Tag: experience
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10 March, 2022Nadhim Zahawi – Secretary of State for Education
10/03/2022 Nadhim Zahawi KS 4-5 / S 4-6 The Secretary of State for Education, Nadhim Zahawi, speaks to students at Sheffield Park Academy on the importance of work experience and the options available after leaving education. Nadhim also shares challenges he has overcome and life advice.
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1 September, 2021Bentley and Speakers for Schools successfully launch digital work experience programme
Bentley and Speakers for Schools successfully launch digital work experience programme School to deliver virtual work experience programme The “Insight Day” initiative is supported by volunteers from Bentley’s colleague diversity networks Goal is to provide students from across the country with insights into STEM careers and opportunities within the automotive sector Over 500 places available over the 2021/22 academic year for students across the UK With COVID-19 continuing to limit the opportunity for traditional “hands-on” work experience, Bentley Motors is embracing digital alternatives and is successfully partnering with social mobility charity Speakers for Schools to deliver a range of virtual […]
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6 April, 2021Dstl holds first ever virtual work experience sessions
Dstl holds first ever virtual work experience sessions More than 60 pupils from across the UK have applied to take part in the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory’s very first virtual work experience placements. Source – Gov.uk – 29 March 2021 Students aged 14 to 19 will take part in sessions which will run over three days and will provide an introduction to Dstl and the science inside UK defence and security, including key areas of work in chemistry, space, psychology, cyber and energetics. Dstl is partnering with educational equality charity Speakers for Schools to offer virtual work experiences for […]
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24 February, 2021Jo Cox Foundation: Work experience blog
Source – The Jo Cox Foundation, 9th February 2021 Jessica, aged 18 from City and Islington College, joined The Jo Cox Foundation at the beginning of July in 2020 for a work experience placement with Speakers for Schools and through their S4SNextGen programme. Jessica has written a short account of her experience: I completed a week of virtual work experience at the Jo Cox Foundation at the beginning of July last year. We were just coming out of lockdown – a time where the Foundation’s central message of ‘coming together’ felt even more difficult, and yet even more necessary, than […]
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10 February, 2021A closer look into Experience Nursing
In January 2021, Speakers for Schools and the Perceptions of Nursing team who work with NHS England and NHS Improvement teamed up to show young people what a career in nursing is actually like. Together we have opened the door for over 1,350 young people to find out more about nursing through virtual work experience. Alongside the work experience placements and insight days, we are also hosting inspirational talks from the likes of: Professor Dame Donna Kinnair DBE, Chief Executive and General Secretary of Royal College of Nursing, Patrick Nayarumbu, Director of Strategy, People and Partnerships at Birmingham and Solihull […]
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8 February, 2021National Apprenticeship Week 2021: Speakers for Schools and The London Progression Collaboration
The theme of this year’s National Apprenticeship Week is ‘Build the Future’, a mantra that encourages us to think broadly about how can work with young people at different stages of developing talent and meet the UK’s skills needs. Rightly, focus during this week will be directed at employers who are driving impact through their support of apprentices and their development. However, just as important are those businesses engaging with schools to develop career aspiration from an early stage. We know that there is untapped potential in the apprenticeship system. Recent research by London Councils has shown that only 8% […]
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25 November, 2020Green Skills Week 2021
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 introduce young people to Green Skills as future career options. Many of the points in the Prime Minister’s plan will be achieved by those who are in school today. Young people aged 11+ will be invited to take part in the charity’s Green Skills Week in April 2021 which […]
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19 November, 2020Speakers for Schools launches Green Skills Week to kickstart the Green Industrial Revolution
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 introduce young people to Green Skills as future career options. Many of the points in the Prime Minister’s plan will be achieved by those who are in school today. Young people aged 11+ will be invited to take part in the charity’s Green Skills Week in April 2021 which will introduce them to […]