Category: Campaigns
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9 April, 2024New report outlines double disadvantage barring fair access to top universities
New report outlines double disadvantage barring fair access to top universities
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15 February, 2023Watch our founder Robert Peston take the floor at the Education Select Committee.
Watch our founder Robert Peston take the floor at the Education Select Committee. Make high quality work experience accessible to all! At the end of last month, Robert Peston was a guest panellist at the sixth session into the inquiry of careers education at the Education Select Committee. Robert highlighted the benefits of virtual and hybrid work experience and made an […]
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5 January, 2023Introducing our latest campaign investigating transformational change on a national level.
What would it take for every young person across the country to access quality work experience? The first phase of our ground breaking Work Experience for All campaign will ensure that policymakers, employers and educators can contribute to an open discussion about the role work experience should play in future careers education. In the next few months, […]
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19 December, 2022Shining a light on work experience and its importance to state educated young people in the UK.
Shining a light on work experience and its importance to state educated young people in the UK. Read on to get exclusive access to our second campaign report On Monday 5th December Speakers for Schools founder Robert Peston spoke to Radio 4’s Today Programme to discuss our Work Experience For All campaign. And Robert is by no means the […]
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10 October, 2022Speakers for Schools Publishes New Research into the Value of Virtual Work Experience
Speakers for Schools publishes new research into the value of virtual work experience Employers, educators, parents, policy makers and other professional bodies have long recognised that work experience has a crucial part to play in helping young people prepare for the world of work. But whilst the benefits of in-person work experience have been extensively […]
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28 September, 2021Amplifying the voices of young people through our research
Making Up for Lost Time: Introducing the Latest Research Report by Speakers for Schools Download the Report (PDF) Download the Report (PDF) The start of a new academic year has traditionally signalled an exciting time of transition as many young people head to new destinations to continue their academic studies or enter the world of work for […]
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10 August, 2021Yougov Speakers for Schools Poll of MPs, business & young people
Leading Youth Charities join forces to solve the biggest post pandemic barriers for young people Speakers for Schools, UK Youth and Young Enterprise come together in a historic partnership to launch, ‘Youth Card’, the social mobility app packed with thousands of career preparing opportunities. This means the Youth Card is packed with thousands of […]
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7 July, 2021National Teen Book Club launched for 3,500 young people across the UK
National Teen Book Club launched for 3,500 young people across the UK View the top Teen Book Club Authors I Visit the official National Teen Book Club page Social mobility charity Speakers for Schools, Book Clubs in Schools and Andersen Press Publishing Group have joined forces to launch a new virtual book club and creative writing […]
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16 March, 2021Virtual Work Experience Goes from Strength to Strength
Virtual Work Experience Goes from Strength to Strength Young people are at the heart of everything we do. We’re delighted to have seen our Virtual Work Experience programme go from strength to strength with Speakers for Schools facilitating over 12,500 placements in the last 12 months. We’ve been absolutely wowed by the amount of positive […]
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25 November, 2020Green Skills Week 2021
Shaping a Sustainable Future: Green Skills Week 2021 Speakers for Schools is teaming up with Britain’s most environmentally focused employers to tackle the unemployment crisis and future-proof the next generation in a post-COVID economy. To coincide with the UK Prime Minister’s announcement for a Green Industrial Revolution, Speakers for Schools is launching a campaign to […]