Transcript Inspiring the Future - Education and Employers Taskforce
Working together to help young people achieve their potential www.inspiringthefuture.org
Benefits for Young People
The case for employer engagement in education has never been more compelling
• This generation of young people faces an increasingly global economy, a vast and often bewildering range of career choices and increases in higher education costs mean high financial penalties for bad choices • Pupils in state schools want to hear more from employers about jobs and careers but 42% don’t get that chance. It can make a real difference to their perceptions of what jobs are available and inspire them to consider options that they had previously never thought about • The greatest impact can be experienced by those young people whose families have weakest access to relevant sources of career insights (such as the two million children who live in workless households)
Research
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It’s who you meet: why employer contacts at school make a difference to the employment prospects of young adults
employment or training) as young adults - shows a significant link between young people’s experience of the world of work whilst at school and the chances of them becoming NEET (not in education, 26.1% of young people who could recall no contact with employers whilst at school went on to become NEET This reduced significantly to 4.3% for those who had taken part in four or more activities involving employers
National Careers Council – ‘An Aspirational Nation: Creating a culture change in careers provision’
– calls for more careers insights for young people, and highlights how employers could support schools and colleges and give young people insights into the world of work • ‘Employers should encourage their employees to volunteer to go into schools and colleges to give students insights into different careers, enthuse them about the world of work and provide access to active experience of work, in particular to help address mismatches in young people’s career aspirations’.
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What is Inspiring the Future?
Inspiring the Future is a FREE service whereby employees from all sectors and professions from
Apprentices to CEOs pledge one hour a year to volunteer to go into state schools and colleges to talk about their jobs, careers, and the education routes they took
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It is a FREE service endorsed by Government (with cross-party support), the UK’s main teacher and employer representative organisations and many leading employers It makes a difference to young people. Good quality research shows that who you meet as a teenager shapes the success with which young people go into adult life Teachers overwhelmingly want young people to hear more from people in the workplace
• • • We have signed up nearly 15,000 volunteers from 3,500 different organisations and our growth is steadily rising Over 5,500 teachers from more than 3,000 schools and colleges have already signed up, and we will have recently soft launched our Primary Futures campaign to primary schools Over 34,000 messages have been sent from volunteers to teachers with over 28,000 since Sept 13
School Teacher Cumulative Line Graph Volunteer Cumulative Line Graph 5
Benefits for Employers
Free secure service that makes it easy to engage with state schools and colleges by matching employee
volunteers
Communicating with young people offers excellent personal development opportunities for employees An effective means of supporting corporate social responsibility and long-term recruitment objectives A gateway to working with schools and colleges, across a wide range of activities that support learning and progression Free reports for employers through dedicated registration links
"I just thought I would drop you a note about the careers fair today. It was a great event where young people were given the opportunity to explore ALL the different options open to them when they leave school. The young people I met were really engaged and I really enjoyed
assisting them on widening their horizons". Volunteer PwC
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If you already have an employee volunteering scheme
Many larger employers already have well developed employee volunteering programmes and Inspiring the Future is designed to fit in easily with existing schemes. Equally if you are an employer which wants to start a volunteering scheme this is an easy and free way of doing so.
Include Inspiring the Future in your volunteering scheme
• • • • If you employ more than 250 people we can give you a dedicated link to send to your staff From this we can provide you with a simple report on numbers signed up etc. Organisations can choose to ask their staff to volunteer near their work address or particular target areas, or nearer home to volunteer in their communities.
Assistants can sign up on behalf of senior staff using their email address to field requests from schools
Guidance for volunteers and employers’ responsibilities
• • • Online general guidance will be provided by Inspiring the Future, to both volunteers and registered schools and colleges. It is the responsibility of teaching staff to contact volunteers through the site and invite them to take part in activities.
Training, CRB checks or further guidance for certain activities may be required at the discretion of the school/college or broker, and this will be communicated to volunteers. DBS checks are not required for career insight talks as a teacher will always be present We can offer training for staff and advice on how to run an employee volunteering scheme focused on education. Please get in touch if you would like to discuss this further.
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Benefits for Schools and Colleges
Nearly 15,000 diverse volunteers waiting for teachers to invite them to talk to their pupils about their jobs, and the routes they took to get there, or even CV and interview insights at the click of a button •
How does it work
When teaching staff log on to the system, they get a list of all those people registered in their area who can speak to young people about different specialisms and activities, and it’s a simple process to send a message through the system to get in touch
Specialisms Apprenticeships Design and Manufacturing Enterprise/Entrepreneurs Maths – Using it at work Science and Technology Languages – French, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Urdu, Arabic Activities
Career Insights Help with CVs Mock Interviews Numeracy relating to careers (Primary) Reading relating to careers (Primary) Being contacted about becoming a school governor
"The applicants really enjoyed the session and it was great to have help from such an enthusiastic and knowledgeable volunteer. In fact, 2 out of the 6 applicants who attended the session on 17 th January, have since secured an Apprenticeship position which is brilliant".
