Career Learning – Advice and Support Team (CLAS)
Career Education – the basics
For individual help and advice on CEIAG programmes please contact the
team by phone or e-mail as listed on our
home page.
This section includes basic information and links, please use the
links below:
Learning Outcomes for Career Education
Career education is a statutory requirement from years 7 to 11. For
the first time there is a non-statutory national framework for careers
education and guidance (CEG). This is a really useful document for
careers co-ordinators and personal advisers wanting some guidelines as
to what careers education programmes should contain, for Key Stages 3 & 4
and Post 16. There is useful mapping with Citizenship and PSHE.
Help Sheets & Tools
Audit your provision against the national learning outcomes
Related Areas of the Curriculum
Work Related Learning for all at Key Stage 4
From September 2004 there has been a statutory requirement that
all young people should experience some Work Related Learning at Key
Stage 4. This is one of the measures identified in the policy document
14-19 Opportunity and Excellence (QCA 2003).
Work related learning is defined as a planned activity that uses the
context of work to develop knowledge, understanding and skills useful
in work. (Seems obvious – doesn’t it.) The idea of
this guidance is to promote this direct experience of work – through
a variety of activities facilitated by the school.
Work related learning is as an essential part of the preparation for
an adult working life. Making it statutory is seen as a way of promoting
the clarity, coherence and quality of provision. A non-statutory
framework sets out the potential elements of provision for
all students. This framework can be used in a flexible way.
There is an emphasis on learning about work and enterprise alongside
ensuring young people have some basic economic understanding.
For more information visit our work related learning and enterprise pages.
The Personal Development Curriculum
The personal development curriculum encompasses any area of learning
at key stage 4 that promotes students’ spiritual, moral, social
and cultural development and helps prepare them for the opportunities,
responsibilities and experiences of adult life. Extra-curricular and
enhancement activities also make a major contribution to the personal
development curriculum. QCA has produced guidance for this area of the
curriculum, encouraging cross-curricular mapping and planning to make
best use of time for delivery of the key areas within this and to ensure
students have a coherent programme that is clear to them.
Visit
the QCA website for national guidance on PDC.
The curriculum review for secondary education is proposing a new integrated
approach through a new PSHEE framework separated into two of the Every
Child Matters Themes: Personal Well-being and Economic Wellbeing. Career
education is within the latter, alongside work-related learning and enterprise
education. For more info go to our
14-19 pages or visit
the QCA website.
VESA, local schools and colleges and Connexions have worked together
to produce a PDC support website to help practioners look at a coordinated
approach to delivery. Follow this link to
visit the PDC site.
Qualifications for CEG, PSHE & Citizenship
ASDAN programmes and qualifications
Aim: To help students develop, assess and accredit
key skills, careers & PSHE work and personal achievements. A variety
of programmes are available to suit student needs.
Target Group: options for key stage 3, 4 and post
16
Contact: ASDAN – 0117 9411126
www.asdan.co.uk
Getting Connected
Aim: An alternative framework that allows young people to achieve
in a less academic way yet learn about themselves and the world around
them.
Target group: Young people aged 15-25. Suitable for
use on an individual basis or group setting, within school or other
youth provision setting.
Contact: Training team at Connexions Leicester Shire
Partnership 0116 261 5922.
www.gettingconnected.org.uk/
Useful websites for general support and information
The web is a useful source of help, advice and ideas to develop career
education and related activity. Try out the following links:
CEGNET
CEGNET is an excellent site covering all aspects of career education.
It is run by the Career Education Support Programme and is regularly
updated to ensure you have access to national developments, resources
and advice.
One of the many useful resources is ‘Careers in a nutshell’. If
you need a basic overview for your staff involved in delivery or support
for CEIAG then this is a good place to start.
To help develop provision look at the Better
Practice II guide.
ACEG (formerly the NACGT)
The Association for
Careers Education and Guidance (ACEG) is for all
people involved in the management and delivery of careers education and
guidance for young people in the UK. The website is a source of information
on developments in CEG, ideas for the classroom and research.
Bill Law’s career café site
This is Bill Law’s career café site offering a chance to
access information on key developments, good practice and debate.
Visit our resources page for ideas and inspiration for resources to
support delivery.
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