Careers Education and Guidance in Schools: changing policy and practice and the place of ICT

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Careers Education and Guidance in Schools
changing policy and practice and the place of ICT

• ICT in CEIAG Conference, York
• Friday 2 March 2012
• David Andrews

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Young peoples progression in learning and work

• Changes in 14-19 learning
• Changes in funding for FE and HE
• Changes to careers guidance services and to
  careers education in schools
• Supporting pupils and students with current
  choices
• Preparing for new arrangements for careers
  education and IAG

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Raising the age of participation in learning

• to age 17 in 2013 (this years Y10)
• to age 18 in 2015 (this years Y9)
• The important role of CEG
• Tracking young peoples transitionsinformation-sh
  aring, voluntary protocols

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KS4 and KS5 Destination MeasuresDfE suggestions,
for 2012 and 2013

• Key Stage 4
• of pupils progressed to a positive destination
  within one year of ending KS4
• sixth form
• FE college
• work-based learning or an apprenticeship
• employment
• Key Stage 5
• of students progressed to a positive
  destination within one year of their 16-18
  learning
• entered higher education at university ( went
  to Oxford or Cambridge)
• continued in further education
• entered employment

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Developments in 14-19 learning

• 14-19 reforms
• Apprenticeships expansionresearching
  opportunities
• Diplomas exam boards withdrawing
• Wolf review of vocational education
• A level (review?)
• GCSE iGCSE and English baccalaureate
• bursary scheme has replaced EMA
• HE
• tuition fees (up to 9,000 p.a., w.e.f. 2012)
• applications beyond the UKresearching
  opportunitieson-line applications

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Students CEG support needs

• Information
• on post-13/14 (KS4) options, post-16 options,
  post-17 and post-18 options
• on progression routes
• comprehensive, up to date, accessible14-19
  prospectus?
• Guidance
• linked to tutoring and mentoring
• effective recording and referral
• impartial
• Careers education
• how to use information and guidance
• career planning, career management and
  employability skillsCommon Application Process?

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The partnership approach

• Schools and colleges
• careers information
• careers education
• initial advice and guidance, and referrals to
  external careers guidance service
• Careers service/Connexions/LA IAG service
• careers guidance in context of IAG on wider
  range of wellbeing matters
• support for careers information
• support for careers education

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Coalition CEIAG developments(up to October 2010)

• cuts to LA Connexions services24 in-year cut
  in Area-Based Grant (May 2010)
• launch of Next Step, adult careers service

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Coalition CEIAG developments(November 2010)

• Announcement of an all-age careers service
• for 13-19 young people and adults
• building on Connexions and Next Step
• fully operational by April 2012

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National Careers Service

• For adults (BIS) - 84.4M in 2012-13
• online and telephone helpline services
• face-to-face careers guidance (free to priority
  groups)
• For young people (DfE) - 4.7M in 2012-13
• online and telephone helpline services
• face-to-face careers guidance services on the
  open market, if the local provider decides to
  offer such services to schools

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NCS services for young people

• Website https//nextstep.directgov.uk good for
  careers information (but not organised on CRCI
  classification)
• Telephone helpline 0800 100 900good for careers
  advice

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Use of ICT in CEG

• Access to, and use of, ICT does not replace the
  need for face-to-face guidance it stimulates
  demand
• The use of social networks and media does not
  develop the skills needed to research careers
  informationProfessor Jenny Bimrose, Warwick
  Universityspeaking at a conference in December
  2011

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Education Act 2011 CEG

• Schools will have a new statutory duty to secure
  independent careers guidance for pupils in Years
  9-11 (consultation on extending the duty down to
  Year 8 and up to Year 13)
• careers guidance is defined as impartial,
  including information on options in 16-18
  learning and in the best interests of the pupils
• independent is defined as provided by persons
  other than those employed at/by the school
• the duty will apply to academies through the
  funding agreement
• The statutory duty to teach careers education
  will be repealed to be implemented from
  September 2012

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Funding for career guidance

• schools will have to pay for career guidance
  services from their existing budgets
• LAs spent 200million a year on the careers
  element of Connexions2009-10

