Future Skills – research and responses. There have been a few new studies and reports written recently about careers development, support and access in the UK. I read a few of them over the weekend and will try and make … Continued
Skills and knowledge or skills v knowledge? Our last blog was about the World Economic Forum’s research into the skills needs for the 21st Century and so by definition, what we need our young people to be learning about alongside … Continued
New skills, old skills? New organisations, revisited skills? As you will probably know, we have been working with young people for 12 years – we started off delivering Enterprise programmes (hence the name!) in schools and we’ve developed in a … Continued
I recently saw a tweet referring to an article from FE NEWS about how well schools prepare children for their future as the All Party Parliamentary Group for Education (APPG) published their inquiry-based paper ‘How well do schools prepare children … Continued
Choice. Sometimes we have too much choice – all at our fingertips. It’s all there for us to download, listen to, watch, order, buy, read any time we want. Sometimes though, there’s less choice but the costs are higher if … Continued
Suffer Now, Live Forever As A Champion. The title is part of a quote by Muhammad Ali which I used during some work I recently did in a school who asked to help with revision sessions…and it turned into the … Continued
National Careers Week review. #NCW2017 was an amazing, exhausting, fun, far-reaching, exciting and life-changing experience for everyone involved. There were events held in schools, colleges, universities and businesses to support young people in their career aspirations, pathways and to increase … Continued
Connecting for joy. Last week we were working with our partners the Transformation Trust and Dell at their Head Office in Berkshire. The programme we developed and run on a monthly(ish) basis is called Powering Potential and is all about … Continued
Day 1: Uganda, Uganda, Uganda. 1am, Kirkby Lonsdale surgery. Collected by a small bus, 36 HUGE suitcases stored (only just) in the underside. The drizzle persisted as we did the rounds and collected everyone from their spots along the way. … Continued
