Career-related learning in primary. What works?
This paper provides evidence of the benefits of career-related learning for children in primary school. It maps key actions being taken to support transitions to secondary school and beyond.
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Personal Guidance. What Works?
This research explores the impact of the provision of personal guidance and includes best practice examples of how schools and colleges can implement it.
Careers Provision in Colleges: What Works?
The Gatsby Benchmarks have become a key framework around which the government’s Careers Strategy and guidance for colleges have been built.
Careers in the curriculum. What works?
Careers in the curriculum describes a range of interventions which allow students to encounter career learning as part of their everyday school curriculum, but what impact is it having?
Teacher CPD delivered by employers. What works?
What impact does teacher continuing professional development (CPD) delivered by employers have and what can we learn about lessons in best practice?
The evidence base for careers websites. What works?
Career websites can refer to a range of online learning tools, including websites and apps, that are designed for young people in order to help them make informed decisions about their futures.
Involving young people in volunteering. What works?
Encouraging volunteering is now an established government policy and more young people are recorded as volunteering than ever before.
Business games and enterprise competitions. What works?
How can business games and enterprise competitions, like mini-enterprises and ‘design and make’ simulations, help prepare young people for the world of work?
Transition skills (mock interviews and CV workshops). What works?
No generation has entered work with more qualifications and time in education. But it can still be a struggle to compete for employment opportunities. How can transition skills events help?
Work experience, job shadowing and workplace visits. What works?
Work-related learning has long been part of the careers education landscape in secondary schools, but how effective is it for preparing young people for the world of work?