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The future

• Decisions about the careers education, and
  careers guidance, young people will receive will
  be made by schools
• There will be a range of providers of careers
  guidance (NCS, LA services, private providers,
  individuals, etc.)
• LAs retain the statutory duty to provide careers
  IAG until 2012 and, from 2012, they will still
  have responsibility for support for more
  vulnerable young people, including the NEET and
  those with SEN/LDD (e.g. Transition Plans and
  Section 139a assessments)

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Statutory Guidance

• Education Act 2011
• Careers Guidance for Young People in Schools
• Statutory Guidance for School Leaders,
• School Staff, Governing Bodies
• and Local Authorities
• DfE expected February 2012
• www.education.gov.uk
• check regularly www.cegnet.co.uk

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Careers education school autonomy

• Schools already free to determine
• the amount of time allocated
• what is taught
• how it is taught
• where in the curriculum it is taught
• The only additional freedom that repealing the
  statutory duty gives schools is the freedom to
  drop it from the curriculum

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Careers education responsibilities

• equipping young people to make effective use of
  information, advice and guidance
• making cost-effective use of the career guidance
  that schools will have to pay for in the future
• developing young peoples career management and
  employability skills

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Careers education support

• www.cegnet.co.ukStatutory Guidance Impartial
  Careers Education Resources Pack (DCSF, 2010)
• www.aceg.org.uk a new, simpler Framework for
  Career and Work-related Education 7-19 currently
  under development

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ACEG Framework for Career and Work-Related
Education

• under development, for publication in 2012
• 3 aims
• developing yourself through career and
  work-related education
• learning about careers and the world of work
• developing your career management and
  employability skills
• 7-19
• make available online

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school - external guidance service partnership

• Careers Service service level agreements
• Connexions partnership agreements
• School-commissioned contracts with providers of
  career guidance

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Services from an external provider

• Pupils/students
• one-to-one guidance
• groupwork
• support on results days
• access in holiday time
• job placement service
• Parents
• information meetings
• consultation evenings

• School/staff
• careers information support
• curriculum advice
• support for work experience
• quality award
• INSET
• network meetings

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Career guidance from 2012 schools doing it
themselves

• employing a professionally qualified careers
  adviser
• training a teacher or member of the non-teaching
  staff to provide career guidance
• giving the job to someone not qualified or trained

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Career guidance from 2012local authority
approaches

• providing a traded career guidance service
• working with schools to seeking a managed
  transition to a preferred (existing) supplier
• providing a list of approved suppliers
• stepping back to allow a completely free market

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Career guidance from 2012 schools buying in
career guidance

• from the LA
• from a career guidance company (including NCS
  providers)
• from a sole trader/individual CA
• from a social enterprise formed by several CAs
• from an EBP
• from an FE college student services department
• from a university careers service
• as an individual school or as a consortium

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Providers of career guidance

• schools themselves
• impartiality?
• qualifications to provide career guidance?
• individual careers advisers
• referral and support?
• professional updating?
• cover for sick leave?
• LAs/Connexions/careers/other organisations
• existing providercontinuity links with
  targeted service
• new providerfresh start commissioning and
  contract monitoring

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Professional development for careers work

• Training for coordinator/manager (Careers
  Leader)
• careers education and guidance
• management and curriculum leadership
• Training of tutors providing guidance
• knowledge and understanding of opportunities and
  progression routes
• information and advice skills
• school-based
• Training for teachers of careers education
• Information briefings for all staff
• 14-19 options, qualifications and progression
  routesOnline resources e.g. VLE for HE-based
  courses, LSIS CPD modules

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Careers Co-ordinators in Schools

• NFER-NICEC research (DCSF 2009)
• fewer than 1 in 3 CCs have a CEIAG qualification
• 26 of CCs are not qualified teachers7 are
  qualified careers advisers
• In the future
• roles will become more blurred
• we will need a unified framework of accredited
  professional development, which includes careers
  education as well as careers information and
  careers advice and guidanceCPA ? CDI (ACEG, ICG,
  NAEGA, ?)ICT competencies and CPD