founders4schools key scottish launch slides april 17

KEY STAKEHOLDER BRIEFING (SCOTLAND) APRIL 2017

“Tinker Tailor Soldier or Spy”

THERE IS A MAJOR SKILLS GAP

AMONGST UK'S YOUNG PEOPLE

The Problem

100 %

Net New Jobs created in Europe in the past 5 years were from companies less than 5 years old….

THE PACE OF CHANGE IN OUR ECONOMIES IS HIGH AND INCREASING

#scaleup

I would be able to grow my company faster if applicants had the skills needed to meet my customer demand.

82%OF 163 SCALE-UPS AGREE

79%OF 442 CEOs AGREE

82%

“I would be able to grow my company faster if

applicants had the skills needed to meet my customer demand”

THE SKILLS GAP IS SET TO GET LARGER….

#scaleup

Figure 4. The value of Apps in helping learning (students) (Longfield iPad Research, 2012)

Figure 5. The value of Apps in helping teaching (staff) (Longfield iPad research, 2012)

Teacher ProductivityLearner Attainment

“Over the next decade, more than one billion young people will enter the global labour market and only 40% will be in jobs that currently exist.

-The Economist January 2016

UNLEASHING THE POWER OF THE

BUSINESS COMMUNITY INTO THE CLASSROOM

Student Employer Encounters

OUR GOALS➤ improve young people’s ability to make

informed career decisions and improve their optimism about the future;

➤ help young people to increase their attainment and be more likely to enrol in post-secondary education;

➤ increase the employability of young people; and

➤ increase young people’s earnings after they complete their schooling

➤ By getting teachers to 4 student-employer encounters per annum

➤ By getting students 140 hours of work experience

Ramesh Raskar, MIT Media Lab

Successful Entrepreneurs travel to schools to speak with students

Lucinda Bruce Gardyne from Genius Foods

Inspired by her child’s allergy to gluten and her passion for chemistry, Lucinda set about creating a loaf so her eight year old son Robin, who had a wheat allergy, could dip bread soldiers in his boiled eggs at breakfast.

Workfinder.com

“The speakers told us stories about students of our age who had created

businesses and so I thought if they can do it,

I could too.

Maitri Panchal

TIMING OF THE INTERVENTION IS KEY➤ The timing of the intervention that will

provide inspiration along with the soft and hard skills that will help a young person become employable is critical from a financial perspective.

➤ As the figure here highlights, the cost of training a young person increases exponentially with age: at age 14, the cost is less than £ 1, at age 18 it is less than £1000 but at age 25, it jumps to £10,000.

DELIVERING MEANINGFUL ENCOUNTERS

Founders4Schools enables teachers to access local business leaders to schedule the following encounters:➤ Role model events➤ Group or speed mentoring➤ Mock interviews➤ Career Fairs➤ Keynote career speeches➤ Workplace visits➤ Plus much moreTo date, Founders4Schools has facilitated over 155,000 student-employer encounters for 60,000 students with the help of more than 1,000 business leaders who talked to students about jobs they might hold or create in the future.

DELIVERING MEANINGFUL ENCOUNTERS

UCL Academy, North West London

(click on the images to see an example of each series of events)

Case Studies

● Impact:

○ Sharpened students understanding of future careers.

○ Showed intricate links between the Science, Maths, Technology and Engineering areas.

○ Showed students how interesting and fun STEM can be.

https://www.founders4schools.org.uk/teachers/case-studies/ucl-academy/

Bobby Ahmadzadeh, a Teach First ambassador

Brentford School for Girls, West London

I was excited by how well it went and how positive the reactions were. Several experienced members of

staff at our school that often organise public speaking events said they had

never seen an event so amazing!

It was extremely impactful, and the variety and caliber of people took our

breath away.

Bobby Ahmadzadeh, a Teach First ambassador heard about Founders4schools from a colleague and created an event for his economics students. Immediately after the event, the school’s assistant headteacher asked him how this was organised and booked one more event for the beginning of the next academic year, for their Year 10 students. She then repeated this for their next cohort.

Case Studies

GOOD CAREER GUIDANCE IS

CRITICAL IF YOUNG PEOPLE ARE TO

RAISE THEIR ASPIRATIONS AND

CAPITALISE ON THE OPPORTUNITIES AVAILABLE TO

THEM. The Research

THE GATSBY BENCHMARKS

➤ A stable careers programme➤ Learning from career and labour market information➤ Addressing the needs of each pupil➤ Linking curriculum learning to careers➤ Encounters with employers and employees➤ Experiences of workplaces➤ Encounters with further and higher education➤ Personal guidance

UP-SKILL WITH SCALE UPS TO

SOLVE THE SKILLS GAP

Guidance to teachers…..

#scaleup @scaleupinst scaleupinstitute.org.uk

SCALEUPS AT A LOCAL LEVEL : SCOTLAND

Turnover Growth (GBP) vs Growth Rate (%)



Work Experience Placements

82%



Workfinder

Get experience at Britain’s best companies in a few taps.

USING WORKFINDER STUDENTS CAN:

➤ Discover: Browse and discover local fast growing companies - spark your imagination

➤ Filter: Refine searches by your favourite subjects - find companies that excite you

➤ Apply: Apply for roles using template cover letters - it’s quick and easy

➤ Contact: Apply for positions directly and take an active approach

➤ Experience: Gain valuable experience and get ahead of the crowd

Every secondary school and college should have up-to-date,

user-friendly labour market intelligence/information (LMI)

readily accessible.

Every young person could have at least 100 hours experience of the world of work, in some form, by the time they

reach the age of 18

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We know how important closing the attainment gap is to our long-term economic prosperity, so it’s fantastic that apps like Workfinder give businesses a new and innovative way to connect with students all across the UK

Well done for coming up with such a pioneering idea”.

Paul Drechsler, CBI President

Workfinder.com

“Our members regularly tell us that they struggle to find young adults who are properly equipped for the workplace”

“today’s launch of Workfinder marks a huge step forward in tackling this issue. Not only does it provide young people with great opportunities, it does so in the digital space – the natural domain of those who will excel in the high-tech, high-skilled workplaces of the future.”

Mike CherryFederation of Small Businesses



Dashboards for Local Authorities…

#scaleup

THE SCALE-UP REPORT ON UK ECONOMIC GROWTH Sherry Coutu CBE

Workfinder.comWorkfinder.com

Key takeaway Workfinder is closing the skills gap and empowering students, whatever their background

Creating a pipeline of post-brexit talent for our scaleups….

EMPLOYABILITY TRAINING SEMINARS25 APRIL 12:30

23 MAY 12:3027 JUNE 12:300

https://www.founders4schools.org.uk/hunter-foundation

THANK YOU

