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01.07.2021
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BBC Apprentice finalist Adam Corbally – Pledges to Inspire Future Leaders

Adam Corbally – Motivational speaker and BBC Apprentice finalist

Our aim at Changing Education is to #inspirefutureleaders; by giving students a real insight into the various industries and paths they could follow and to open their eyes and imagination to the potential job opportunities which are available.

We plan to showcase some fantastic individuals who have given us true insight into their profession and the journey they have taken to get to where they are today.

In today’s industry insight interview video, hosted by our very own Amos Madra, we hear from the brilliant Adam Corbally: Motivational Speaker and BBC Apprentice finalist.

Adam is an inspirational speaker in business and education and a member of the professional speakers association. Adam started speaking professionally back in 2012 after he reached the final in season 8 of the hit T.V. show “The Apprentice”. Adam’s keynote presentation focuses on his story, how he left home and school at 16 with no qualifications a truly inspiring tale.

Adam believes you should keep putting yourself out there creating as many opportunities as you can and asking for help is very important advice for us all to take on board.

Adam has some fantastic advice and tips to share and a lot of important information to take away.

To find out more about the inspiring Adam Corbally follow the links below:

Please remember to share your thoughts using the #inspirefutureleaders.

 

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Statement on Virtual Work Experience: June 2021.

Since 2008 we have delivered best in class work-related learning experiences and comprehensive careers provision to students. However, moving quickly to a virtual model in March 2020 was no easy task. As the most extensive Education Business Partnership in the U.K, we have an unparalleled commitment to driving standards across the board. We responded swiftly to the ever-changing landscape, and in collaboration with you, our valued partners, we threw our hat in the ring and launched a virtual work experience programme.

Twelve months down the line, we have questioned whether or not Virtual Work Experience exists. Whether national programmes, including ours, should have been better branded as career insight days or employability sessions to help manage clients??? and student expectations. The notion of Virtual Work experience suggests it is a substitute for the real thing, but the real thing can never be replicated.

My fellow company director and co-founder, Stephen Hackney, recently shared his views on this matter in conversation with our designated programme host Amos Madra; you can view the snippet by clicking here.

Like you and many businesses worldwide, COVID-19 has had a significant impact on our operations. Moving quickly to a virtual model during the pandemic threw up many roadblocks for us. We will learn quickly from the errors we have made. We have made plenty. We welcome feedback, and the feedback we have received from all our partners continues to inform our programmes and operations. I wish to share some of the measures we have recently taken below,

We have reinstated our general enquiries telephone number. You will be able to reach us without having to leave a message first or send an email.

We have also invested significantly in the student-facing app and associated software platform, providing you with the tools to access certificates and run reports on programme engagement.

A key ingredient of our programme, to ensure Gatsby compliance, is providing written feedback on all project briefs submitted by your students. We are currently working hard on this with our employers. All project grades, associated employer feedback, programme engagement, including certificates for all students, will be delivered to you before the last day of the summer term.

I again apologise for the delay in delivering feedback to you. Our operations and those of our employers have also been severely hampered by the pandemic.

I hope our valued clients agree that COV-19 has thrown challenges in everyone???s direction. We did not foresee having to move classic work experience online for nearly two years. My team and I cannot wait to return to traditional placements from September 2021, something we have done incredibly well since 2008. Please rest assured that my team remains hard at work liaising with leading employers to build high-quality content for your students. We have invested significantly in our associated programme resources to ensure you are provided with all the answers to run your programme successfully.

As a valued client, you are welcome to reach out to me personally to discuss any aspect of our programmes. Please respond to my email, and a member of my team or I will happily schedule a call with you.

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Matthew Hodgkinson
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CONNECT Newsletter – 18.06.2021

Greetings from the CONNECT Team, we hope you have had a productive week. 

This week is all about: 

New Partnership.

  • Changing Education Group has partnered with Xporter

CONNECT Webinar next week, get your team to sign-up below. 

  • CONNECT Refresher Webinar – Get Placement Ready

Showcase Webinar next week, please sign up below.

  • CONNECT “New Tech Webinar” Gatsby Reporting and Benchmarking.

Education and Training Resources. 

  • Get ready for the new academic year, by watching our training videos. This weeks webinar showcased “New Tech” Labels (Cross Group Reporting) 

Don’t forget to access our WebsiteLinkedin page, and YouTube channel for all the up-to-date content and resources. 

Xporter is delighted to have been chosen to work in partnership with Changing Education to provide evidence-based practice for a range of work experience opportunities, as well as a careers management platform to help students make the leap from the classroom into a career.  

