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Careers education is about supporting
young people to make informed decisions.
Claudia Harris outlines practical steps
to strengthening your careers education
programme and helping students to
follow their dreams and rise as far
as their talents allow.
CLAUDIA HARRIS
CHIEF EXECUTIVE,
THE CAREERS & ENTERPRISE COMPANY
n effective careers
education is associated
with lower unemployment
and higher salaries in later
life. It’s vital for students, schools and
employers that we get this right, which
is why the Careers & Enterprise
Company was set up by the government
in 2015: to support schools and colleges
to improve their careers education. Our
focus at the time was on increasing the
volume and quality of interactions
between young people and employers.
There have always been exceptional
schools, careers professionals and
not-for-profits working in careers
education. But as a 2013 Ofsted report
found, too often provision was poorly
co-ordinated and narrow and too few
students were experiencing direct
engagement with the world of work.
Fortunately, in the past few years, careers
education has come a long way. Thanks
to the Gatsby Foundation, we now have
an accepted set of standards for what a
world-class careers education looks like.
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Bringing
your careers
education
programme
to life
20 // EMPLOYABILITY
Your roadmap to success
In December 2017, the government’s
careers strategy gave us a roadmap to
get there. Our growing Enterprise
Adviser Network is a vehicle to
achieve this.
The careers strategy had three key
ideas at its heart. First, it recognised the