Teaching in the education and training sector – Education and Training Foundation

Rewarding jobs for graduates

  • Passionate about maths or English?
  • Looking for a rewarding career path with great progression and leadership opportunities?
  • Teaching in the education and training sector transforms lives and boosts the economy.

Why teach in the education and training sector?

The education and training sector is big and very diverse. It offers plenty of training opportunities to help you develop, and there are exciting leadership opportunities too. Two million learners – of all ages from 14 upwards – need your skills to help them raise theirs.

How do I become a maths or English teacher in the education and skills sector?

Initial Teacher Training (ITT) courses in maths or English are available, and there’s financial help to support you. Trainees study an eligible ITT course at Level 5 and above, either full or part-time.

Visit FE Advice today to find out more, and bring your passion to work!

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how to: Student Life Skills

The How To Academy has programmed two jam-packed life-skills jamborees to meet the needs of sixth formers and students. Taking place in central London during the summer holidays, each five-day event will provide the essential package for students of all ages preparing for the next stage of their lives. Whether it is leaving school, home, or university, planning for an interview, cooking on a shoe-string or choosing a career, our team of experts will guide you through the process of decision-making, self-presentation, and survival.

This fun and informative festival will give you insider information you can get no where else: how to make your CV stand out from thousands of others, what to wear in an interview, how to craft the perfect application letter, apply for an American university, raise money, save money, enter a room with confidence, and manage your parents.

In a series of wall-to-wall workshops, lectures, and seminars you will be given top-tips on tailoring your skills, expanding your options, and attaining your goals. You will learn the arts of self-assertion and ‘Mindfulness’, and be shown the nuts and bolts of starting your own business and managing your own time. Our speakers will share their own experiences, and give one-to-one advice to meet your specific needs. You will leave, we hope, equipped with tools, and friends, for life.

See http://www.howtoacademy.com/student-life-skills/teenager-life-skills-2241 for details

 

Bright Futures Social Media Webinar

Bright Futures are hosting a live, interactive, online webinar on how to make the most of social media when job hunting and driving your career forward.

The emergence of social media networks is complementing more traditional hiring processes such as paper applications, CVs and face-to-face networking. As a screening tool, these online networks provide a readily accessible platform to research candidates at minimal cost. Potential employers can access detailed information to draw conclusions about an applicant’s fit for job positions.

By registering for this webinar you’ll receive a free eBook on ‘Using LinkedIn for Your Career’!

Date 18th June 2014
Time: 5.30-6.30pm

The event will be delivered by Vishnu Hariharan, CEO & Co-Founder at BlueBook, an education company dedicated to empowering the next generation of business minds through learning and professional development. Before setting up BlueBook, he worked in the City as a financial analyst at NYSE Euronext and Dresdner Kleinwort Bank in London. He graduated from the London School of Economics and I am a CFA charterholder.

Register NOW

Mentoring opportunity with a Lawyer

EXCITING NEWS

Elevation Networks have partnered with international law firm Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co to offer students and graduates interested in pursuing a career in law an exclusive mentoring opportunity with a Lawyer from their Birmingham HQ

This 6 months mentoring programme will:

  1. Give you 6 months access to a professional mentor
  2. Enhance your knowledge
  3. Help you to gain insight into the life of a lawyer working at an international firm
  4. Increase your professional network
  5. Equip you with employability skills
  6. Give you an exclusive invitation to the competitive Wragge Lawrence Graham & Co assessment centre

If you are driven and a highly ambition student or recent graduate from any degree discipline interested in law then this is an opportunity for you. For more info and to apply visit-

http://www.elevationnetworks.org/trailblazers-mentoring-scheme-in-partnership-with-wragge-lawrence-graham-co/

London event for launch of the Teach First Leadership Development Programme 2015

This event will include a performance from young musicians from the National Orchestra and the chance to network with Teach First Ambassadors to find out about their experiences in the classroom. There will be a short presentation on why there is a huge need for passionate and inspiring teachers in the UK, as well as information on how we can help you to launch your career. Finally, we also have an exciting panel of ambassadors and pupils who will be sharing inspirational stories from the classroom.