Xporter???s proven integration tools will provide the link between the work placement and careers management platform and third-party software providers of education administration applications (such as parent???s evening booking systems, behaviour and cashless catering solutions) to help improve educational outcomes for pupils. 

As well as automatically synchronising data between a school???s MIS and a wide range of software applications, Groupcall will facilitate synchronisation with local authority systems. 

This new partnership will provide senior educational leaders with a wider choice of educational software to help meet the needs of each school and its pupils. 

Changing Education commented: ???Working in partnership with GroupCall will allow our delivery teams to streamline our operational processes, enabling staff to focus on student-centred progression??? 

???Exporter will enable our educational partners to succinctly access live reporting through secure data sharing functionality.??? 

Read more about Xporter

This is your opportunity to learn more about the Connect Software functionality, including key developments which have been designed to enhance the user journey. Through our market research phase, we have improved user functionality.

Why should I attend?

This education and training session will explore all aspects of the CONNECT Web Platform Functionality including.

  1. Work Placement Management
  2. Career and Work Relating Learning Management
  3. Health & Safety Risk Management
  4. Employer Engagement
  5. Student Assessments
  6. Date Reporting (Gatsby)

and much more!!!

Reserve Your Place

This is your opportunity to learn more about the Connect Software functionality, including key developments which have been designed to enhance the user journey. Through our market research phase, we have improved user functionality.

Why should I attend?

This week we explore CONNECT Gatsby reporting and Benchmarking. This functionality allows you to automatically report internally and externally (COMPASS+) on all Gatsby benchmarks achieved during all Work Placement, Work-Related Learning, and Careers interactions.

Reserve Your Place

Education and Training

This is your opportunity to learn more about the Connect Software functionality, including key developments which have been designed to enhance the user journey. Through our market research phase, we have improved user functionality.

Why should I watch the video?

This week we explore how CONNECT Labelling enables cross-group reporting. These allow you to create multiple labels, in multiple groups and attach them to students to allow quick filtering on any metric you choose to apply.


CONNECT “New Tech” – Labelling (Cross Group Reporting)

Watch more…….

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Xporter Partner Spotlight

Xporter is delighted to have been chosen to work in partnership with Changing Education to provide evidence-based practice for a range of work experience opportunities, as well as a careers management platform to help students make the leap from the classroom into a career.

Xporter’s proven integration tools will provide the link between the work placement and careers management platform and third-party software providers of education administration applications (such as parent’s evening booking systems, behaviour and cashless catering solutions) to help improve educational outcomes for pupils.

As well as automatically synchronising data between a school’s MIS and a wide range of software applications, Groupcall will facilitate synchronisation with local authority systems.

This new partnership will provide senior educational leaders with a wider choice of educational software to help meet the needs of each school and its pupils.

Changing Education commented: “Working in partnership with GroupCall will allow our delivery teams to streamline our operational processes, enabling staff to focus on student-centred progression”

“Exporter will enable our educational partners to succinctly access live reporting through secure data sharing functionality.”

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CONNECT Newsletter – 11.06.2021

Greetings from the CONNECT Team, we hope you have had a productive week. 

This week is all about: 

  • CONNECT Web – New Functionality Development.

Showcase webinars next week, please sign up below.

  • CONNECT “New Tech Webinar” Labelling (Cross Group Reporting).

Education and Training, get your team to sign-up below. 

  • CONNECT Refresher Webinar

Other updates. 

  • Lands End to John o Groats and back again!
  • Get ready for the new academic year, sign-up for our Partner Training Programme

Don’t forget to access our WebsiteLinkedin page, and YouTube channel for all the up-to-date content and resources. 

New CONNECT Functionality

The developers have had another productive week, please find below an overview of the updates to CONNECT. 

  • New! Mass QR Code display loading state.
  • Error fixed on Risk Assessment when placement ended early.
  • DBS added to export. 
  • New permissions added to employer engagement/programme builder.
  • Error fixed on attendance when placement did not start. 
  • Wording changes to multiple areas of the system. 
  • VWEX export added to Mobile App Status export
  • New! Programme Builder – Certification Creation.
  • New! Programme Builder – Completion Management Tool 
  • Programme Builder links updated.

Large Projects? 

  • Labels (Cross department/course tracking and reporting) Webinar 15.06.2021″
  • Gatsby (Compass+) Reporting “Showcase Webinar coming soon!”
  • Bespoke Career/Work-Related Learning Programme Builder (click this link to watch the showcase webinar)
  • This weeks webinar – Email and Document Editor tool (click this link to watch the showcase webinar)
  • Enhanced Risk Management CRM (click this link to watch the showcase webinar)
  • Business Development CRM 

Coming Soon.  (we have lots of new and exciting functionality being released over the next few months, please find a list below of a taster of things to come)

  • Delete/Update option on a careers activity. 
  • Ability to add multiple students to placements.
  • Ability to remember the last hour’s input at placement creation to auto show on next placement creation.
  • Parental Consent Email upon placement creation.

