Useful websites
Government links
- EHRC
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com - Equalities UNIT
http://www.equalities.gov.uk/ - Department for Education
http://www.education.gov.uk - Health & Safety Executive
www.hse.gov.uk - Direct Gov
http://www.direct.gov.uk/Discrimination
Unions
Teachers/Education
- NAS/UWT
http://www.nasuwt.org.uk/index.htm - NUT
http://www.teachers.org.uk - Trident for Teachers
www.trident-edexcel.co.uk - CASE
www.case.org/
Careers /Guidance
- Connexions
http://www.connexions-direct.com/ - Prospects
www.prospects.ac.uk/
Business-Related
- Business in Schools
http://www.businessinschools.co.uk/ - NHS Careers
www.nhscareers.nhs.uk - Department for Business Innovation & Skills
http://www.bis.gov.uk/
Gender
- WISE
www.wisecampaign.org.uk/ - UKRC
www.theukrc.org/ - WES
www.wes.org.uk/ - YWCA
www.ywca.org.uk - Geri Project
http://www.geriproject.org/ - The Women's Engineering Society
www.wes.org.uk - Women in Technology
www.womenintechnology.co.uk - Women and Manual Trades
www.wamt.org
Disability
- SKILL
www.skill.org.uk/ - RADAR
www.radar.org.uk/ - Shaw Trust
www.shaw-trust.org.uk - Treloar
www.treloar.org.uk - Professor Stephen Hawking
http://www.hawking.org.uk/
Race and Ethnicity
- Windsor Fellowship
www.windsor-fellowship.org/ - Stephen Lawrence Trust
www.stephenlawrence.org.uk/ - Geri Project
http://www.geriproject.org/ - General Teaching Council for Britain
www.gtce.org.uk/network/traveller/traveller_file.pdf
LGBT
- Stonewall
www.stonewall.org.uk/ - Terence Higgins Trust
www.tht.org.uk/ - Press for Change
www.pfc.org.uk - Mermaids
www.mermaidsuk.co.uk - The Gender Trust
www.gendertrust.org.uk
Age
- Brightside Trust
www.thebrightsidetrust.org/ - Sutton Trust
www.suttontrust.com/
Religion and Belief
- Inter Faith Network for the UK
www.interfaith.org.uk
General Inclusion
- Leeds Animation Workshop
www.leedsanimation.org.uk - EHRC: Young People Know Your Rights
http://www.equalityhumanrights.com/your-rights/young-people-know-your-ri... - DCSF Single Equality Scheme
http://www.dcsf.gov.uk/des - Paywizard
http://www.paywizard.co.uk/main/what-she-earns
Family-Related Issues
- Campaign for Learning
http://www.campaign-for-learning.org.uk/cfl/index.asp - Family Learning
http://www.familylearning.org.uk/ - National Children's' Bureau
www.ncb.org.uk/
Sites Specific to STEM Careers
- STEM Subject Choice & Careers
http://www.stemnet.org.uk/home.cfm - Future Morph
http://www.futuremorph.org/ - Scenta
http://www.scenta.co.uk/home.cfm - Institution of Civil Engineers
http://www.ice.org.uk/ - Centre for Science Education
http://www.shu.ac.uk/research/cse/stem-careers.html - Information and educational resources linked to biology careers.
www.societyofbiology.org - Institute of Physics
http://www.iop.org/ - London Engineering Project
www.thelep.org.uk/ - Noisemakers
http://www.noisemakers.org.uk/ - Royal Society of Chemistry
http://www.rsc.org/ - Maths Careers
http://www.mathscareers.org.uk/ - More Maths Grads
www.moremathsgrads.org.uk - Architects for Change
http://www.architecture.com/TheRIBA/AboutUs/InfluencingPolicy/Policy/Equ... - E-skills
www.e-skills.com - Design and technology association
www.data.org.uk
Websites with Role Models
- www.stemnet.org.uk
Click on Teachers to see the range of resources available.
Click on Sub-Regional Contract Holders to find out how to get ambassadors (people who are willing to come and talk to pupils) in your area. - www.noisemakers.org.uk
Click on noisemakers to view the profiles of a variety of younger people involved in STEM careers - www.theukrc.org
Click on Resources then view Personal Stories and Other Case Studies. - http://www.getsetwomen.org/
The GetSET Women database on the UKRC website can be used to search for women who work in STEM careers, scientists, mathematicians, engineers etc. - www.windsor-fellowship.org
Home page and click on REACH National Role Models Programme and Pre 19 Programmes - www.wes.org.uk
Click Taking a Leading Role; view Role Model Study, especially Useful Websites - www.businessinschools.co.uk
General website to help schools engage with business. May have useful links who can supply appropriate role models - www.geriproject.org
Click on Role Models - www.scenta.co.uk
Click Careers, Click Working in STEM. Use Role Model page to search for role models, view also other sections especially Case Studies - www.wisecampaign.org.uk
Click Inspirational Women - www.thelep.org.uk
Click on Teachers and STEM Days if you are in the London area and would like to host a STEM Day - the LEP will organise the role models and activities with you - http://www.britishchambers.org.uk/find-your-local-chambers
Try your local Chamber of Commerce who may be able to put you in touch with appropriate role models - www.jivepartners.org.uk
Click Products and Resources for ideas about how to encourage organisations that might be resistant to change
Websites with Work Experience Guidance
- www.rsc.org/Education/SchoolStudents/careers.asp
Careers pages from the Royal Society of Chemistry, including pages on work experience placements. - www.britishscienceassociation.org/crest
Gives information on the different levels of CREST awards and how they can be achieved. - www.hse.gov.uk/youngpeople/workexperience/index.htm
Specific information related to work experience placements for young people by The Health and Safety Executive - www.nhscareers.nhs.uk/workexperience.shtml
A page on the NHS careers website where the downloadable pdf version of the work experience pack is available - www.direct.gov.uk/en/EducationAndLearning/14To19/Years10And11/DG_10013569
Government website containing useful guidance about work placements and links to other sites. Aimed mainly at young people. - www.iebe.org.uk/index.php/business
The Institute for Business Excellence was launched in June 2009 and brings together individuals and organisations working in the space between education and business. - Employers’ Guide - Home
is a new site to support engagement between employers and education including the provision of work experience placements. - www.trident-edexcel.co.uk/tsec4.asp
The employer pages of the Trident Edexcel website. Other sections are aimed at learners and teachers. - www.trident-edexcel.co.uk/tsec3_guide4p.asp
A guide for parents and carers to help them support young people in work experience placements. - www.warwick.ac.uk/fac/soc/cei
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