Universities, Adult Education & Careers

Skills Route exists to help young people make informed decisions about what to study after GCSEs so that they can set great foundations for the future. We do this by providing tailored suggestions to each young person for what to study, and where. We base these suggestions on the information that they share with us - for now it’s primarily their academic ability, their interests and their life goals. Anecdotally, we often hear that schools struggle to share and explain all the options to young people. There are a myriad of reasons for this - the incentives that exist to…

This blog was originally written and posted by Nominet Trust, see the original here. As one beneficiary of their Social Tech Seed Fund, we're pleased to repost it here: By: Charlotte.Knight On: 18th May 2016 Last month, we caught up with our October 2015 cohort of Social Tech Seed funded ventures to hear about their experiences, six months into their Nominet Trust funding. From developing life-saving heart rate monitors to gamified learning apps, it’s safe to say this group of social tech ventures are doing some incredibly inspiring work and learning a lot along the way. We thought it would…

Briony Phillips, our Product and Innovation Manager provided some thoughts for the launch of the latest version of the What Works Wellbeing Centre's wellbeing by occupation data. Read the original blog post (with all the images) here. How did you decide what to study in your final years of school? Perhaps you picked the subjects taught by your favourite teachers; maybe you picked the subjects that came most easily to you or you might even have had a clear career or study goal which you were working backwards from. Let’s take this a little further, cast your mind back to…

Today marks a special occasion - we are now officially funded by Nominet Trust! As their website will tell you, the Social Tech Seed Fund run by Nominet Trust “is an open grant-funding programme that offers entrepreneurial organisations early-stage investment to develop innovative projects harnessing the power of the internet and digital technologies to deliver significant social change. The programme supports projects tackling pressing social challenges such as the environment and sustainability, education, employment and healthcare.” This funding will support us to test and refine the current version of Skills Route. And as a result we will be able to…

Our Director Steve was invited to take part in the Cabinet Office Job Hack Day yesterday, to bring his expertise on how data and technology can be used to help reduce long term youth unemployment. The event was attended by 60 volunteers from a range of government departments, charities and data companies. Steve discussed Skills Route with Cabinet Office Minister Matt Hancock who even had time for a quick demonstration! The ideas generated from the day will be presented to ministers on the Earn or Learn Taskforce, and will include Skills Route as an exemplar of what can be achieved.