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Daily roundup: GCSE results, fines and Neet figures

    News
  • Thursday, August 21, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Figures show fall in English GCSE grades; number of fines issued to parents in Suffolk for allowing their children to miss school rises by 500 per cent; and Department for Education reveals drop in young people not in education, employment or training, all in the news today.

IPPR proposes vocational reforms to reduce Neet level

    News
  • Wednesday, August 13, 2014
    • | CYP Now
The government is being urged to improve vocational education, apprenticeship opportunities and careers guidance in school in a bid to reduce numbers of young people not in education, employment or training (Neet).

Youth employment relies on opportunities, not just skills

    Other
  • Monday, March 31, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Twenty-five years ago, the Confederation of British Industry published a report calling on business to forge better links with secondary education, particularly through helping pupils to understand the world of work. This was, it argued, as much a matter of self-interest as anything else: a "demographic time-bomb" was about to explode as the population of young people leaving school decreased by a third and so only those businesses with good links with schools would retain any chance of selecting the pick of the crop.

Careers advisers 'key to boosting aspirations'

    News
  • Monday, February 10, 2014
    • | CYP Now
Schools and colleges must ensure they have specialist staff including trained careers officers in order to boost the aspirations of disadvantaged young people, a government report has found.

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