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A new report by Pye Tait, examining the breadth, quality and frequency of information being provided to school and college students about their onward education options has revealed a persistent gap in knowledge of 11–19-year-olds between academic routes and technical education routes.
In order to better understand what good career guidance for adults looks like, Gatsby intends to undertake a new programme of research that is set to include an international study.
In the decade since David Sainsbury first asked Sir John Holman to carry out a programme of international research and examine best practice in order to develop a framework which describes what world class careers education should look like, we have seen; the publication of our Good Career Guidance report in 2014, the Gatsby Benchmarks adopted as the cornerstone of the government’s careers strategy for England in 2017, and now more than 3 million young people a year are benefiting from the stability our work in career guidance has delivered.
Researcher Chris Percy writes about why there is a need to better understand the needs of those who would benefit most from adult careers guidance and how his recent work with the Gatsby Foundation supports this goal.
Today (12th December 2022) the Government published a set of recommendations from Sir John Holman which sets out a vision for an ambitious and coherent future for career guidance for young people and adults.
I was first convinced of the importance of good career guidance in schools and colleges when I was a headteacher, particularly for those young people without the social capital to be supported elsewhere. This year will mark a decade since David Sainsbury asked me to embark on my work which defined the eight Gatsby Benchmarks of Good Career Guidance. There has since been significant progress and there is much to celebrate. We now have powerful evidence that the using the Benchmarks leads to a positive impact on the progression of young people.
