Breaking barriers between education and employment
We talked to Alex Beard, Director of Systems Change at Teach for All, about his reflections on the challenges that young people face as they are leaving school and preparing to enter the world of work. How did you get involved in youth issues? After university, I was working as consultant in the UK and started volunteering in a local community initiative in Hackney Wick in London. I found that I actually enjoyed it more than my real job and decided to retrain as a Teacher through the Teach First programme. I taught in Elephant & Castle for two years …
Alumni Role Models Talk to Girls at TumuTumu School about Future Options and Success
TumuTumu public High School for girls is a couple of hours outside Nairobi, in Kenya. Almost 900 students at the school came together on 8 March for an all day careers event to hear from former students of their school about their careers and to discuss future options, life skills and more. The event, led by the alumni and facilitated by Future First Kenya, was the first of the kind at the school. Students heard from and spoke at length with 21 alumni, including a civil engineer, a banker, a photographer and a Human Resources Manager. 95% of the girls who attended …
‘Future First Global’ and ‘I Choose Life – Africa’ Launch New Partnership
80,000 young people in Kenya to access role models and support for school-to-work transition Nairobi, Kenya 18 March 2015 – Future First Global and ‘I Choose Life – Africa’ (ICL) launched an exciting new partnership today which will provide access to role models and support in the transition from school into jobs, for some 80,000 young Kenyans over the next two years. The two-year partnership, launched in Nairobi, will see the expansion of the Future First programme into at least 80 government secondary schools across eight counties – Nairobi, Meru, Laikipia Machakos, Taita Taveta, Uasin Gishu, Turkana and Mombasa – reaching some of the most …
Former students are inspiring and empowering current students to work harder at school in Kenya
Nairobi, Kenya 5 March 2015 – A new report launched today by Future First Global shows the transformative impact alumni are having in the employment potential for secondary school students in Nairobi. The report ‘An Alumni Community for Every School: Learning from Kenya pilot programmes’ examines a two year pilot programme across fifteen schools in Nairobi. The programme has been piloting Future First’s school based alumni model which aims to improve school to work transition by engaging former students as careers advisers, mentors, providers of work placements and as donors. While improvements in access to education has meant young people …
Adolescents twice as likely to be out of school as children of primary school age, say UNESCO and UNICEF
Around 63 million adolescents between the ages of 12 to 15 years old are denied their right to an education, according to a new joint report from the UNESCO Institute for Statistics and UNICEF, Fixing the Broken Promise of Education for All: Findings from the Global Initiative on Out-of-School Children, released today during the Education World Forum. Globally, 1 in 5 adolescents is not in school compared to 1 in 11 primary school-age children. So adolescents are twice as likely to be out of school as their younger counterparts. The report also shows that if current trends continue, 25 million …
Global data set on the school-to-work transition launched today
Future First Global is launching a global data set today on the school-to-work transition. The data set, available online here, looks at the career aspirations, employability and the school-to-work transition for young people around the globe. The data is a result of a global research study carried out by Future First and Ipsos MORI. The research spanned nine countries and included national polling of some 10,000 people as well as interviews and focus groups that sought the views of government officials, school leaders, teachers and young people. View or download the full data set here. …
Hard to write about, easy to believe in: the importance of data in achieving human rights
Emily Laurie, Managing Director of Future First Global, blogs on the importance of data in delivering evidence-based development. I have sat in enough meetings with communications colleagues to know ‘data isn’t sexy’. It just isn’t. Human rights and development is about people which is why story telling is so important but I am not sure my writing skills are up to developing an engaging narrative about data. However, I am sure that as the world celebrates this year’s Human Rights Day, serious progress will only be made over the next 365 days (great ‘every day is human right’s day’ theme this year #rights365) …
Kazakh former students ready to give back to schools, research shows
Press release available in Russian here. Over a third of former students in Kazakhstan would be prepared to support students at their old school, new research and polling has shown. On the United Nations’ (UN) International Human Rights Day, international charity Future First Global, which commissioned the research, is calling on schools and alumni to work together to help young Kazakhs realize their rights to education and to work. Polling by Ipsos MORI of over 1,000 Kazakh adults nationwide revealed that over a third of adults would be willing to give back to their old schools, but on average less than …
Tutkimus osoittaa, että entiset suomalaiset opiskelijat ovat valmiita antamaan tukensa kouluille
Uusi tutkimus ja haastattelu ovat osoittaneet, että yli kolmannes entisistä opiskelijoista Suomessa olisi valmis tukemaan opiskelijoita heidän vanhoissa kouluissaan. Yhdistyneiden Kansakuntien (YK) kansainvälisten ihmisoikeuksien päivänä, kansainvälinen hyväntekeväisyysjärjestö Future First Global, joka tilasi tutkimuksen, vaatii kouluja ja alumneja toimimaan yhdessä auttaakseen nuoria suomalaisia ymmärtämään oikeutensa koulutukseen ja työhön. Ipsoksen valtakunnallisessa yli 1000 suomalaisen aikuisen haastattelussa, kävi ilmi että noin 60 prosentilla aikuisista oli halunnut antaa tukensa vanhalle koululleen, mutta vain yksi prosentti oli sen jo tehnytkin. Suomessa tänään julkaistuissa uusissa tiedoissa Yhdistyneiden Kansakuntien ihmisoikeuksien päivän kunniaksi, Future First Global sanoo, että alumnien yhteisöjen tarjoamat mahdolliset hyödyt kouluille ja opiskelijoille ovat merkittäviä, …
Ex-alunos brasileiros prontos para contribuir de volta às escolas, mostra pesquisa
Dois terços dos ex-alunos no Brasil estaria preparado para dar apoio aos alunos em suas antigas escolas, novas pesquisa e sondagem mostraram. No Dia Internacional dos Direitos Humanos das Nações Unidas (ONU), a caridade internacional Future First Global, a qual encomendou a pesquisa, está convidando escolas e ex-alunos a trabalharem em conjunto para ajudar os jovens brasileiros a se conscientizarem de seus direitos em relação à educação e trabalho. Uma sondagem feita pelo Ipsos MORI com mais de 1.000 adultos brasileiros em todo o país revelou que mais de 60 por cento dos adultos gostariam de contribuir de volta com sua …
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