Powering the Future: Remote Work Experience in Cutting-Edge Science and Engineering

Fly on the Career Ladder: Remote Work Experience in Travel and Tourism

Securing Brighter Futures: Remote Work Experience in the Insurance Industry

Mission Accomplished: Remote Work Experience in Defence and Security

Bringing New Energy to the Energy Industry with Remote Work Experience

From School to Screen: Remote Work Experience in the Film Industry

New Practical Guides for Delivering High-Quality, High-Impact Work Experience for All

Year 9: Your Future Remote Work Experience Project Launch a Huge Success

Working Work Experience

Delivering the Promise: Futures for All new report on how to Make Work Experience Work for Every Young Person

Documentary Maker Louis Theroux Visits Oasis Academy Hadley for Q&A with Students

Skills shortage and lack of experience are putting a brake on economic growth, says social mobility charity, Futures for All

Celebrating 15 years of Speakers for Schools and Announcing Our Next Chapter at Tate Britain

Why virtual work experience is still important in a post-pandemic educational world

Universal Work Experience Gains Public Support In New Report

Year 10 Work Experience… Reimagined

Careers in STEM: Technology, Science and Engineering Pathways

Turn Your Passion for Sport and Travel into a Career

Your Future in Law, Care & Community Starts Here

Discover the World of Environment & Infrastructure Careers

Careers in Business, Finance and Retail: What to Expect and How to Start

Meet our new 2025 Youth Council and discover their aspirations for the year ahead

Your Guide to Creative Arts and Media Careers: Skills, Salaries and Work Experience

What makes high-quality work experience? Introducing the definition and indicators of impactful practice

FE and Skills Inquiry: Our Evidence to the Education Select Committee

Welcome to National Teen Book Club – Hero Read 3

Celebrating World Book Day 2025

Gabby Logan MBE Visits School to Inspire the Next Generation of Young Women

Celebrating National Apprenticeship Week 2025

Five Key Takeaways from our 2023/24 Impact Report: Driving Change for Young People

Welcome to National Teen Book Club – Hero Read 2

Our response to The Sutton Trust's research on the stark inequalities in access to creative industry careers.

Our Submission to the Curriculum and Assessment Review’s Call for Evidence

Our response to The Key Group’s report on young people’s access to work experience

Our response to the Youth Voice Census 2024

Six Key Takeaways from the 2024 Labour Party Conference

The Sutton Trust’s Life Lessons 2024 report - How are young people developing the skills for success

New Partnership Between Speakers for Schools and The Hg Foundation to Boost Diversity in the UK Tech Sector

Reflections on the Social Mobility Commission’s ‘State of the Nation’ Annual Report 2024

Speakers for Schools Response to The King's Speech 17 July 2024

Industry urged to inspire young people into creative career pathways

Speakers for Schools Investigate The Future of Education,

How does work experience work in Northern Ireland?  

Our new partnership with the Sir James Knott Trust  

Developing young people as a whole 

New report outlines double disadvantage barring fair access to top universities

Meet our 2024 Youth Council and hear from them in their own words

Enhancing youth skills for future employment

The Power of Choice

Building Careers into a multi-academy trust Framework

Why it is essential to help students ‘belong’ to their school community

Revolutionising the Labour Market: Unleashing productivity by putting skills first.

The intersection between regional barriers and digital skills divides for young people

Enhancing Careers Education: A Call to Embed Work Experience in Secondary Curriculum

Our top four takeaways from PISA 2022 findings

Working in the life sciences sector, myths vs reality

Celebrating Black History Month with Speakers for Schools

Our Top Takeaways from the Conservative and Labour Party Conferences

Skills shortage increase sends an important message to us all

What role does work experience play in the success of young people?

There are certain things too important not to share

Why work experience matters to young people who are not in education, employment or training (NEET) 

Our response to the APPG report on Youth Affairs

Addressing the skills shortage and preparing young people for their futures

Former Arsenal chairman visits charity chair’s old school

From tick box to ticking all boxes 

75 years on – Join Speakers for Schools in celebrating the legacy of the Windrush generation 

NHS Chief Executive goes back to school to celebrate the NHS’s 75th anniversary  

Our Work Experience for All campaign makes a splash!

