Anna Ambrose
@annaambrose.bsky.social
Small charity leader, gardener, swimmer, midlander, cycling spectator, school governor, mum. Professionally interested in education, skills and improving access to good work.
Yes yes, long time since I last posted anything here...
But I'm really excited to share a podcast I recorded last week!
Take a listen to us discussing apprenticeships, young people and SMEs - including references to very 'overlappy' venn diagrams and plugging holes in leaky buckets...
But I'm really excited to share a podcast I recorded last week!
Take a listen to us discussing apprenticeships, young people and SMEs - including references to very 'overlappy' venn diagrams and plugging holes in leaky buckets...
🚨NEW PODCAST🚨
How do you get more young apprentices into small businesses?
@annaambrose.bsky.social and Katy Dorman joined me to discuss two new reports from @edgeuk.bsky.social that set out the barriers facing young people and employers in the apprenticeship system.
Listen here: insideyoured.com
How do you get more young apprentices into small businesses?
@annaambrose.bsky.social and Katy Dorman joined me to discuss two new reports from @edgeuk.bsky.social that set out the barriers facing young people and employers in the apprenticeship system.
Listen here: insideyoured.com
October 14, 2025 at 9:15 AM
Yes yes, long time since I last posted anything here...
But I'm really excited to share a podcast I recorded last week!
Take a listen to us discussing apprenticeships, young people and SMEs - including references to very 'overlappy' venn diagrams and plugging holes in leaky buckets...
But I'm really excited to share a podcast I recorded last week!
Take a listen to us discussing apprenticeships, young people and SMEs - including references to very 'overlappy' venn diagrams and plugging holes in leaky buckets...
Really @cyclingweekly.com, you're happy to publish a letter suggesting that women are less able to cope with a bit of swearing on telly than men??? Enough of the outdated misogynistic nonsense please! Really what I want to say is WTAF, but here's the more thoughtful version:
May 3, 2025 at 7:45 AM
Really @cyclingweekly.com, you're happy to publish a letter suggesting that women are less able to cope with a bit of swearing on telly than men??? Enough of the outdated misogynistic nonsense please! Really what I want to say is WTAF, but here's the more thoughtful version:
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Please tell anyone who might want a late Mum/Mam/Mom on the list - it closes on Saturday night...
Mothering Sunday next week. I'll be reading out the names of our #RememberedMums in church on the morning of Sunday March 30th. If you'd like to add your late mother's name, let me know. It can be oddly comforting to know her name will be typed out and said aloud once again. Reposts welcome. ❤️ 👑
March 27, 2025 at 3:39 PM
Please tell anyone who might want a late Mum/Mam/Mom on the list - it closes on Saturday night...
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‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’
March 24, 2025 at 9:16 PM
‘Okay which one of you accidentally added Robert Cecil to the chat?’
So. Many. Questions!
Super fascinating data, and always good to be made to look at the world a bit differently...
Super fascinating data, and always good to be made to look at the world a bit differently...
I’m just a girl standing in front of a boy telling him it’s not true he has become more right-wing… it is me who has become more left-wing 🫠
March 24, 2025 at 10:27 PM
So. Many. Questions!
Super fascinating data, and always good to be made to look at the world a bit differently...
Super fascinating data, and always good to be made to look at the world a bit differently...
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Gripping account of lock down from @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social - brings it back so vividly. It is shocking how society has moved on, while the consequences of the pandemic remain so evidently with us www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
Geoff Barton: How the week that ‘changed education forever’ unfolded
Five years ago this week, Covid closed schools across England and Geoff Barton, then ASCL general secretary, was at the heart of the process. He explains how it happened and what it taught us
www.tes.com
March 20, 2025 at 8:22 AM
Gripping account of lock down from @realgeoffbarton.bsky.social - brings it back so vividly. It is shocking how society has moved on, while the consequences of the pandemic remain so evidently with us www.tes.com/magazine/ana...
Me, faced with a call from an unknown number: "urgh, who's calling me, they can talk to voicemail if it's even a real person at all."
Me, calling someone who I really need to speak to: "urgh, why on earth does nobody ever pick up their phone any more?!"
#Irony
Me, calling someone who I really need to speak to: "urgh, why on earth does nobody ever pick up their phone any more?!"
#Irony
March 19, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Me, faced with a call from an unknown number: "urgh, who's calling me, they can talk to voicemail if it's even a real person at all."
Me, calling someone who I really need to speak to: "urgh, why on earth does nobody ever pick up their phone any more?!"
