As the founding principal of De Montfort University’s new Leicester Castle Business School, Dana Brown is building on the legacy of Jamie Vardy and Richard III to create a brand of business education that is relevant to firms large and small and the communities they are part of. Real Business spoke to her about how football, robots and entrepreneurship are shaping her vision for 21st century learning.
Garth Saloner, Philip H. Knight professor and dean of Stanford Graduate School of Business, talks innovation and entrepreneurship as Stanford prepares bringing back its Ignite programme to London for autumn 2016.
Every week my team and I receive hundreds of letters and CVs from young people wanting to work for Pimlico Plumbers. The number of CVs arriving in our post box is already ramping up as we are in the middle of exam season and students are considering what’s next for their education and careers.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies, University College London, Harvard and Cambridge found that numerous UK graduates earn significantly less than those that don’t opt for higher education, raising questions about the efficiency of university education. Marco Robinson, creator of Wealth Revolution Group, The Rich List and Naked Restaurants, responds to these findings.
While the education gap between men and women may be narrowing, a global study highlighted that these advances are failing to bring equal access to quality jobs and government representation.
Schools, colleges and universities aren’t making enough young people “world-ready”, let alone “work-ready” and by the time they come to employers like me they may be hungry for a job, but they don’t often have the real skills they need to enter the workplace no matter how many bits of paper they bring after passing their exams.
By Phil Hitchox
While many still ponder whether to hire a graduate or implement an apprenticeship scheme, we asked Phil Hitchox, director of commercial and business development at First4Skills, on his thoughts on how the two options compare.
I’ve been called a few things in my time, but, according to last week’s Sun newspaper, the latest is a “rough diamond” – a label I’m quite happy to take in the context of what I’ve achieved in my business career.
Amid an ongoing skills gap, which has caused Britain’s recruiters to compete for talent, the top ten industries with the most demand for graduates – and the most popular degrees – have been revealed.
With an ongoing skills gap, you may think the British workforce would like to learn new things, but 25 per cent of office workers believe it’s increasingly more difficult to learn new software as time passes on.
