with 5,500 state schools and colleges and more than 10,000 teachers have collectively sent 135,000 invitations to engage with students. Over a million new connections have been made between young people and employee volunteers via Inspiring the Future and its Inspiring Women […]
Read more27 April 2016
27 April 2016
A new guide has been published by Education and Employers, the charity behind the Inspiring the Future programme and its Inspiring Women and Primary Futures campaigns. The guide is designed to help schools and colleges better understand how working with volunteers from the world of work can boost their careers information and advice provision in […]
Read more24 March 2016
24 March 2016
Minister for the Cabinet Office & Paymaster General, Matthew Hancock, has announced that the Government will develop a ground-breaking new national standard set of measures of socio-economic background, which will be used to measure and so manage social mobility in the Civil Service and beyond. The announcement was made at a ‘career speed networking’ event […]
Read more26 February 2016
26 February 2016
Transport Minister Lord Ahmad has today done an Inspiring the Future triple bill. This included a ‘Career Speed Networking’ event at Ursuline High School, a Primary Futures ‘What’s my Line?’ event at Hollymount Primary School and he also visited his old school Rutlish in Merton to talk informally with pupils about jobs and careers. Volunteers […]
Read more20 November 2015
20 November 2015
Lord Nash, Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Schools, visited The Charles Dickens School, Broadstairs in Kent on 19th November with Inspiring the Future, run by national education charity Education & Employers. The purpose was to inspire students to consider careers in the jobs, professions and sectors that they may not be aware of. Inspiring […]
Read more5 November 2015
5 November 2015
Inspiring the Future, the free service for UK state schools run by charity Education & Employers, has reached three major milestones in October 2015. These are: individual volunteers registering to talk about their job with young people has passed 25,000 individual schools with registered teachers has passed 5,000 – including 80% of all secondary schools […]
Read more11 September 2015
11 September 2015
Today the Department of Transport’s hosted a maritime themed careers day with Parliamentary Under Secretary of State, Lord (Tariq) Ahmad of Wimbledon, Department for Transport in partnership with charity Education and Employers who run free programme for schools Inspiring the Future. Coordinating with International Shipping week, the themed day gave students from two Scarborough Primary […]
Read more4 September 2015
4 September 2015
Read our article in Leadership Focus about our Who’s in Health campaign: Leadership Focus article Who’s in Health 2015
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