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The careers sector today

Are there grounds for hope?

Tristram Hooley (Reader in Career Development)

Hope

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Hope is the belief that the future will be better than the past coupled with the belief that you have have the power to make it so.

Optimism + Agency

Shane Lopez (AKA The Hopemonger)

What the Government think the problem is…

“You've got to get out there and find people, win them over, get them to raise aspirations, get them to think they can get all the way to the top. " David Cameron

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…erm… but…

closure of Aimhigher cuts to the WP budget closure of Connexions as a national service loss of funding for Education Business Partnerships loss of the statutory duty for work experience loss of the statutory duty for career education poorly framed and much criticised new duty for career

guidance

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So what has happened?

A postcode lottery. Some good, some bad, some indifferent

provision. A lot of reports criticising government

policy. But…

Good practice is persuasive You can’t keep a good idea down! Nature abhors a vacuum. There is still policy and debate in

this area.

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Cutting out the middle man

‘For young people reflecting on which career path to follow no information is as valuable, no inspiration so powerful as the testimony of those at the front line of business. That is why the new careers guidance produced by my colleague Matt Hancock is all about cutting out the middle man and getting inspirational speakers in front of students to spark their ambitions. Students can’t aspire to lives they’ve never known. So we need business people to visit schools, engage and inspire.’

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New statutory guidance

Another nail in the coffin of professional career guidance?

It says Involve employers Use careers professionals

if you want Don’t worry about careers

education Ofsted might be watching …or they might not!

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Problems with all this

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http://www.jrf.org.uk/sites/files/jrf/young-people-education-attitudes-summary.pdf

http://www.jrf.org.uk/media-centre/raising-aspirations-educational-gap

Employers are not the whole picture

“If employer contributions are to be effective, they require logistical support, curriculum space, and receptive schools and young people. They also need to be an integral part of properly planned, delivered and reviewed careers education and guidance programmes run by schools.”Careers Sector Stakeholder Alliance

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Designing school-based WP programmes

Move away from just delivering activities

Learn more about learners needs

Develop progressive and integrated programmes

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Designing school based careers programmesCareer development is a learning activity which requires the acquisition of new skills, knowledge and meta-cognitive skills.

There are lots of activities that schools can do to support career development.

But, it is most effective if you move away from activities and design progressive programmes.

Such programmes need to link to the curriculum and students wider experience in meaningful ways.

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So what is to be done?

Recognise that everyone has pre-existing knowledge, aspirations and ideas about their future

Understand the context within which they operate, but be carefully about assumptions about how this shapes them

Provide them with career learning opportunities Support them to progress and to make transitions

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Reforming our education and employment system

Place the realisation of individual and collective potential at the heart of public policy.

Create a lifelong career development strategy for the country.

Build a new lifelong infrastructure to help people to achieve their aspirations and to level the playing field.

Create a genuine partnership between education and employment in which both are valued.

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?

Perhaps not

The UK Government is pursuing a fairly lonely course. Other countries see more value in careers work.

There is evidence that career can support educational, labour market and social equity goals. Policy makers may well re-engage.

The opposition to the current policy includes…. well pretty much everyone.

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Optimism + agency

I believe policy will change Neither governments nor

Education Secretaries last for ever.

Careers has survived (albeit somewhat underground)

The reasons it exists remain

We can help to make it so By staying informed In our schools and

universities by delivering good quality career education and guidance

In our professional communities

And in our role as citizens

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Useful links

CDI/ACEG Framework or careers and work-related education http://www.cegnet.co.uk/uploads/resources/ACEG-Framework-final.pdf

The Career Development Institute http://www.thecdi.net/

Careers England http://www.careersengland.org.uk

Careers Alliance http://careersalliance.wordpress.com/

iCeGS http://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs/

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Tristram Hooley

Reader in Career Development International Centre for Guidance StudiesUniversity of Derbyhttp://www.derby.ac.uk/icegs t.hooley@derby.ac.uk@pigironjoe

Blog athttp://adventuresincareerdevelopment.wordpress.com