Posts tagged with ‘education’

  • Mar062023

    Opinion: Our education system should be less structured

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    I enjoyed my school years and I was a happy student, but I can’t help feeling that I would have benefitted from a more unstructured education system.

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  • Mar012023

    The Patrick Morgan Foundation: What have we learned?

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    On this day in 2020, we got an email from the Charity Commission that the Patrick Morgan Foundation was officially registered charity in England.

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  • Dec022022

    Autumn Statement: what does it mean for the future of further education?

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    Jeremy Hunt’s Autumn Statement, its impact on Further Education, and how the sector has responded.

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  • Apr012022

    Schools White Paper: Opportunity for all will require a long-term commitment

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    Young people from disadvantaged backgrounds have been left behind by social mobility initiatives for a very long time.

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  • Mar012022

    FE News: The future of careers education after the Levelling Up White Paper

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    The UK government’s much-anticipated Levelling Up White Paper was published earlier this month and with it came another discussion about the role of education in the country’s wider economic growth plan.

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  • Sep072021

    FE News: Delivering the right kind of careers education in the interest of better representation

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    Delivering careers education is a balancing act.

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  • Sep032021

    Exploring the data: COVID-19 and educational disparity

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    Differences in state school and independent school pupil attainment were evident pre-COVID-19. However, recent GCSE and A-level results show that the pandemic has only widened these disparities.

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  • Jun302021

    FE News: The hypocrisy of the UK youth labour market

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    Patrick Morgan Founder, James O’Dowd, and one of our Trustees, Louis Peace,  have collaborated on an extensive article that tackles the difficulty young people face as the UK recovers: not only in obtaining certain roles, but also in accruing the experience necessary for those roles.

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  • May142021

    The Kickstart Scheme is Failing

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    Rishi Sunak’s announcement of the Kickstart Scheme in July 2020 filled me with optimism.

    On paper, it was an impressive commitment: a £2bn investment into creating 250,000 jobs for young people in receipt of Universal Credit and at risk of long-term unemployment.

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