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Job well done? Seven ways to improve your careers education provision

How can schools ensure that they are providing high-quality careers advice to all students? Where Becky Cox has seen schools providing great careers education, they have usually focused on these seven elements...
Career focus: Statutory guidance states that all schools are required to have a named careers lead and must offer students regular opportunities for meaningful encounters with employers - Adobe Stock

When I was at school, my sole piece of career guidance was filling in a very rudimentary careers questionnaire on paper, based on a series of “yes/no” questions.

This was sent away and, several weeks later, it revealed that the career most suited to me was a prison governor – I suspect that was because I had said I wanted to work with people, that I wanted to work indoors, and that I liked rules.

It will come as little surprise to you to know that this wasn’t the career path I chose (I shall resist making comparisons between prison governance and secondary school leadership!).

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