The Solent Local Enterprise Partnership’s Careers Hub is appealing to businesses and organisations across the region to offer work experience to school staff, including teachers, so that they can develop their knowledge and understanding of different industry sectors and career routes available to their students.
The Solent LEP is working with the Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC) to launch the Teacher Encounters Fund, which explores how to effectively bring greater awareness of career pathways into mainstream education. The Solent LEP’s Careers Hub is calling on organisations in the Solent region to support this innovative collaboration.
Employers are being asked to take part in as small or large a way as possible, with encounters potentially varying from a one-off half-day virtual connection, to hosting a one-day/one-week ‘work experience’.
Brooke Hoskins, LEP director and Skills Lead, said:
“Deepening the relationship between classroom teachers and employers is critical for our region, as helping young people find their best next step from education into employment is a shared mission for teachers and business.
“Teachers can inspire young people about career paths through the relationships they build with their students and the curriculum they teach. Businesses can reach the next generation and help build the talent pipeline they need for success through working with teachers to ensure they are well versed in emerging trends in a fast-changing world.”
Benefits for businesses who take part include increasing their own understanding of the ever-changing educational landscape, linking careers to curriculum, and bringing relevance to their industry. Business will help to influence school staff who, in turn, will better prepare students and enhance their awareness of skills and how these are relevant in business today.
It will also help businesses to recognise some of the barriers to employment that young people often experience and the challenges that schools, special schools and colleges face in making the workplace relevant to their pupils.
If any businesses or organisations in the Solent region would like to know more about the Teacher Engagement programme, contact the Solent LEP Careers Hub team by emailing [email protected] to arrange a phone call.
Quite ironic really. The people in charge of priming our kids ready for a lifetime of work seem to have very little understanding of the world of work according to this. What have they been doing all these years?
which is why, when they do turn up in the workplace – the wokey ways get shaken out of them pretty quickly, when they realise that the private sector is a dog eat dog world, where survival of the fittest matters and most colleagues are more concerned about paying their bills and putting food on the table, rather than identity politics
Get those teachers flipping burgers, mopping floors, working the dodgems, sitting around doing nothing in council offices, sitting around doing nothing in Island Roads vans, sitting at a supermarket till, working like a dog for a pittance in a care home, etc. So many great opportunities for young people on the island. Those teachers will soon stop moaning and asking for pay rises when they see how limited the job options are for people on the island.