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Learn all about essential skills and the how our Partnership is leading a movement to prepare young people for success both in school and beyond.

Trips to Employers

Research & Publications

Essential skills and their impact on education outcomes: a quantitative analysis of the British Cohort Study

January 13, 2021

Work Placements: A Springboard into the World of Work?

November 24, 2020

Bringing Learning to Life: The New Normal?

November 10, 2020

Looking back on our impact in 2020

November 5, 2020

Developing the Essential Skills through Kickstart

October 28, 2020

How to run a Challenge Day during a pandemic

October 21, 2020

Build essential skills with the new Primary Careers Resources Platform

October 8, 2020

New partners

External Press

Profile: Tom Ravenscroft

Tom Ravenscroft is perhaps the most quietly passionate proponent of a “skills” curriculum in education today – and if that rings alarm bells, keep reading.

Education must transform to make people ready for AI

We are doubling down on the idea that if we get children to know things and regurgitate them in a certain way in an exam, then we are setting them up...

Education’s missing piece

Tom Ravenscroft, Founder and CEO of Enabling Enterprise, explains how he is trying to reduce the skills gap. There is something fundamental missing in...

School reports miss the talents that matter - just look at Alan Turing

The education system can sometimes struggle to cope with lateral thinkers. Learning has become formulaic – a case of regurgitating knowledge in...

‘The Missing Piece’ book review - Dr. Mary Bousted

Ravenscroft has not only done his research – the sources in his book are wide and varied – but he also wears his learning lightly. The result is a very...

Start-up success: six lessons for aspiring social entrepreneurs

While it may sound poetic, Enabling Enterprise was not born in a flash of inspiration. Rather it emerged from my desperate attempts as a naïve new business studies teacher to engage...

Latest press releases

Check out the most recent events and updates from schools in the Skills Builder Partnership and see how they're developing essential skills through whole-school Challenge Days and inspiring Trips to Employers.

Trips to Employers

Trips help students make the critical link between the skills built in class and the working world. They meet volunteers from a range of organisations and work together to get a flavour of the industry.

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Cherry Orchard Primary School visit Gowling WLG Birmingham

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Windy Arbor Primary School visit Michael Page Birmingham

Presenting

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Hope Community School visit Tideway

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Shaftesbury Park Primary School visit White Stuff

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Firs Primary School visit John Lewis & Partners Birmingham

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Lea Valley Primary School visit Brewin Dolphin London

Challenge Days

Challenge Days provide an exciting and engaging way for students across a class, a year group or even the whole school to work together and use their essential skills.

Start Up Success @ St Marys

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Start-up Success at St Mary's Catholic Primary School

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Start-up Success at Holy Family Catholic School

Presenting skills in action in front of the Skills Builder team

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Brilliant Books at Benthal Primary School

Operation Moonbase

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Operation Moonbase at Oasis Academy John Williams

Teamwork at its very best at Pelham Primary in Merton

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Game On at Pelham Primary School

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Future Transport at St Francis' Catholic Primary School

Explore our other publications

Essential skills and their impact on education outcomes

Impact Report 2020

How do essential skills influence life outcomes? - Evidence Review

Executive Summary - Universal Framework Report

Universal Framework Report

Independent Review

The Missing Piece

Toolkit for Education

Toolkit for Employers

Toolkit for Organisations

Impact Report 2019

Impact Report 2018

Impact Report 2017

Impact Report 2016

Impact Report 2015

Impact Report 2014