22 March 2019
22 March 2019
For National Apprenticeship Week, the Apprenticeship Support and Knowledge for Schools (ASK) team partnered with AON to hold a CPD, which was open to teachers and career advisers from secondary schools and colleges across London. As a leading global professional services firm and a top 40 apprenticeship employer,* AON was a great company to partner with […]
Read more13 March 2019
13 March 2019
We were delighted to link with British Metropolitan Academy to host an Inspiring the Future event as part of National Apprenticeship week. Supported by Bristol City Council and the Deputy Mayor, Councillor Asher Craig, it was designed to introduce more than 300 students to the opportunities available as an apprentice in the Bristol area and […]
Read more1 March 2019
1 March 2019
The Inspiring Dorset campaign run in partnership with Southern University Network (SUN), Dorset Council and Dorset LEP is an exciting, campaign with big ambitions, to help raise and broaden aspirations for children in Dorset and to excite and motivate young people about the world of work and how what they are learning in school relates […]
Read more31 January 2019
31 January 2019
UK teachers have been leading the way in inspiring young people about their futures. This was demonstrated to a global audience last week. To coincide with the start of the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, an event took place at the local primary school with a range of volunteers from the world of work. […]
Read more28 January 2019
28 January 2019
By Dr Elnaz Kashefpakdel, Jordan Rehill and Dr Deirdre Hughes OBE. Download the report. This paper, commissioned by Teach First, provides evidence on the benefits of career development activities for children in the primary phase, and the range of teacher roles when delivering it. In doing so the research attempts to map what primary schools are […]
Read more13 December 2018
13 December 2018
Following on from the official launch of Inspiring the Future of Theatre last July, the first two of the campaign's regional events have opened children's eyes to the range of jobs in theatre this term.
Read more30 November 2018
30 November 2018
Inspiring the Future is working with the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy to showcase to secondary school pupils the exciting range of career opportunities for women in STEM. At an event today called Growing your Stem, volunteers, who were all senior women in their roles, spoke to young women from schools sourced by Inspiring […]
Read more9 November 2018
9 November 2018
Yesterday, Primary Futures was joined by Aston Martin, Brompton Bicycle and the RAF to celebrate British Engineering by raising the children of Milton Keynes’ aspirations and broadening their horizons. The event with three of the most iconic companies in British engineering showed the children at Broughton Fields Primary School that a future career in engineering […]
Read more26 September 2018
26 September 2018
Technology has revolutionised how we connect, how we buy and sell products, arrange our travel, share ideas and meet new people. So why not use it to revolutionise the how young people and children get insights and inspiration about the world of work and their futures?
Read more11 September 2018
11 September 2018
Citing our research that found young people start to rule jobs in or out when they’re as young as seven, and these choices are especially influenced by gender stereotypes, Lord Watson spoke of the importance of Primary Futures during the debates on the careers education and advice for students last Thursday in the House of Lords.
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