Northampton College
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Inspiring the Future: Primary Futures
• • Essentially this is a primary school project working under the banner of 'Inspiring the Future' to develop effective, innovative approaches which will allow schools to easily engage volunteers to work in schools with primary aged children and is run in partnership with the NAHT When teaching staff log on to the system, they get a list of all those people registered in their area and it’s a simple process to send a message through the system to get in touch • When volunteers sign up, they are asked if they would mind being approached by local primary schools to talk about their current job and why reading and numeracy in their primary school days were so important in achieving their current status.
9 "We need to give our children and young people a vision of the opportunities available to them, so that they understand the value of learning and in doing so raise aspirations. It is never too soon to start this. We also need better connections between schools and the communities and businesses they work with. Working with charity the Education and Employers Taskforce helps achieve both goals at once. We value working with other organisations on projects that give children the best start in life". Russell Hobby, NAHT General Secretary
Types of Events – Schools/Colleges use ITF for
Careers Networking Careers Fair Talk 10
Signing up is quick and easy
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Signing up is quick and easy
Add different specialisms Tell schools a little bit about your job and qualifications Add different locations where you can volunteer in Select different activities you could help with 13
Example of volunteer profile that a teacher will view
Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Women Campaign
Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Women Campaign
Inspiring the Future is running a campaign called
Inspiring Women
to get more women into schools and colleges, talking to girls to broaden their horizons and raise aspirations. The campaign aims to sign-up 15,000 inspirational women by the end of 2014, and already 7,000 have signed up since October 2013.
Sign up to www.inspiringthefuture.org
and volunteer in your area – where you live or where you work and help us to recruit more women from all sectors at all levels – from Apprentices to CEOs, by asking your colleagues, employees and networks to sign up Follow the Inspiring Women blog www.itfinspiringwomen.wordpress.com
for news, stories and features about the campaign
Inspiring the Future: Designed & Made Week (30
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June – 4
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July)
Designed & Made week focuses on careers in design and manufacturing and we hope that this will encourage far more young people to embrace careers in this sector. Throughout the week people who design and make: from airplanes and ceramics, to mobile apps and websites or whatever requires good design and craftsmanship will be visiting schools and colleges across the country talking to young people.
The campaign links to Miriam González Durántez’s Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Women campaign We want to put the spotlight on women working in design and manufacturing and a number of highly successful women will be visiting schools across the country that week.
Inspiring the Future: Inspiring Languages
Already there are hundreds of volunteers who use languages in their jobs who've offered to go into schools to talk to pupils from lawyers to engineers and psychologists, from a range of organisations.
Languages include French, German, Spanish, Arabic, Italian, Mandarin, Japanese, Urdu, and many more.
Inspiring Languages Week is promoted jointly by charity the Education and Employers Taskforce, the British Council, the British Academy, Speak to the Future, Routes into Languages and many other organisations
Examples of job titles on Inspiring the Future
Adventure Journalist Aerospace Engineer Airline Captain Architect Assistant Private Secretary to the Prime Minister Assistant Private Secretary to Leader of the House of Lords Barrister Bridge Designer Carpenter Chief Executive Economist Consultant Neurosurgeon Editor Consulting Psychiatrist in Addictions Electrical Engineer Demolition Consultant Entrepreneur Dentist Executive Chef Detective Sergeant Executive Creative Director Diplomatic Service Officer Film Publicity Manager Member of Parliament Director of Political & Social Research Freelance Wildlife & Documentary Cameraman Ocean Rower Director of Strategy & Public Relations GP Osteopath Head of Digital Communicati ons Photographer Hydrogeologist Political Correspondent Technical Evangelist Court Clerk Staff Nurse Technologist Customer Advisor Store Trainer Illustrator Principle Design Engineer Travel Writer Firefighter Student Paramedic Investment Banker Manufacturing Manager Materials Engineer Publisher Vice President Intern Technician Apprentice Research Scientist Administration Assistant Junior Software Developer Ticket Clerk Senior Broadcast Journalist Advance Apprentice Nursing Student Trainee Manager Solicitor Apprentice Engineer PA Catering Manager Sound Recordist Apprentice IT Consultant Speech and Language Therapist Cabin Crew Secretary Prison Officer Contractor Systems Engineer
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Example of some of the Employers and Professional bodies signed up 19
Key Contacts For any queries please contact:
Department Name Job Title Inspiring the Future Director Employer Engagement Inspiring Women Campaign Schools Team PR & Communications
Phil Pyatt Oliver Hallam Gabriella Oakley Charlotte Lightman Carol Glover Director – Inspiring the Future Business Development Manager Inspiring Women Engagement Manager Schools Liaison Manager PR & Communications Manager
General Enquiries Email Address
Telephone Number
0203 206 0454 0203 206 0507 07703 734840 0203 206 0510 07939 061 850 0203 206 0510
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