Careers2020 - implications for FE and skills practitionersLSIS: Engaging with Employability and Career Development

7th March 2013

Louis Coiffait, Head of Research

@LouisMMCoiffait

The Pearson Think Tank

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The Careers 2020 projectScoping out how young people can best be supported to plan for, and progress into, their futures.

Phase one (published)Mapping existing knowledge and evidence

The first phase of the project, conducted with iCeGs, features an evidence-based review of careers work covering recent history, the current situation, a menu of possible options for schools, and recommendations for how careers work can be strategically integrated across everything schools do, including the curriculum.

Phase one (published)Mapping existing knowledge and evidence

Whole-school strategic priority?Curriculum-led?Supported?Monitored?

Phase two (currently writing up)Comparing recent activity with future plansThe next phase surveyed a nationally representative sample of those involved in school based careers activities

Explore which careers activities recently took place in schools and which they are planning to deliver in the future.

How has provision changed over three time periods?-Previous years-Last academic year (2011/12)-This academic year (2012/13

Which activities are being delivered? (building on the ‘menu’).

What age groups is careers being delivered to?

What partners are schools working with?

Phase two (currently writing up)Comparing recent activity with future plansHoping to publish by May but a few early findings below…

Overall a very mixed picture – a careers postcode lottery?

Non-selective state school respondents relatively negative / hit hard

A few areas where school-based activity has increased…

…but in more cases there is a decline in activity this academic year

Among the hardest-hit activities were; careers-related resources work experience (unsurprisingly given recent policy direction) Face to face careers guidance (lack of funding, support orgs or time)

Scope to do more with younger learners and after GCSEs

Respondents were very confident schools could provide impartial advice

Phase threeNew thinking about the future of careersThe final phase aims to work with different stakeholder groups to co-create innovative new ideas about the long-term future of careers work.

Asking questions such as…

What are the objectives?

How could they be achieved?

What are the different models and actors?

What is the role of technology?

What are the economic and social costs of poor careers services?

What lessons can we learn from other sectors or countries?

Thank you!

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…any questions?