Will the Revised Gatsby Benchmarks Transform Careers Guidance? | FE Soundbite 775
Welcome to FE Soundbite Edition 775: 7th December 2024 | Will the revised Gatsby Benchmarks transform Careers Guidance? This is the weekly e-newsletter and e-journal…
Gatsby Benchmarks
The Eight Gatsby Benchmarks Of Good Career Guidance
- A stable careers programme
- Learning from career and labour market information
- Addressing the needs of each pupil
- Linking curriculum learning to careers
- Encounters with employers and employees
- Experiences of workplaces
- Encounters with further and higher education
- Personal guidance
CDI Welcomes Revisions to the Gatsby Benchmarks
The revised Gatsby Benchmarks were launched mid November, after over a decade of use in secondary schools and colleges across England. As a key element…
PUPILS FOUR TIMES LESS LIKELY TO RECEIVE SUBSTANTIAL GUIDANCE ON APPRENTICESHIPS THAN UNIVERSITY
Careers education remains patchy despite recent improvements. More than a third of (36%) of secondary school pupils don’t feel confident in taking their next steps…
Five steps improve career guidance: An agenda for the Education Select Committee
The Education Select Committee has recently launched a new inquiry into career education, information, advice and guidance. For everyone working in the field this is…
Skills Bill Amendments – the ‘Baker Clause’ is now legally enforceable
Last night (21 Feb) saw a potentially highly significant amendment to the Skills Bill, particularly for careers advice and guidance routes for students. The Baker…
Making sense of technical assessment – Is standardisation the biggest challenge?
Anyone who has wrapped a wet towel round their head to devise a technical assessment will recognise the dilemmas: the rigour of standardised examinations, or…
Great gatsby they’ve done it!
Staff and students at South Devon High School are celebrating as its career guidance programme is awarded top marks (@sdcollege). The school reached the milestone…
The Gatsby Foundation’s response to the Government’s Innovation Strategy
Gatsby welcomes the focus on emerging skills development and the adoption of the skills value chain approach set out today (22 July 2021) in the…
Reforming our post-16 landscape: An important milestone in the reform of technical education in England
This week, the government published the response to its consultation on the review of post-16 qualifications at level 3. This is an important milestone in the…
Government strengthens commitment to the Gatsby Benchmarks for Good Career Guidance
Today’s (15 July 2021) release of updated statutory guidance for schools, further education colleges, and sixth form colleges on the delivery of career guidance brings…