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• Hull FC provide many different sport-centred educational options for young people from primary school age to 25, including work-related learning and apprenticeship opportunities.
• Hull FC use the power of sport to engage and inspire people to get back into work, merging sports and educational programmes to help students gain qualifications and s...

• Work experience can benefit young people still undecided on a career path - for many students who are thinking about a future in engineering, a work experience placement at a firm like Point can cement this as their direction
• Students on work experience may be mentored by young apprentices, who are consequently encouraged to talk about their ro...

• Coca Cola Enterprises (CCE) employ over 4,500 workers across Great Britain to produce 80 different types of soft drink. Their education programme is central to their investment in the future.
• CCE's educational programmes benefit employees as well as students, building competencies and supporting professional development plans.
• Employees...

• For Coca Cola Enterprises (CCE), education programmes are a central part of investment in the community, giving young people the opportunity to find out more about business and manufacturing processes.
• CCE focus on two main educational programmes. Education centres combine classroom teaching with traditional factory tours, while the Real Busine...

• As well as building business skills in areas like communication, decision-making, responsibility and self-confidence, it is also vital that young entrepreneurs gain experience working beyond the UK, on a global stage.
• Private sector growth may be the best means of getting the country out of its current economic decline: YE is hoping to help you...

• As well as basic literary and numeracy, the importance of good employability skills cannot be overstated; teamwork, self-management and problem-solving can all be developed through work experience and careers information and guidance
• Businesses are increasingly offering time off for staff to allow them to act as school governors or to give pres...

• Teachers are often quite conservative, and they can beslow in accepting new ideas and new technology.
• Word of mouth can be extremely helpful when you aretrying to get your product accepted by the conservative educationsector.
• Game-like features are not always appropriate foreducational apps.
• If game-ification is done subtly and ...

• Quipper's quiz-making platform allows teachers toproduce revision quizzes, but it can also be a useful learningactivity for students themselves.
• Quizzes produced in one school can then be shared withother Quipper uses elsewhere.
• Quipper's user age range is relatively evenly spread,although slightly more boys than girls use the programme...

• Jane Delfino works across United Learning’s 17 academies to develop enterprise and build links with business.
• The benefits for companies from working with schools can be huge. They can range from the abstract, such as increased employee engagement and satisfaction, to more tangible benefits. For example Jane’s students worked with one Polis...

• As well as attending EBP events and running interview skills sessions in schools, IT@Spectrum also work with a group called For Entrepreneurs Only, showing young people the possibilities entailed by setting up your own business
• Around a third of the company’s staff are now school governors, forming a relationship which is mutually beneficial, a...

Interview sponsored by EBSI.
EBSI experienced advisors provide an individual planning service to develop new ideas and bespoke programmes and activities that will enrich learners’ education in the world of work, as well as offering valuable experiences and beneficial partnerships to businesses and their employees.

• Apprenticeship uptake is currently being bolstered by extensive - £1.5 billion - government financial support and the £1500 Employer Incentive subsidy
• The CBI has also found growing employer commitment for apprenticeships, with 66% of firms in the UK offering them at the present time
• SMEs are often put off apprenticeships by the cost an...

Interview sponsored by EBSI.
EBSI experienced advisors provide an individual planning service to develop new ideas and bespoke programmes and activities that will enrich learners’ education in the world of work, as well as offering valuable experiences and beneficial partnerships to businesses and their employees.

• Malet Lambert School focuses on providing a student-centred business and employability programme with one-to-one teaching. This gives students the opportunity to learn about the world around them, in which business is key.
• The school works with Humber EBP and local businesses to encourage students to build employability skills including teamwor...

Interview sponsored by EBSI.
EBSI experienced advisors provide an individual planning service to develop new ideas and bespoke programmes and activities that will enrich learners’ education in the world of work, as well as offering valuable experiences and beneficial partnerships to businesses and their employees.

Interview sponsored by EBSI.
EBSI experienced advisors provide an individual planning service to develop new ideas and bespoke programmes and activities that will enrich learners’ education in the world of work, as well as offering valuable experiences and beneficial partnerships to businesses and their employees.

Interview sponsored by EBSI.
EBSI experienced advisors provide an individual planning service to develop new ideas and bespoke programmes and activities that will enrich learners’ education in the world of work, as well as offering valuable experiences and beneficial partnerships to businesses and their employees.