Inquiry on Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG)
Our Chief Executive, Alice Barnard provided evidence to the Education select committee inquiry exploring the effectiveness of the careers advice system. Alice highlighted the importance of connecting careers into the curriculum, making it more relevant to the world of work and embedding careers advice with work experience opportunities.
She highlighted the importance of understanding careers alongside the context of other challenges that are facing schools:
“Careers advice and guidance is a huge issue and something that we should be discussing and we should be giving oxygen to, but it is not standalone. It matters that we have a broad and balanced curriculum. It matters that young people are able to study a variety of subjects. It matters that they are not forced into learning just the EBacc subjects and Progress 8. It matters that they can get to study things like art, drama, music and sport, which we are seeing massive decline in now.”
She also urged government to be brave and to pilot different examples to see what works best, and to build on best practice.
“Government need to be brave, put the money in and see if it works. Evaluate it properly, decide how you are going to do that from the very beginning, bring in experts and then be honest: which bits are working? Then we can learn and create a policy memory of what is happening.”
You can watch the recording here.
