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CEO Careers and Enterprise Company - ex-headteacher - co-founder Voice 21. Education, skills, politics … spurs.
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Really pleased to write about emerging findings from our primary careers education pilot. In short, if you inspire children about what's possible early on, you can mitigate stereotypes based on gender and class. www.tes.com/magazine/ana...

What odds can I get for spurs to get relegated and win the europa league? Next season would be interesting at least …

Nightmare. Bin collection day is a Wednesday and our non-recycling is on a two week cycle. Everything is already full. Not sure I am going to make it.

Winter wonderland…. Magical or horrific example of late capitalism ?

I mean Day of the Jackal is epic. A vulnerable yet ruthless assassin. A tech billionaire. A brilliant MI5 agent trying to beat the system. It’s got everything. Total fanboy.

Going to try sharing some research here from @careerent.bsky.social (is this the right place?!) The Future Skills Questionnaire draws on responses from nearly 1/4 million school aged yp (234k) - probably the largest study of its kind. Interesting insights about how ready they feel for work 1/6

For all the tough talk headlines, this Youth Guarantee actually has a strong and welcome emphasis on support. It also finally opens up a proper focus on the employer end. The benefits system is a smaller part of the story than the world of work - and skills - itself. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Well that’s blown up my ‘let’s not put on the heating yet’ strategy.

Brilliant to see.

Is the international weekend something you can block on Bluesky?

Kaos on Netflix. Total genius. Surely. Doing for Greek myths what Baz Luhrmann did for Romeo and Juliet.

Summer reading: The Glutton by A.K Blakemore. Gripping, beautiful, disturbing. Not sure what to make of it!

A load of cows. Unexpectedly terrifying. Probably best to stay in doors from now on…

Thanks @thetimes.com for highlighting our work and the role high quality careers education plays in preventing young people falling out of the system Back our lost children to rebuild Britain www.thetimes.com/article/cbb2...

Good luck for BTec, Alevel,Tlevel results today! If you got what you wanted. Congrats ! If you didn’t speak to your college and school careers teams. There are lots of options out there.