Taking a gap year – a wise choice or a dangerous move?

Gerard McGuigan As many students across the U.K embark upon their A-level studies (or indeed highers for those in Scotland), […]


A generation of unease

Zero Hour Contract ONS Update – April to June 2015

By Youth Ambassador Jack Welch In new figures published by the Office for National Statistics (ONS), the rate of people […]


“I knew I had it in me, I just needed the qualifications to prove it

Joanne Commons, 24, from Coalville had been out of work for nearly a year after having her son. After applying […]


Autonomy – Liberation for the Young Generation

Zishi Zhang ‘It was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair’ Dickens created the most memorable phenomenon […]


Solutions to a European Crisis

By Jack  After over a year since my exchange trip to Salamanca, where I previously wrote about my experiences for […]


Developing Humans – Human Development: Young voices; New Idea

By Michelle Ezeuko, A review of the United Nations Development Programme Article “Developing Humans – Human Development: Young voices; New […]


Regional Inequality – The End Of An Era?

By Laurence Griffin In times gone past, so it was that the whole sense of community was very different to […]


The changing landscape, a summary of what’s planned for GCSEs from 2015.

An excerpt from Reforming GCSEs: The changing landscape, a summary of what’s planned for GCSEs from 2015. Earlier this year the Department […]


Learning to Work to Deadlines – My Work Experience

Like most workplace environments, having work experience, even if it may be for as little as one week, must be […]


Leading businesses and thousands of young people back Government Work Experience drive

‘WE can’ campaign will be run with the help of young people so they are ‘job-ready’ for 14m jobs of […]


My Results Day 

By Rhiannon Wilson When I took my A Levels and it came round to results time I had already anticipated […]


Being resilient and self-motivated helped me find opportunities

By Youth Ambassador Laurence As a young person who has been brought up in a rural area (Skipton, North Yorkshire), […]