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Huge reduction in careers guidance is hardly a surprise

Careers guidance
The sharp fall in the provision of careers guidance in schools is not surprising, but the schools themselves are not to blame ― they have been let down by the Department for Education, says SecEd editor Pete Henshaw.

It is been heartening in recent months to have seen such a focus in public debate on how we can achieve a parity of esteem between vocational and academic education.

Most recently, it was the CBI, normally an organisation I struggle to agree with, which championed the creation of vocational A levels and a more rounded education.

While the focus of the current administration is still firmly fixed on the academic above everything else, the public debate has been fiercely and strongly in support of a rounded education which balances academia, skills and creativity – and which champions all pathways to the workplace.

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