#Irony
Me, calling someone who I really need to speak to: "urgh, why on earth does nobody ever pick up their phone any more?!"
#Irony
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Children cannot learn if they are not in school and are not engaged. Lost learning is impacting a large – and growing – group of children, with those living in poverty being hit the hardest.
📻#ICYMI: @efuapokuamanfo.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 Today 👇
📻#ICYMI: @efuapokuamanfo.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 Today 👇
March 18, 2025 at 11:35 AM
Children cannot learn if they are not in school and are not engaged. Lost learning is impacting a large – and growing – group of children, with those living in poverty being hit the hardest.
📻#ICYMI: @efuapokuamanfo.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 Today 👇
📻#ICYMI: @efuapokuamanfo.bsky.social on BBC Radio 4 Today 👇
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To reduce the #benefits bill, and get more people into work, the Government should make it easier for small employers to create jobs, with 51% of small employers having hired someone with a health condition in the last three years, FSB's @craigbeaumont.bsky.social tells BBC Radio 4 Today 👇
March 18, 2025 at 11:04 AM
To reduce the #benefits bill, and get more people into work, the Government should make it easier for small employers to create jobs, with 51% of small employers having hired someone with a health condition in the last three years, FSB's @craigbeaumont.bsky.social tells BBC Radio 4 Today 👇
This looks like a) fascinating and b) hugely important research, to better understand inequalities in access to entry level professional roles.
How employer recruitment practices drive inequities in access to professional occupations by socio-economic background & ethnicity.
Research published today by @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social
#SocialMobility #DEI #HR
www.linkedin.com/posts/ugcPos...
Research published today by @cepeo-ucl.bsky.social
#SocialMobility #DEI #HR
www.linkedin.com/posts/ugcPos...
Dr Claire Tyler on LinkedIn: Inequalities in Access to Professional Careers
📢 New report out today! 📢
💥 Inequalities in Access to Professional Careers💥
➡️ Access the report here: https://lnkd.in/emTUGM7u
➡️ Access our blog…
www.linkedin.com
March 6, 2025 at 9:10 AM
This looks like a) fascinating and b) hugely important research, to better understand inequalities in access to entry level professional roles.
Last week, @workwhileuk.bsky.social brought together employers and policy makers to discuss how apprenticeships can support the government's opportunity & skills missions.
TL;DR - if the apprenticeship system doesn't work for SME's, it doesn't work full stop.
workwhile.org.uk/news/smes-th...
TL;DR - if the apprenticeship system doesn't work for SME's, it doesn't work full stop.
workwhile.org.uk/news/smes-th...
SMEs: the key to unlocking apprenticeships for growth and opportunity – News – Workwhile
Reflections from a private roundtable event held on Tuesday 25th February, supported by our event partners Multiverse.
workwhile.org.uk
March 5, 2025 at 10:21 AM
Last week, @workwhileuk.bsky.social brought together employers and policy makers to discuss how apprenticeships can support the government's opportunity & skills missions.
TL;DR - if the apprenticeship system doesn't work for SME's, it doesn't work full stop.
workwhile.org.uk/news/smes-th...
TL;DR - if the apprenticeship system doesn't work for SME's, it doesn't work full stop.
workwhile.org.uk/news/smes-th...
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With LFS caveats, seems a clear & worrying upward trend in % of young people not in education, employment or training. Now nearly one million, with rises seeming sharpest among young men. Reiterates importance of incoming Youth Guarantee in England, plus growing apprenticeships & investing in FE.
February 27, 2025 at 9:46 AM
With LFS caveats, seems a clear & worrying upward trend in % of young people not in education, employment or training. Now nearly one million, with rises seeming sharpest among young men. Reiterates importance of incoming Youth Guarantee in England, plus growing apprenticeships & investing in FE.
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If the graph below does not make the government invest more in disadv young people (e.g. apprenticeships, traineeships, subsidised jobs / work experience etc) then I really don't know what will.
And no, wrapping existing programmes under a 'Youth Guarantee' banner with no extra money doesn't count.
And no, wrapping existing programmes under a 'Youth Guarantee' banner with no extra money doesn't count.
With LFS caveats, seems a clear & worrying upward trend in % of young people not in education, employment or training. Now nearly one million, with rises seeming sharpest among young men. Reiterates importance of incoming Youth Guarantee in England, plus growing apprenticeships & investing in FE.
