Empower your students to reach their potential

Yes, once you have submitted a request to host a speaker for an in-person talk, we will contact you at a time when a speaker becomes available to propose a date. If we contact you and you are unable to accept the proposed session, we would hugely appreciate your timely response to either accept or decline the invitation so that we can extend the same opportunity to another school, college, or ITP. If you decline an invitation, we will continue to keep your request open and get in touch again in the future to propose an alternative speaker engagement. Apply to host speaker by clicking here. All our guest speakers kindly donate their time to support our charity and we serve a large network of schools and colleges that are geographically dispersed across the UK.

When you register your school or college with Speakers for Schools, you will be asked to create an educator account for our online portal. This portal acts as your gateway into our Experience programme – it is the place where you can view opportunity adverts for all our upcoming work experience placements that are open for applications and is where you will be able to review, manage, and approve your students’ applications before they are submitted to the employer for their consideration. Once your school or college has an account, you will have the option to invite colleagues from your school or college to join the account so that they can assist you as necessary. Please note, that you will need an educator account for the Speakers for Schools portal before you can opt to enrol your school or college and its students for the National Teen Book Club (NTBC). Click here to complete the enrolment process for NTBC. Should you wish to register your school or college for our insiprational talks programme, there is a separate registration process, which you can complete by clicking here . Once you have registered your school or college by completing the form, you can request to host an in-person talk at their school/college, register your students to join any of the upcoming broadcasts, and/or access our industry spotlight talks.

Once your school or college has set up a portal account with us, you can invite young people from your school to create their student accounts and start applying for work experience either directly through the portal or via the opportunities page on our website. If you would like to enrol your school or college and its students to join the National Teen Book Club once you have an educator account on the portal, please click here to complete the enrolment process for NTBC.

Speakers for Schools endeavour to be as inclusive as possible when it comes to accommodating young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) or additional support needs (ASN). Virtual work experience removes some of the barriers to participation these young people typically face, but we recognise that sometimes a more tailored approach is needed. Where it is supported by the employer, we will offer hybrid work experience placements that are specially designed to cater for young people with SEND or ASN. These placements tend to comprise shorter sessions delivered across a longer time period and require a much higher level of supervision from the school/college. Generally, they will include classroom activities as well as an in-person element which will require students to visit an employer site. Educators representing SEND schools or colleges who would like to explore this type of opportunity for a group of students should contact us to discuss their requirements further.