GOOD CAREER GUIDANCE: THE NEXT TEN YEARS
After nearly two years of extensive research and consultation, the Gatsby Benchmarks have been updated for 2024 and beyond.
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Good Career Guidance for Adults
Adults in England deserve a high-quality careers guidance system to help them navigate the ever-changing world of work. Our aim is to assist in improving and simplifying the guidance available to adults in this country, we recognise that in order for an adult to make better quality careers decisions they must have access to a trusted and effective career guidance infrastructure.
Delivering Technical Education
Technical education offers young people a clear route from school into rewarding technician occupations, and progression to higher education for those who wish to study further before entering employment. The implementation of the Sainsbury Review recommendations will bring a step-change in the quality of technical education provision in England.
High-quality technical qualifications and apprenticeships
We are committed to strengthening technical qualifications and apprenticeships in the UK, and we see informing and influencing policy makers and opinion formers as part of our role in securing a lasting, positive impact on the technical education landscape. We do this by sharing the results of our proof-of-principle projects and by commissioning policy-relevant research.
Embedding the Good Career Guidance benchmarks in schools and colleges
Good career guidance has never been more important. Changes in technology, the technical education system and in the labour market mean that the jobs available and the skills and qualifications needed to reach them are changing all the time. The COVID-19 pandemic has added further disruption, with a disproportionate impact on young people as they enter the labour market. Many skilled jobs require specific education and training, and young people need more support to make better-informed decisions about their future.
Innovation and emerging skills
In January 2021, the Government published the FE White Paper – Skills for jobs: lifelong learning for opportunity and growth. The ambitions set out in the White Paper for transforming technical education are significant. Gatsby believes that a key element to achieving this transformation is ensuring that technical education is responsive to the needs of innovation.
Teacher recruitment, retention and development
Gatsby recognises that to achieve our ambitions regarding the supply of STEM skills to the UK workforce, we must ensure that young people are taught by well-qualified and motivated specialists.
The Technician Commitment
Launched in 2017, the Technician Commitment offers a framework for taking a strategic approach to ensuring status and opportunity for technicians working in UK higher education and research institutions.
Sainsbury Management Fellows scholarship
We fund the Sainsbury Management Fellows scholarship, which helps young engineers with leadership qualities to undertake full-time MBA courses at world-class international business schools.
Piloting the Good Career Guidance benchmarks
After the publication of Sir John Holman's Good Career Guidance Report, which first set out the framework of eight Gatsby Benchmarks, we began working with the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) to pilot the framework in 16 schools and colleges. The pilot institutions were of varying types, sizes and Ofsted ratings and were challenged to work towards all eight Benchmarks over two years, with an evaluation tracking the impact of this activity until autumn 2019.