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A clear strategy for careers advice

Careers guidance
A number of reports and investigations have highlighted on-going problems with careers advice and guidance. Marion Plant discusses how her schools and colleges work to offer students impartial and wide-ranging advice about their futures.

As the leader of two further education colleges, and the CEO of a growing multi-academy trust including two studio schools, I am passionate about our core business, which is to provide learning that gives our students a clear line of sight to work.

A report published earlier this month by the UK Commission for Employment and Skills (UKCES), 157 Group and the Gazelle Colleges Group – A New Conversation: Employer and college engagement – calls for stronger links between colleges and employers. Against the backdrop of employers saying they struggle to find skilled workers, I wholeheartedly support this call to action.

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