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Time: 8 hours Level: Intermediate
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Introduction Resource
- Successful transitions – whether from lower secondary to upper secondary; at age 16; into work-based training or university; or into work at any age – are life-enhancing for individuals and crucial to...
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| | 1. Helping students plan their future
1.1 The importance of good careers guidance Resource
- Most people spend over 40 years working for a living. Some work until they drop. Imagine how it must feel to spend the whole time doing something that you dislike or even hate. That's where careers work...
1.2 What is a ‘career’? Resource
- Understanding the key terms in CEG is vital to understanding your role in it. Very few students go into full-time jobs at 16 and the concept of ‘career’ as a job for life is irrelevant to the twenty-first...
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| | 2. What CEG should a school provide?
2.1 Providing careers education and guidance Resource
- It is crucial for young people to have high-quality and impartial information and guidance to get the most out of their learning, to enable successful progression from one stage to another and to inform...
2.2 What CEG can deliver for schools Resource
- In the Ofsted inspection framework for English schools, based on the five themes from Every Child Matters, CEG is part of the school's self-evaluation of how it helps young people ‘achieve economic well-being’....
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| | 3. What do you need to know and do?
3.1 Transition points for 11–19 year-olds Resource
- When 16 year-old Mike Barker told people he wanted to be a film director they laughed at him… Mike's long journey to Hollywood stardom as a director began with a teacher at his school who instilled a sense...
3.2 Opportunities and progress Resource
- A young person's life inside and outside school needs to include opportunities that enhance their personal development and the chance to explore activities that extend their interests. You need to be aware...
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| | 4. Your school's programme and you
4.1 CEG programmes Resource
- My favourite teacher was a PE teacher we called JJ. We got on well. He was a cool guy. He was a teacher I could talk to without any problems. He would sit me down sometimes and try to sort me out. A lot...
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| | References and Acknowledgements
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