UAE businesses are embracing Corporate Social Responsibility as a profitable way to do business
Corporate Social Responsibility - when businesses adopt practices that have a positive economic, social and environmental impact - is taking off in the UAE. Over…
Four ways that universities can help look after students’ mental health
While the past year has been a struggle for us all, university students have been among those who’ve fared particularly badly. Data from the Office for National…
Closing the learning gap
A year before the pandemic, education researchers found that by the age of 16, disadvantaged children in England were more than 18 months behind their classmates…
Why diversity, equity and inclusion need compassion at their core
Last summer, the shocking deaths of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor prompted waves of protests across the world in solidarity with the Black Lives Matter movement.…
Environmentally-conscious businesses: our young people need you
One in five young people are so worried about climate change, it gives them nightmares, a poll of 2,000 eight to 16-year-olds found last year. The survey, commissioned…
EVERFI Middle East: Teachers look to businesses to fill the education gap created by Covid
In light of the Covid pandemic, ninety-five percent of teachers feel that businesses have a responsibility to support education and fill this gap in learning. This…
EVERFI asks businesses to ‘answer the call’ for a fairer future for young people
The last year has laid bare the scale of inequality in Britain and beyond. That’s why we are now calling on businesses to come together this year to build a…
A view from the frontline: Five things teachers are thinking about after half-term
We have been speaking to teachers nearly every day since the pandemic began, to understand how their needs have changed. Here are five things on teachers’ minds…
Bringing experiential learning alive online
Despite concerns that online events would present numerous challenges, we have harnessed the huge potential to engage with young people online like never before…
Opinion | The sports industry must try harder to reach the younger generation
Now is the time for governing bodies, sponsors and rights holders to think hard about how they reach young people, argues EVERFI EdComs president Nick Fuller in…
Five principles to keep your business’s social purpose goals on track
The pandemic has underlined the need for social purpose. Here’s how to make it part of your short, medium and long-term strategy.
Our young people need a course in compassion now more than ever
It's no surprise that a survey of 11,000 teenagers has found that 38% are more worried about their mental health now than they were before the pandemic.
School Rules: 5 Rules for Successful Education Marketing
At EVERFI EdComs we’ve had over 35 years of combined experience in driving social impact through education marketing.
The impact of the COVID-19 landscape on incoming university students
Young people waiting anxiously for their A-level and BTEC grades to be published later this week will take little comfort in knowing that they are entering the history…
5 features of a successful education programme
Even as lockdown restrictions ease, life is very much not ‘back to normal’. This is indeed true for the world of education.
Keeping young people safe and healthy online - one of the most important things a business can do
Gen Z, those born between 1997 and 2012, are the first to have grown up with the internet and social media from birth.