This week is the 11th National Careers Week, which allows us the opportunity to focus on the impact of great careers guidance and support. It’s also National Apprenticeship Week, celebrating apprenticeships and the benefits they present to both individuals and businesses, as well as the UK economy as a whole. CSW Group has championed positive…
The CSW Enterprise team’s Generation STEM programme will be offering employability skills, workshops and week-long work experience placements to Year 10 students (aged 14-15) across the South West region, designed to give them an insight into what employers expect of young people and raise awareness of the fantastic opportunities in science, technology, engineering and maths…
CSW Group’s Big Bang Team are busy creating and planning the Big Bang South West Regional Fair as well as The Big Bang Fair @ Exeter and are very excited to share all the details from both Fairs! The Big Bang South West Regional Fair will take place on Wednesday 27th June at UWE Bristol…
Cornish engineering ambassadors, career professionals and engineers from across Cornwall are this week teaming up with government and hundreds of industry partners to launch the Year of Engineering –a national campaign to inspire the next generation of engineers and widen the pool of young people who join the profession. Throughout 2018, young people and…
Bristol gets ready for a Big Bang as fair returns! The Big Bang South West regional fair will be held on Wednesday 27 June 2018 at the Conference and Exhibition Centre at the University of the West of England (UWE) in Bristol. We’re excited to have featured in the news lately! Click here read the WorkWiltshire article. Click…
The Enterprise Adviser Network provides a structured, supported way to work with schools on a strategic approach to careers and enterprise. The Enterprise Adviser Network links schools with the business community. The aim is to encourage businesses to work together with schools, helping young people to make choices about their future career. CSW Group is…
Do you want to make a difference? We are looking volunteers who can help us engage with young people aged 13 – 19, who need assistance with a range of life skills. Are you adaptable, flexible and most of all a good communicator. Are you able to simply listen? Are you keen to inspire the…
How can STEM Ambassadors support delivery of the Careers Strategy? Following on from the publication of the Careers Strategy: Making the most of everyone’s skills and talents (click here for the full document). CSW Group are pleased to be able to offer free support to meet some of the new STEM requirements set out in…
CSW Group is delivering an exciting pilot and research programme to support the development of STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths) focussed work experience in the South West and beyond. Schools have been signed up over the past 3 months, and will be getting stuck in with the project team in the new year, starting…
Monday saw the publication of the long awaited government Careers Strategy. For those of us in the Industry we had been waiting to see what this might bring in terms of new ways of working, shifts in policy and where Government might choose to invest. So, now that we know, what do we know? From…
The South West’s largest celebration of Science, Technology, Engineering and Maths (STEM) – The Big Bang South West will return on Wednesday 27th June 2018 at the Conference and Exhibition Centre at the University of the West of England in Bristol. Working in partnership with UWE Bristol and the West of England Combined Authority and…
On Tuesday 14th November a team from CSW Group joined over 100 businesses & colleges as well as thousands of students at South Somerset Careers Fair. Fleet Air Arm Museum was the iconic setting for an event that immediately brought science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM) to the forefront of these young visitors’ minds. …
Big Bang @ School events supports schools to deliver an event to excite pupils about STEM subjects and inspire them to consider science or engineering careers. On Friday 6th October, a fresh autumn day, over 600 students from 15 primary and secondary schools from across North Devon attended Big Bang @ Great Torrington School (GTS).…
Our amazing Cornwall staff spent a day recently volunteering with a local environmental charity.
