Gap years for Generation Z: valuable life experience or a waste of time?
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Free webinar on boosting graduate confidence in the workplace to run today
The webinar will present an opportunity for you to address your own thoughts and challenges around hiring and retaining graduates.
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Rail chiefs to act as new research reveals girls “switch off” from engineering by 14
Network Rail today pledged to change its approach as it seeks to boost the number of women working...
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2,000 starts by young people every week into work experience or sector-based work academies
According to a government statement released today, young people make on average around 2,000...
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Government launches campaign to boost work experience
Over 30 businesses and 12,000 young people have joined the ‘WE can’ campaign to provide opportunities and practical advice on securing work placements, including how to make the most of the experience.
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Work experience should start in primary school, says Mayor of London
A new report from the London Enterprise Panel on careers advice and work experience is being...
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Work experience “lottery” leaves young people stranded
Employers in some parts of the country are almost twice as likely to offer work experience as their counterparts in other areas, according to a report published today.
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Employers not doing enough to offer work experience placements to business school students
Employers are seeking ‘business-ready’ graduates, but are not doing enough to offer extended,...
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Up to 50,000 teenagers studying ‘dead-end’ courses
Tens of thousands of 16 to 18 year olds are taking “dead-end courses” that don’t lead into work or...
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Young people´s employment expectations too high
Almost 60% of employers believe their sector is facing a skills shortage and one third are...
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UK faces a skills shortage as employers look abroad for new recruits
Almost 60% of employers believe their sector is facing a skills shortage and one third are...
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Grayling defends unpaid work experience scheme
News that young people in London on benefits will have to undertake unpaid work experience in...
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Employers help young people break vicious circle of “no experience, no job”
Almost three in ten employers did not recruit a single young person in the last year Leading...
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Step and GTI Media announce new work experience partnership
With work experience and employability high on the agendas of government and universities, we are...
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Employers urged to pay IT work experience students
A new initiative in Scotland has called on businesses to offer paid work experience to computing...
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The CIPD calls for end to row over “unpaid” work experience
The Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) is warning that recent headlines,...
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