February 27, 2025 at 10:29 AM
If the graph below does not make the government invest more in disadv young people (e.g. apprenticeships, traineeships, subsidised jobs / work experience etc) then I really don't know what will.
And no, wrapping existing programmes under a 'Youth Guarantee' banner with no extra money doesn't count.
And no, wrapping existing programmes under a 'Youth Guarantee' banner with no extra money doesn't count.
Had my first experience of ChatGPT summarising my own work back at me today, which is definitely some sort of salutary lesson in using AI...🤮
February 24, 2025 at 2:34 PM
Had my first experience of ChatGPT summarising my own work back at me today, which is definitely some sort of salutary lesson in using AI...🤮
Happy National Apprenticeship Week to all who celebrate!
First up for me this week, we've convened a some SMEs who @workwhileuk.bsky.social has supported, to meet the chair of DfE's Apprenticeship Ambassador Network.
#NAW25 #NAW2025 #Apprenticeships
First up for me this week, we've convened a some SMEs who @workwhileuk.bsky.social has supported, to meet the chair of DfE's Apprenticeship Ambassador Network.
#NAW25 #NAW2025 #Apprenticeships
February 10, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Happy National Apprenticeship Week to all who celebrate!
First up for me this week, we've convened a some SMEs who @workwhileuk.bsky.social has supported, to meet the chair of DfE's Apprenticeship Ambassador Network.
#NAW25 #NAW2025 #Apprenticeships
First up for me this week, we've convened a some SMEs who @workwhileuk.bsky.social has supported, to meet the chair of DfE's Apprenticeship Ambassador Network.
#NAW25 #NAW2025 #Apprenticeships
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New: DWP research finds that most health & disability benefit claimants are open to receiving contact about offers of support for employment, benefits or disability services, but that ...
www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/61192
www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/61192
February 6, 2025 at 11:29 AM
New: DWP research finds that most health & disability benefit claimants are open to receiving contact about offers of support for employment, benefits or disability services, but that ...
www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/61192
www.rightsnet.org.uk/now/post/61192
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This excellent from @sustrans.bsky.social. An important initiative to bring the voice of children and young people into transport decision making.
Looking forward to seeing this report launched later in February.
Looking forward to seeing this report launched later in February.
Sustrans and Halfords to launch report into children’s walking and cycling
In early 2025 Sustrans will launch the first ever Children’s Walking and Cycling Index, designed to understand the behaviours, barriers and attitudes affecting children’s cycling in the UK.
www.sustrans.org.uk
February 5, 2025 at 9:24 PM
This excellent from @sustrans.bsky.social. An important initiative to bring the voice of children and young people into transport decision making.
Looking forward to seeing this report launched later in February.
Looking forward to seeing this report launched later in February.
Ooh lovely, I thought - there's something about Lichfield in the Guardian.
...
Oh ☹️ - it's the local flytipping incident of horribly epic proportions.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
...
Oh ☹️ - it's the local flytipping incident of horribly epic proportions.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘It’s like solving a murder’: who dumped 30 tonnes of rubbish on Lichfield?
The city is determined to solve the ‘whodumpedit’ mystery after a huge pile of refuse was discarded, blocking the road. But with fly-tipping across the UK on the up, will it be possible to find the cu...
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Ooh lovely, I thought - there's something about Lichfield in the Guardian.
...
Oh ☹️ - it's the local flytipping incident of horribly epic proportions.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
...
Oh ☹️ - it's the local flytipping incident of horribly epic proportions.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
When is connectivity whilst travelling by train going to improve? I have a list of things to get done on my way home. Nope, not happening. 😡
February 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
When is connectivity whilst travelling by train going to improve? I have a list of things to get done on my way home. Nope, not happening. 😡
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It has been a day spent talking about economic growth, so feels apt to finish with a quick look back at the Dasgupta review. This argued:
“Nature needs to enter economic and finance decision-making in the same way buildings, machines, roads and skills do.”
This message doesn’t feel like it landed…
“Nature needs to enter economic and finance decision-making in the same way buildings, machines, roads and skills do.”
This message doesn’t feel like it landed…
Final Report - The Economics of Biodiversity: The Dasgupta Review
Final Report of the Independent Review on the Economics of Biodiversity led by Professor Sir Partha Dasgupta.
www.gov.uk
January 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
It has been a day spent talking about economic growth, so feels apt to finish with a quick look back at the Dasgupta review. This argued:
“Nature needs to enter economic and finance decision-making in the same way buildings, machines, roads and skills do.”
