Ian Ferguson

Education and Employers is an independent UK-based charity launched in 2009 with the vision of providing children and young people with the inspiration, motivation, knowledge, skills and opportunities they need to help them achieve their potential. It aims to achieve this by working with schools, employers, the national bodies that represent them and a wide range of other partners including the government and third sector organisations. It works with academics and researchers from around the world and its own research is regularly cited by government and international organisations like the OECD. The charity runs Inspiring the Future, a free service which uses innovative match-making technology to connect volunteers with state schools and colleges, quickly, simply and at scale. People can volunteer for at least an hour a year in a local primary or secondary school or virtually, to chat informally about their job and career route. Education and Employers also runs Inspiring Governance, the free governor recruitment and support service. This Department for Education funded service aims to get highly skilled volunteers to serve as governors in some of the most disadvantaged schools in England and in so doing help raise educational achievement.