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Tag: Work Experience

Let students experience the workplace early on so they can hone their skills

July 30, 2018

By Charlie Mullins

For all my disappointment in the government when it comes to Brexit, I would like to congratulate Work and Pensions Secretary Esther McVey for highlighting the importance of work experience and job placements to both young people and employers.

Do you really need a degree to start a (successful) business?

March 1, 2018

By Staff writer

What do Richard Branson, Simon Cowell and Anna Wintour have in common” Their wealth, business prowess and entrepreneurial talent comes to mind, but a less known uniting factor is that none of them have a degree.

Power innovation with work experience talent

January 5, 2018

By Staff writer

David Docherty, CEO of the National Centre for Universities and Businesses (NCUB) and Chairman of Placer, explains how work experience can be used to inspire SMEs and help recruit the talent needed to power innovation.

Charlie Mullins: Any initiative encouraging more girls into our sector should be embraced

April 27, 2015

By Charlie Mullins

With a mother and father better placed than most to advise on why and where their children should ultimately find work, movements giving youngsters early exposure to the workplace are to be commended.

Plans to scrap work experience placements are “alarmingly narrow”

January 6, 2012

By Catherine Marchant

Our distinguished Education Secretary, Michael Gove, is about to do something so apparently odd that it makes one gasp just to think of it.

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