A UK scholarship designed to help young people learn a range of environmental skills and explore future career opportunities in the natural world is open for applications. The Field Studies Council is looking for 75 young people aged 16 to...
A teacher who fell in love with outdoor learning while counting barnacles on a school trip has taken on a new role with the UK’s leading environmental education charity. Jo Harris has taken up the post of education manager at...
The UK’s leading environmental education charity is trumpeting the success of its bespoke training programme this Apprenticeship Week. Each year, the Field Studies Council recruits a new cohort of outdoor education apprentices and equips them with the skills and knowledge...
Teachers are being given the chance to get hands-on experience at workplaces across the region as part of a new scheme to boost links between education and the world of work. The Marches Careers Hub’s Teacher Encounters programme gives teachers...
The Field Studies Council and the Royal Society of Biology (RSB) have teamed up to create a new interactive project which will allow nature lovers across the country to chart the arrival of spring. That first snowdrop, a tiny bud...
The UK’s leading environmental education charity is celebrating its 80th anniversary having welcomed more than 3.7 million students through its doors. The Field Studies Council was created in December 1943 to offer meaningful outdoor education experiences for everyone. It has...
Young people from across the UK have been able to bridge the “skills gap” caused by the pandemic, thanks to a scholarship from a leading Shropshire-based environmental education charity. Almost 400 16 to 25-year-olds applied for just 80 available places...
Schoolchildren from two schools in South Wales have helped the UK’s leading environmental education charity celebrate its 80th birthday by planting new trees. Pupils from Mynydd Cynffig Primary School in Bridgend and Bodringallt Primary School in Rhondda also got to...
Businesses were today urged to help develop the skilled workforce of the future – by playing their part as Enterprise Advisers. The Marches Careers Hub says it wants to recruit more advisers from the region’s business community to help inspire...
The wide range of technical and vocational career opportunities available to young people in the Marches area will be in the spotlight at a series of digital careers fairs this month (OCT). Young people in Shropshire, Herefordshire and Telford &...