News & Blogs

PwC is a key employer delivering encounters in primary schools as part of our Start Small; Dream Big pilot programme. Read about their work with primary schools & their exciting plans for the future.

A blog by Ben Wilson, Director and Founder at GrowthMesh, and an Enterprise Adviser working closely with Maplewell Hall School: a SEND school for 11–19-year-olds based in Leicestershire.

A blog by Hollie Whittles, Enterprise Adviser, Director of Purple Frog Systems & National Policy Champion for Skills and Apprenticeships, Federation of Small Businesses (FSB).

We’re excited to publish some of the detailed thinking behind the insights in our Now & next report in the form of technical notes, showing the methodology and statistical approaches we used.

Two former education secretaries, Baroness Morgan of Cotes and Lord Blunkett, argue for the reinvention of work experience to close the skills gap and the disadvantage gap.

The true impact of work experience is not the number of days spent and tasks completed, but the knowledge, skills, and work-ready behaviours developed. That is how we should define quality. 

Enterprise Coordinator, Jennie Cole, shares some helpful perspectives on encouraging parental participation in careers provision.

We place importance on the increasingly diverse range of data we & others collect to inform our understanding of the careers education system & how best we can drive efficiency, coherence & impact.

Nick is assistant principal at Garth Hill College. His school took part in the Teacher Encounters programme. Read his experience and the impact it had on the teachers, school and students.

Sunny is an Enterprise Adviser with Abbeyfield School in Northamptonshire and Group Commercial Director for Northamptonshire Chamber of Commerce and Milton Keynes Chamber of Commerce.

Dawn is an Enterprise Adviser with Trinity School and Sports College in Durham, a Special Educational Needs (SEN) school for children aged two to nineteen. Her day job is working within HR at Amazon.

Eloise Skinner, author, psychotherapist, and Enterprise Adviser writes about her experience of the role.