This is your opportunity to learn more about the Connect Software functionality, including key developments which have been designed to enhance the user journey. Through our market research phase, we have improved user functionality.

Why should I attend?

This week we explore how CONNECT Labelling enables cross-group reporting. These allow you to create multiple labels, in multiple groups and attach them to students to allow quick filtering on any metric you choose to apply.

Reserve Your Place

Education and Training

 

Work Placements are back on the agenda and we???re here to take all the weight off your shoulders. We look forward to supporting you to get your work experience programme up and running, provide guidance on Ofsted, Gatsby, and Compass+ integration, risk management, and employer engagement while tracking and reporting on everything you and your students need.
 
Get ready for the new academic year, sign your team up  below for our CONNECT REFRESHER TRAINING WEBINARS

This is your opportunity to learn more about the Connect Software functionality, including key developments which have been designed to enhance the user journey. Through our market research phase, we have improved user functionality.

Why should I attend?

This education and training session will explore all aspects of the CONNECT Web Platform Functionality including.

  1. Work Placement Management
  2. Career and Work Relating Learning Management
  3. Health & Safety Risk Management
  4. Employer Engagement
  5. Student Assessments
  6. Date Reporting (Gatsby)

and much more!!!

Reserve Your Place

Lands End to John o Groats and back again!

Mark Parsons (Assistant Principal – Cheshire College South & West) is cycling the length of the UK from each furthest point, Lands End to John O Groats, but then to turn around and cycle all the way back to Lands End. This is a total distance of 1900 miles, Mark’s aim is to complete this in 18 days the average time for this epic ride is 14 days for one length of the country. This will test Mark physically and mentally at every level each day of my ride, but this does not compare with what individuals who live with Multiple Sclerosis live with every day and the loved ones who support and live through this with them. 

WOW! Statistics
 – Averaging 10 to 12 hours days
 – Averaging 136 miles a day  
 – Averaging 14 – 16 mph  
 – Averaging 654 calories an hour 
 – Averaging 7194 Calories a day 

The Changing Education Group is proud to sponsor this fantastic cause, If you can help please contact Mark directly via his Facebook page here or Just Giving page here

Through supporting Mark you will be making a direct difference for people living with MS daily.

want to read more? click this link

Education and Training

 

Work Placements are back on the agenda and we???re here to take all the weight off your shoulders. We look forward to supporting you to get your work experience programme up and running, provide guidance on Ofsted, Gatsby, and Compass+ integration, risk management, and employer engagement while tracking and reporting on everything you and your students need.

Get ready for the new academic year, sign-up for our Partner Training Programme

Please click this link to get your team signed up.  

Sign the team up

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Steven Mayatt of Pocket Creatives Pledges to Inspire Future Leaders

 

Steven Mayatt??? Pocket Creatives

 

Our aim at Changing Education is to #inspirefutureleaders; by giving students a real insight into the various industries and paths they could follow and open their eyes and imagination to the potential job opportunities which are available.

We plan to use 2021 as an opportunity to showcase some fantastic individuals who have given us a true insight into their profession and the journey they have taken to get to where they are today.

In today???s industry insight interview video, hosted by our very own Amos Madra, we hear from the fantastic Steven Mayatt: Creative Director at Pocket Creatives.

Pocket Creatives is a video production and photography team built on over 16 years of experience in the visual and creative industries. The company is run by co-owners Steven, Haider, and Lauren. Pocket Creatives are made up of a team of 7, which are based in a large studio in Waterloo where they work with a number of household names to produce videos and photography for brands we all love and know.

Steven started Pocket Creatives with Haider and Lauren in 2016 and they have watched their business grow and grow over the last few years. As Creative Director, Steven balances Pocket Creatives business management with more creative responsibilities – overseeing the team and their visual output. His experience across both technical, creative, marketing and business bring a huge amount of flexible knowledge to the Pocket Creatives team.

Steven believes ???you should go and experience the world, experience work and see what you enjoy doing???, which is important for us all to digest.

Steven has some fantastic advice for anyone entering a creative industry, ???First of all get that work experience because this industry is built around being sociable and creating personal connections – it???s about trust???.

Steven has some fantastic pearls of wisdom to share with anyone wanting to enter this industry or follow his path.

Please remember to share your thoughts using the #inspirefutureleaders.

