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The Career Guidance Guarantee

Adventures in Career Development

But it is worth calling attention to the work of the Career Development Policy Group. This group is a coalition of careers sector organisations and stakeholders who campaign to influence policy. The main proposal that the group has made is called the Career Guidance Guarantee.

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New briefing paper from @theCDI – Learning and skills for economic recovery, social cohesion and a more equal Britain (The Blunkett Report)

Adventures in Career Development

I have just written a briefing paper for the Career Development Institute looking at Lord Blunkett’s report for the Labour Party, Learning and skills for economic recovery, social cohesion and a more equal Britain. In the paper I describe the vision that Blunkett’s paper sets out for the career development system.

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What does the Labour Party manifesto mean for careers?

Adventures in Career Development

As they are the party most likely to form the new government it is important to think about what it means for the careers sector. Firstly the commitment to arbitrary fiscal rules may prove to be a serious limiter on the capacity of the government to act.

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An empty box: The government’s response to the select committee’s report on career guidance

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The select committee Select committee’s are designed to scrutinise government policy. They don’t really have a lot of power, but they do get to look deeply at different topics and then call government ministers and others in to answer questions. The Education Select Committee has had a long-standing interest in career guidance.

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Guest post: Secondary school teachers and careers: Implications for training and CPD

Adventures in Career Development

Through the informal conversations and more formal reviews that form tutors have with students, and the links that subject teachers make between the curriculum and careers, all teachers contribute to young people’s career development.

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Five steps improve career guidance: An agenda for the Education Select Committee

Adventures in Career Development

Meanwhile the government is promising people that it will ‘revolutionise post-16 education, reshape the training landscape and help the nation build back better.’ For governments achieving some kind of equitable alignment between the supply and demand for skills and labour has never been more important. Build a strategy.

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Careers leadership: An idea whose time has come

Adventures in Career Development

Careers are not just important to individuals, they also matter for families, communities and societies. Where people are able to effectively manage their careers it helps governments to ensure that the education system works effectively and that the skills we develop in learning are useful in the workplace.

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