Educating parents and carers: the role of parents and carers in career conversations  

Meet the Speaker: Introducing Richard Murrell, Lead Director of BBC News 

Healthcare leaders go back to school

Watch our founder Robert Peston take the floor at the Education Select Committee.

Leicester City’s charity arm partners with Speakers for Schools to introduce young people to future careers

Introducing our latest campaign investigating transformational change on a national level.

Shining a light on work experience and its importance to state educated young people in the UK.

Social mobility charity Speakers for Schools appoints Nick Brook as CEO

World Cup of Careers – LIFE GOALS: Can a career have two halves? Join former Wales player, Liverpool player and current Welsh referee Cheryl Foster to hear about her career.

World Cup of Careers - A WOMAN'S GAME: Want to make football your business? Join entrepreneur and business woman Sandra Garlick MBE to hear about her work with Coventry City Football Club.

World Cup of Careers - A PUNDIT'S LIFE: Got the gift of the gab? Join football journalist for The Times Matt Dickinson to hear about his career as a professional sports pundit.

Latest Green Skills survey reveals that more than half of young people lack guidance on green job options at school

Fumez the Engineer visits Hewens College to inspire and empower the next generation.

How virtual work experience success helped secure apprenticeships in Scotland

Children's Mental Health Week - Naval's Story

Government and private sector can support Levelling-Up through virtual work experience

Why virtual work experience placements really work

CITB Presents 5 Trades in 5 days: Engineering Apprenticeships

CITB Presents 5 Trades in 5 days: Plant Operations Apprenticeships

CITB Presents 5 Trades in 5 days: Brickwork Apprenticeships

We Are People: Unlock your potential in an amazing profession

Tap in to your future apprenticeship with United Utilities

Take the Scottish High Road

How I became a published author

Covid-19 made the world a more inclusive place for people like me

Gyrfa Cymru yn gweithio mewn partneriaeth â Speakers for Schools i gynnig profiad gwaith i bob ysgol wladol yng Nghymru

Careers Wales partners with Speakers for Schools to offer work experience to every state school in Wales

Dr. Nira Chamberlain: Inspiring the next generation of world-class mathematicians

Sixth Form students at St. Aidan's embrace opportunities for virtual work experience

Bentley and Speakers for Schools successfully launch digital work experience programme

Work experience key to post-pandemic recovery

The Social Mobility Commission report: State of the nation 2021

11,000 tech-related work experience places available for UK students

National Teen Book Club launched for 3,500 young people across the UK

1,600 Virtual Work Experience Places Up For Grabs in Cumbria!

Virtual Work Experience Boom

Making the world of work relatable to young people through Virtual Work Experience

From Governor of the Bank of England to net-zero hero: why we should all be backing Mark Carney’s mission to build a sustainable world economy

Investing in the future by teaching young people the importance of green skills

The future is bright now as thousands more are working for the planet

Dstl holds first ever virtual work experience sessions

HarperCollins launches book club with Speakers for Schools

How one virtual insight day can change a young person’s life

Building a future-proof talent pipeline for recruitment

Rob Woodward: ‘We must put our faith in young people’

Businesses partner with Speakers for Schools to introduce young people to careers that will save the planet

West Midlands organisations open their virtual doors to young people in lockdown

Speakers for Schools opens virtual doors to tourism for young people in Blackpool

Proof that a non-conventional career path can really work out: Introducing Ella d'Amato, Chief Commercial Marketing and Partner Officer at Not on the High Street

The King of Content: Introducing Jean-Patrick Cheylan

A Closer Look into UK Careers in Nursing

National Apprenticeship Week 2021: Speakers for Schools and The London Progression Collaboration

Former Education Secretary Justine Greening is working with the University of Northampton to protect opportunities and boost social mobility

Building diversity needs no more than a will and a way

Kainos partners with UK-wide charity to provide virtual work experience in Northern Ireland

A helping hand with work experience placements

Solent LEP launches ‘Get On Track’ programme for 16 to 18-year-olds

Experience Nursing 2021

Quiz the Speaker – Interview Case Study

What does an SFS talk look like?

Ask the Expert – How do expert insights talk work?

Encouraging students to embrace individuality and build confidence

Placement Spotlight – A week working in the wild with the National Trust