To find out more about Pocket Creatives and more about the inspiring Steven Mayatt follow the links below:

https://www.pocketcreatives.co.uk/

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AYM Media Group Pledges to Inspire Future Leaders

 

AJ Haseley ??? AYM Media Group.

Our aim at Changing Education is to #inspirefutureleaders; by giving students a real insight into the various industries and paths they could follow and open their eyes and imagination to the potential job opportunities which are available.

We plan to use 2021 as an opportunity to showcase some fantastic individuals who have given us a true insight into their profession and the journey they have taken to get to where they are today.

In today???s industry insight interview video, hosted by our very own Amos Madra, we hear from the brilliant AJ Haseley: Founder and MD at AYM Media Group.

AYM Media Group is a talent booking agency that specialises in live events and artist management.
The foundation of their work is in the UK where they have built up a large network of connections ??? they work with established and up-and-coming artists, acts, musicians, vocalists, and producers.

AJ Haseley is??AYM Media Groups founder and MD. He has always been ambitious, and he was the driving force behind the evolution of the company from promoting events in London to becoming a national booking agency. AJ???s focus has always been on staying ahead of the curve. The music and entertainment industries change constantly, yet over the last two decades, AJ and AYM have managed to foresee and take advantage of trends and developments.

AJ believes you should ???take advantage of what comes into your inbox ??? touch base with them and let them know who you are??? and ???stay consistent in what you do??? very important advice for us all to digest.

AJ has a fantastic story to tell and some fantastic advice for anyone entering this industry or starting out in the world of work in general.

Please remember to share your thoughts using the #inspirefutureleaders.

To find out more about AYM Media Group and more about the amazing AJ Haseley follow the links below:

https://aymmediagroup.net/

 

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Robyn Allen Solutions LTD – Pledges to Inspire Future Leaders

 

Robyn Allen- Director of Robyn Allen Solutions LTD

Our aim at Changing Education is to #inspirefutureleaders; by giving students a real insight into the various industries and paths they could follow and to open their eyes and imagination to the potential job opportunities which are available.

We plan to use 2021 as an opportunity to showcase some fantastic individuals who have given us a true insight into their profession and the journey they have taken to get to where they are today.

In today???s industry insight interview video, hosted by our very own Amos Madra, we hear from the inspirational Robyn Allen: Director of Robyn Allen Solutions Ltd.

Robyn Allen Solutions Ltd is a firm that specialises in providing protection advice; tailored to each client. They are a proud member of the Openwork Network, one of the largest and longest established financial advice networks in the UK. They offer a range of products provided by some of the UK???s most well-known financial services brands. They also support the local communities they serve too, that is why they set up The Openwork Foundation – a charity for helping disadvantaged children and young adults across the UK and abroad.

Robyn???s career in financial services began at the age of 17 when she got her first ???grown up??? job with the Halifax. Following in her father???s footsteps she undertook a variety of roles with the business but really found her passion when she began her role as a Financial Consultant; this role focused on helping customers protect their futures. Following redundancy in 2014, she took the brave step of starting her own firm specialising in protection. The rest is history.

Robyn believes that ???if you can learn from the ground up, nothing will surprise you and you???ll never have a knowledge gap??? – wise words and an important message for us all to digest.

Robyn has some fantastic advice and invaluable knowledge to share – very relevant for anyone who???s starting out on their career path.

Please remember to share your thoughts using the #inspirefutureleaders.

To find out more about Robyn Allen Solutions Ltd and more about the brilliant Robyn Allen follow the link below:

https://www.robynallensolutions.com/about-robyn-allen-solutions/

 

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Mark Roberts Photography explains how to pursue a career in the Creative Industries.

 

This Sector Spotlight Session from Changing Education Limited provides an insight into the world of Photography, Videography and becoming a YouTuber. Mark shares his path to success and some useful tips to help #inspirefutureleaders.??

Mark studied Audio and Visual Technology at University but explains the best place to start is by buying a camera, taking pictures and shooting videos. He says ???the number one thing you can do is perfect your craft and become great at what you do, people will see value in that and will want to add value to you???.

His advice to students is:

  • ???To find what you are passionate about, then find people who are doing what you like doing and follow their advice???.
  • ???It is essential to take the time to invest in yourself as it shows other people that you are worth investing in. YouTube is a great resource with free professional courses, videos and valuable information???.
  • ???Don???t get discouraged and don’t give up. It won’t happen in a week and you have to persevere but you will get there in the end???.

 

For more pearls of wisdom, you can watch Mark???s Sector Spotlight Video in full here

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Reflecting on the Past Year
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Tue, January 11, 2022 5:30 PM – 6:30 PM EET
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