Every student in Victoria, Australia will receive careers guidance from the age of 12 as part of a state government overhaul of careers education. The changes will be rolled out next year after a review commissioned by the Education Department found careers education started too late in government schools, varied in quantity and quality and…
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An urgent message from Education and Employers Research We would like to invite you to share your valuable views on introducing children to the world of work and career provisions in primary. The importance of early intervention in addressing the perceptions’ young people hold about careers and the range of possibilities ahead of them is…
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The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) research looked at total school spending per pupil between 2009/10 and 2017/18 and found there had been an eight per cent cut in real terms. While in 2009 the per-pupil spend was £6,380, by 2017 this had shrunk to £5,870. The research by Luke Sibieta notes that while pupil numbers have…
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Schools in 20 areas of England will have access to funding to train staff to give better careers advice and offer pupils more “encounters” with employers. Overall, 646 secondary schools, 15 sixth forms and 49 further education colleges will be linked to a hub, with each one involving up to 40 different institutions. Claudia Harris, CEO…
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The names of more than 60 FE colleges set to play key roles in new careers hubs, which the education secretary Damian Hinds has said will transform careers education across England, have been unveiled. But question marks have been raised over how viable it will be for the colleges to implement the required changes,…
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Really excited about Skills Northern Ireland 2018. This is our 3rd year and already we have over 6,500 young people already registered to attend. I feel very privileged and proud to be chairing this innovative and highly interactive event. This year we are offering an exciting opportunity to a young person (female and male) to…
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Ethnicity facts and figures Today I met with Zamila Bunglawala, Deputy Director – Strategy and Insight, Race Disparity Unit at the Cabinet Office (in the red jacket above), who presented “the world’s first comprehensive ethnicity facts and figures dataset” at the Education and Employers and The Edge Foundation International Conference, London. She’s a Senior Civil Servant…
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The new Skills Panorama is here! Cedefop is pleased to announce the redesign of the Skills Panorama website. Faster to navigate and easier to use, the new Skills Panorama aspires to broaden its user groups and welcome guidance practitioners. The website has many new features worth exploring such as: Improved search engine, based on the ESCO classification,…
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WORKING IT OUT: CAREER GUIDANCE AND EMPLOYER ENGAGEMENT WORKING IT OUT: CAREER GUIDANCE AND EMPLOYER ENGAGEMENT A new report published by the OECD (2nd July 2018) looks at the features of good career guidance practice, including the need for schools to begin early and the essential role of exposure to the world of work. To access…
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Spotlight on 16-year-olds as NEETs rise and level 2 apprenticeships fall Figures released by the Department for Education (DfE) show that the proportion of 16-year-olds that are NEET has risen (0.7 percentage points to 3.9 per cent) for the first time since the end of 2011. Billy Camden from FE Week states this is “the…
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