IET: Engineering Work Experience for All

The  Institute for Engineering and Technology (ITE) has launched a campaign entitled ‘Engineering Work Experience for All’  in order to raise awareness of the value of high quality, practical work placements in helping to develop future engineers with the practical skills they need for the workplace. According to the IET 2016 Skills and Demand in Industry report, 62 per cent of engineering employers say graduates don’t have the right skills for today’s workplace, while 68 per

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Skills Scotland Events 2017

The Skills Scotland events are held in three key locations – Aberdeen, Edinburgh and Glasgow  aiming to close the gap between the workplace and the classroom by linking industry with education. Connecting young people with careers, jobs, skills and apprenticeship opportunities, Skills Scotland is aimed at students aged S4 and above. In each region schools, colleges, youth and community groups are invited to attend with free entry for students and teachers

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Developing essential employability skills through outdoor education

Exposing young people to the outdoors and engaging them in activities that challenge and inspire them has long been highlighted as an important component to support the development of skills for learning, life and work.  Resilience , team building, problem-solving as well as acquiring technical skills  all help when it come to preparing for the world of work. This has been highlighted by the recent visit of Jamie Hepburn, Scottish

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IMPACT OF GLASGOW’S PIONEERING MENTORING PROJECT PUBLISHED

For the last few years, Glasgow City Council and MCR Pathways have nurtured and extended a pioneering and highly successful mentoring and talent development programme for disadvantaged and care experienced young people across a number of the city’s secondary schools. More than 600 young people are now supported in their schools by mentors from all walks of life and all ages. Powerful statistics published in the 2017 Impact Report on Thursday

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DYW Interesting Practice- Ellon Academy: ‘Work-related Learning’ offer enhance pupils’ employability skills

In response to the new Work Placements Standard, Ellon Academy has introduce their ‘Work-related Learning’ model  in collaboration with local business and employers offered as an option choice for all pupils in the senior phase.   Leaners are given the opportunity to   participate in  internship-style work placements one day a week from August to Easter and are able to select from a wide range of  sectors including journalism, education, hospitality, performing arts, event management child care. 

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DYW Interesting Practice – Dalgety Bay Primary School: The Career Education Standard at the heart of school planning

Laura Spence  , HT at Dalgety Bay Primary School has adopted a unique approach to ensure that career education is an integral part of the school improvement planning.  Embracing  the Career Education Standard 3-18  all staff have used Learning Resource 1:  Introduction to the Career Education Standard in order to embed the entitlements into the learning and teaching across the school. This approach has become a cluster model and has been recognised

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DYW Interesting Practice – Larbert High School: Developing young peoples’ skills across all aspects of learning

Developing learners’ skills is high on the agenda at Larbert High School.  The leadership team have adopted a systematic approach to enhancing young peoples’ skills for life and work and implemented a holistic ‘Skills Framework’ across all aspects of the curriculum.  The school uses the DYW context to offer learners a wide variety of experience and  pathways in order to ensure all young people are developing the necessary skills and aptitudes for a positive vision about the futures.  Collaboration with both the wider community

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FUTURE AS5ET: Calling all S5 girls who know they can change the world, and just as importantly, those who don’t

FUTURE AS5ET – A one day free conference for S5 schoolgirls, open to all secondary schools in Scotland. 22 September 2017,  Edinburgh International Conference Centre The organisers, financial education charity Didasko and various investment management firms coordinated by Stewart Investors, are especially keen to encourage attendance of schools from outside Edinburgh,.  They are offering generous financial contributions towards travel for schools based outside of Midlothian area, and accommodation for those located

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SLF 2017: DYW seminars

This year’s Scottish Learning Festival continuous to offers a wide variety of DYW related seminars covering key issues such as curriculum pathways for all,  senior phase options, work-based learning in primary school, CLD, school/employer partnerships, etc .  Seminars will have direct inputs from practitioners, showcasing the practical implementation of DYW across all levels. Outline of DYW related seminars: Wednesday, 20 Sept: Title Presenters Room/ Time Keynote: “Everything around you that you call life was

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Edinburgh International Film Festival 2017

The programme for EIFF Youth Hub 2017 is now live! Now in its fourth year, EIFF Youth Hub returns for four days packed with free practical filmmaking workshops, masterclasses and events for 15-25 year-olds. Whether you want to gain insights into animation or screenwriting, learn from experienced filmmakers about acting, cinematography or short filmmaking, or if you just want to network and step into a career in film – Youth Hub has

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