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The latest from the Partnership

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

New partner: PAGS

February 11, 2020

Skills development: a pillar of Education 4.0

January 22, 2020

New partner: Morrisby

January 15, 2020

The Fair Education Alliance backs the Skills Builder Framework

December 20, 2019

Celebrating a decade building the essential skills for success

December 3, 2019

What's been going on in October 2019

November 6, 2019

What's been going on in September 2019

October 9, 2019

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

Ss John and Monica Catholic Primary School visit Mercia Asset Management

Focus tightly!

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Watlington Community School visit JLL Norwich

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Gossey Lane Academy visit Birmingham Airport

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Cranford Primary School visit Cisco - Bedfont Lakes

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Cunningham Hill Junior School visit BP Sunbury office

Inventor at work

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Salisbury Primary School and Whitefield Primary School visit London Business School

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.

Work

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

A Day in Politics at Chingford CE Primary School

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Chocolate Challenge at King Edward VI Camp Hill School For Boys

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Creative Spaces at Mill Lodge Primary School

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Level Up at Dollis Primary School

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Creative Spaces at Holly Park Primary School

Y1 and Y2

TRIP TO EMPLOYER

Future Transport at Ferry Lane Primary School

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...

Explore our other publications

The Missing Piece

Impact Report 2018

Toolkit: Primary Schools

Toolkit: Secondary Schools

Toolkit: Colleges

Toolkit: SEN Schools

Toolkit: Teachers

Toolkit: Employers

Toolkit: Organisations

Impact Report 2017

Impact Report 2016

Impact Report 2015

Impact Report 2014