This message doesn’t feel like it landed…
“Nature needs to enter economic and finance decision-making in the same way buildings, machines, roads and skills do.”
This message doesn’t feel like it landed…
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Another Fabian policy adopted ✅
Great to see the Prime Minister talk about building more quality homes around train stations.
This is something @thefabians.bsky.social recommended in our Commission on Poverty and Regional Inequality.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Great to see the Prime Minister talk about building more quality homes around train stations.
This is something @thefabians.bsky.social recommended in our Commission on Poverty and Regional Inequality.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Keir Starmer: We’ll cut the weeds of regulation and let growth bloom
Labour’s policies will unlock investment, slash red tape and usher in a ‘big build’ era, the prime minister writes
www.thetimes.com
January 29, 2025 at 10:37 AM
Another Fabian policy adopted ✅
Great to see the Prime Minister talk about building more quality homes around train stations.
This is something @thefabians.bsky.social recommended in our Commission on Poverty and Regional Inequality.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
Great to see the Prime Minister talk about building more quality homes around train stations.
This is something @thefabians.bsky.social recommended in our Commission on Poverty and Regional Inequality.
www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/...
A lot to mull over from a good day out at @ox.ac.uk's SKOPE tertiary education system workshop.
Key themes and lots of consensus about collaboration (and how to incentivise it) and coherence. Lots of discussion and less clear agreement on structures and levels of devolution.
Key themes and lots of consensus about collaboration (and how to incentivise it) and coherence. Lots of discussion and less clear agreement on structures and levels of devolution.
January 28, 2025 at 6:43 PM
A lot to mull over from a good day out at @ox.ac.uk's SKOPE tertiary education system workshop.
Key themes and lots of consensus about collaboration (and how to incentivise it) and coherence. Lots of discussion and less clear agreement on structures and levels of devolution.
Key themes and lots of consensus about collaboration (and how to incentivise it) and coherence. Lots of discussion and less clear agreement on structures and levels of devolution.
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Backed by a coalition of industry leaders, we are calling upon the UK government to go beyond the legislative proposals in the Employment Rights Bill to create practical partnerships with industry to speed up change. See more here: timewise.co.uk/article/endi...
#EndTwoTierWorkforce #LabourMarket
#EndTwoTierWorkforce #LabourMarket
January 27, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Backed by a coalition of industry leaders, we are calling upon the UK government to go beyond the legislative proposals in the Employment Rights Bill to create practical partnerships with industry to speed up change. See more here: timewise.co.uk/article/endi...
#EndTwoTierWorkforce #LabourMarket
#EndTwoTierWorkforce #LabourMarket
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Last day to take the 2025 Forecasting Contest!
Last day for those who forecast high on Q45 to share and make their prediction come true!
Whether you're a procrastinator or an information-maximiser, today is your day!
www.edrith.co.uk/p/2025-forec...
2025 Forecasting Contest
A prediction contest for 2024, featuring UK politics and economy, global politics and world events and science, the arts and miscellany.
www.edrith.co.uk
January 27, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Last day to take the 2025 Forecasting Contest!
Last day for those who forecast high on Q45 to share and make their prediction come true!
Whether you're a procrastinator or an information-maximiser, today is your day!
www.edrith.co.uk/p/2025-forec...
If anyone's on the lookout for good vegan / dairy free / egg free recipes, I highly recommend this orange & cardamom cake. It's SO intensely orangey, it must be good for you...
Ok, perhaps not, but it made this egg-alllergy sufferer v happy.
#vegan #veganrecipe
www.theguardian.com/food/2024/de...
Ok, perhaps not, but it made this egg-alllergy sufferer v happy.
#vegan #veganrecipe
www.theguardian.com/food/2024/de...
Meera Sodha’s vegan recipe for whole orange and cardamom cake | The new vegan
Claudia Roden’s classic cake adapted and reimagined as an ideal Christmas dessert
www.theguardian.com
January 25, 2025 at 11:01 PM
If anyone's on the lookout for good vegan / dairy free / egg free recipes, I highly recommend this orange & cardamom cake. It's SO intensely orangey, it must be good for you...
Ok, perhaps not, but it made this egg-alllergy sufferer v happy.
#vegan #veganrecipe
www.theguardian.com/food/2024/de...
Ok, perhaps not, but it made this egg-alllergy sufferer v happy.
#vegan #veganrecipe
www.theguardian.com/food/2024/de...