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What the election result means for CEIAG
Ok, so the election was last week, but are we any clearer where the country will be in a month? 3 months? A year? I’m not certain we do. Looking back at my April 18th blog about what the snap general...
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The CDI Certificate in Careers Leadership -A cost effective way to get a...
I’m aiming to make this post short & snappy – Headteachers are busy people – I want you to understand why the CDI Certificate in Careers Leadership is so important The CDI maintains the list of...
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The Taylor & the CBI/Pearson Report – what do they mean for schools?
As per normal at about this time of year, there are a flurry of reports on how unemployable young people are. The Taylor Report & the CBI/Pearson report being just 2. Each report is making...
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Donald Trump demonstrates why we need career professionals & a professional...
I’ve been in ‘careers’ for about 20 cough cough years. Long enough to remember the ‘bad old days’ before we had employer engagement on the scale we do now. We do seem to have moved from one extreme...
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What makes a difference in Careers – The Research
One of the major hurdles to schools developing effective Careers, Education, Information, Advice and Guidance CEIAG has always been the lack of hard proof of its effectiveness. Also, one of the most...
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Making a case for support for CEIAG, Careers, Aspirations, Future Planning.
As I’ve said before on many occasions, getting support from SLT for Careers Learning is a tough job in the main.A conversation I had last week brought up the question – would schools respond better to...
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For Every School a Careers Leader – Why?
Back in March 2015 I posted a blog called For Every School A Careers Leader – it set out the rationale behind the TeachFirst Careers Leader training programme which was being trialled at the time....
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Four things that Headteachers need to think about before Sept 2018
Anne Milton MP speaking at the Careers England Summit 2017 Yesterday, I listened to Anne Milton MP give a speech at the Careers England Careers Summit. In the speech she set out the direction of the...
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The Baker Clause – Raising awareness of technical education
What is the Baker Clause? The Baker Clause is an amendment to the Technical and Further Education Act which requires schools to proactively provide access to it’s pupils by alternative providers of...
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The new Careers Strategy Dec 2017
Yesterday at the CDI Conference in Birmingham, Anne Milton MP announced the long awaited Careers Strategy to a packed hall of careers advisers, teachers and other interested parties. This post attempts...
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Top 10 Musts from the new Statutory Guidance 2018
Well we waited a long time for this but at last it’s here. The new statutory guidance for schools is published and I’ve spent some time going through it in detail. There’s a lot of good practice...
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Statutory Guidance for careers – Who will be your careers leader. (The shoulds)
In my last post I covered the musts of the statutory guidance. They’re aren’t many of them and to be honest, if you only complied with the musts, then your school will be doing a pretty poor job....
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HE Funding and social mobility – The role of LMI
I’ve been reading huge amounts about Mrs May’s review of HE funding and to be honest, I’m fuming. Putting my political affiliations to one side, I’m trying to look at things objectively. However, I...
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