the careers lab experiment. did it work?
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Britain is facing a skills crisis that will prevent economic growth and limit the prospects of young people. The government believes that education has for far too long been ‘divorced from the reality of real work’. Introducing a more careers-focused education into schools may help to avoid such a crisis. Careers Lab is a growing structured collaboration between schools and businesses that builds on the concept of businesses going into schools, using a simple framework around four themes, bringing interactive content to support businesses of all sizes to provide an enhanced careers offering to schools. Following a successful pilot, National Grid is supporting the scaling up of Careers Lab into schools. More at http://www.careerslab.org.ukTRANSCRIPT
1 Bring together those who need to get this right. Business, teachers, careers advisers, policy makers and others need to talk – so we’ll get them together to do just that
2 Research – let’s find out what young people, their parents and their teachers think about careers advice at the moment, and what we need to do to make it better
4 Social and digital media. As a business group, let’s look at what works through channels that young people are drawn too…and let’s do more and do it better, by giving the right information through digital platforms.
3 Careers advice MUST be part of the curriculum – a bolt on or an afterthought is not good enough…comprehensive careers advice can help us guide people to develop the right skills, so we will campaign to get it integrated into lessons planning, working closely with teachers and others, reinstate a coordination body
Learn more about Careers Lab at http://www.careerslab.org.uk
Download the Careers Lab report