Date: Tuesday 10 June

Time: 6 – 8.00pm

Venue: Teach First, 4 More London, SE1 2AU

Spaces are limited. Sign up here to reserve your place.

Drinks and nibbles will be provided.

Compass Group Graduate Programme 2014 Twitter Q&A

Bringing the Jobsfair to your web device
Tue 24th June 10am – 2pm

Ask your questions directly to the following using the hashtags:
#EarlyCareers & #CompassGrads

Fiona Ryland – HR Director – @fiona_ryland
Sarah Mashiter – Head of Talent & Leadership Development – @sarah_mashiter
Sandra Warren-Smith – Head of Education – @sandrawarrenyo
Tony Walton – Lead Recruitment Partner – @YnotNotlaw
Gary Nice – Early Careers Manager & Graduate Recruiter – @nicerecruiter
Sam Inns – 2013 Compass Grad – @InnsSam

Applications close for the Grads Programme on the 29th of June so this is your chance to learn about the opportunities on offer at one of the World’s largest organisations before you apply.

Apply here – www.jobsatcompass.co.uk Follow us here – @compassgroupuk

The Empty Quarter: Oman Expedition 2015

Looking to BE bold…

  • With your studies nearly over, do you find yourself thinking about the future?
  • But not sure where to go or what to do?
  • And your only real priority is that adventure is guaranteed?

If the answer to the above is yes then we, the British Exploring Society, as the oldest personal development charity of its type have an incredible opportunity for you…

The Empty Quarter: Oman Expedition 2015

Hidden in the largely unexplored region of the Middle East, Oman is a country of abrupt environmental contrast and, ripe for exploration, the destination of our life-changing winter gap year expedition. Spanning for up to two months, once there you will have the opportunity to:

  • Contribute to our Arabian leopard conservation study
  • Summit impressive sand dunes stretching higher than the Eiffel Tower
  • Snorkel above beautiful reefs and survey all the indigenous marine life
  • Experience the fascinating local culture and its communities
  • Climb the unexplored sides of the majestic Dhofar Mountains
  • Document all your feats through professionally guided photography, film and writing.

Tempted? Undoubtedly, and with a £500 bursary guaranteed to applicants quoting ‘Oman Email’ …APPLY NOW!

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King’s College London offers new PG scholarships

King’s College London has recently launched a new scholarship scheme intended to widen access to postgraduate study for academically excellent applicants from less privileged backgrounds.

Over 30 scholarships are available for postgraduate study in subject areas like psychiatry, arts and cultural management, informatics, telecommunications, and research in nursing and midwifery. A full list of the eligible programmes can be found on the website.

Applications for the scholarship are now open and will close 14 July 2014, 17:00 BST.

For more information on how to apply and eligibility, including financial need, please visit the King’s Access to the Professions Scholarship Scheme webpage.

Autocar-Courland Next Generation Award

The Autocar-Courland Next Generation Award is a national competition to identify, next_generationsupport and develop top automotive talent of the future. 2013 winner Jake Larsson recently headed up the M1 to Peugeot UK’s headquarters in Coventry for the second stint of his five-month paid internship prize. He was soon heading back south again: across the Channel in fact, to Velizy and PSA’s R&D department, home of the company’s remarkable CAVE (Cave Automatic Virtual Environment) facility, where science fiction is science fact. “It was amazing,” he said. “The innovation was mind-blowing. The engineers there are living five to ten years into the future.”

Entrants from UK universities are invited to answer the brief below as set by Autocar’s editor-­in-­chief Steve Cropley. This year’s winner will receive £7,500 and one month’s work experience at each of the leading automotive organisations supporting the award: McLaren Automotive, Jaguar Land Rover, Peugeot, Skoda and Toyota.

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