1. Career education and guidance - the changing landscape 28th June, Festival of HE, Buckingham
Tristram Hooley

2. Overview What is career guidance? What does good look like?
Where are we now?

3. Overview What is career guidance? What does good look like?
Where are we now?

5. What is career guidance?
Career guidance is a purposeful learning opportunity which supports individuals and groups to consider and reconsider work, leisure and learning in the light of new information and experiences and to take both individual and collective action as a result of this. Hooley, Sultana and Thomsen, 2017

6. Career guidance is both
part of an effectively functioning education and employment system; and a safeguard against ineffective and imperfect systems.

7. This requires changes from…
Young people
Schools
Careers providers
Employers
It also requires changes in the way that they relate to each other

8. Overview What is career guidance? What does good look like?
Where are we now?

9. Good career guidance (Gatsby)
A stable careers programme…
Learning from career and labour market information
Linking curriculum learning to careers
Encounters with employers and employees
Experienced of workplaces
Encounters with further and higher education
Addressing the needs of each pupil
Personal guidance

10. 4 or more…

11. Brokerage is essential
Education and employer links don’t just happen. They require prolonged effort. It is difficult for schools to manage employer liaison directly. The existence of a brokerage agency, brokerage professionals and a brokerage system are therefore critical.

12. From careers co-ordination to careers leadership

13. Overview What is career guidance? What does good look like?
Where are we now?

15. The current infrastructure for careers
School based provision (underpinned by the statutory guidance)
Local authority targeted services
NCS (Inspiration agenda)
Careers & Enterprise Company
Jobcentre Plus in schools
HEFCE & Offa
Information sources e.g. UCAS & NAS
LEPs
Charities
Careers & Enterprise Company

16. Towards a career strategy
Brexit
‘Just about managing’ (JAM)
T-levels
Higher education reform
Industrial strategy
Careers strategy?

17. References
Gatsby Charitable Foundation. (2014). Good Career Guidance. London: Gatsby Charitable Foundation. Hooley, T., Sultana, R.G. and Thomsen, R. (2017). Career guidance and the struggle for social justice in a neoliberal world. London: Routledge. Mann, A., and Kashefpakdel, E.T. (2014). The views of young Britons (aged 19—24) on their teenage experiences of school-mediated employer engagement’. In Mann, A., Stanley, J. and Archer, L. Understanding Employer Engagement in Education: Theories and Evidence. London: Routledge, Mann, A and Percy. C. (2013). Employer Engagement in British Secondary Education: Wage Earning Outcomes Experienced by Young Adults. Journal of Education and Work. The Careers & Enterprise Company. (2016). What Works in Careers and Enterprise? London: The Careers & Enterprise Company.

18. Contact details
Tristram Hooley Director of Research, The Careers & Enterprise Company Also at