Exeter HE Advisers’ Day Emma Stephenson, Outreach Manager February 2010.
Exeter HE Advisers Day Careerpilot Sue Lewis: Western Vocational Progression Consortium.
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Transcript of Exeter HE Advisers Day Careerpilot Sue Lewis: Western Vocational Progression Consortium.
ExeterHE Advisers Day
Careerpilot
Sue Lewis: Western Vocational Progression Consortium
The free Careerpilot website:
•What it offers•HE Skills Map
•How could you use Careerpilot?•How could it be improved?•Would you be interested in being trained to use HE Skills Map?
This session:
The WVPC partnership:Broadening access to HE across the SW
From July 2014, all 12
unis in the SW will fund
Statutory GuidanceThe duty to secure independent and impartial careers guidance for young people in schools. Sept 2
012 Schools .. Duty to secure access to independent careers.. Y9-11
Requires governing bodies to ensure that all registered pupils.. are provided with independent careers guidance from Y8 – Y 13
Careers guidance and inspiration in schools. Statutory Guidance
April 2014
Ofsted - Giving careers guidance a higher priority in inspections – in
judging leadership and management
Aims to help…
Young people
Schools
Parents and carers
Universities
Website helping 13—19 year olds in the South West plan their future study & work:
What is Careerpilot?External Links
Lists of useful websites
•General careers•Training•HE
Go to:www.careerpilot.org.uk/foradvisers/usefullinks
• Posters • Smart cards • Parents’ leaflet
Free materials
Free 50 to each school
715 users completed online survey:
•95% said it was useful•91% said it was interesting•85% will use again•86% learnt about routes to uni through work•81% info. learnt info. about jobs•33% no relative with uni exp.
Feedback from users
320,000 visits to the siteJan 2015 40,000 (best ever)
I was very unsure about the different
career paths I could take, but the site helped me find a career that I am
interested in and could look more into.
It's great. I’m choosing my
options soon, it really helped
me.
I now know what qualifications I need to go to university.
‘It showed me what my strong points were and what I needed to do in order to improve’
‘It helped show me my skills and how to apply them in the real world.’
‘It helped me recognise skills I did not know I had.’
‘It made me think about higher education more.’
‘It helped me believe I can go further in my career’
Helps post 16 students:
•Map their skills and experiences gained from study, life and work to the skills valued in HE - pre and higher level study, at Levels 3 and 4.•See their potential for higher level study•See that the gap between Level 3 and 4 is achievable
• Is a web-based tool which works in conjunction with teacher support/guidance.
• Participants create their own account and can access all their records.
What is it?
• Autonomy• Collect• Communicate• Personal
development• Evaluate• Initiate• Knowledge• Lead• Manage• Numerical• Plan• Problem solve
• Review• Teamwork
Did you believe you had the potential to study at a higher education level (54 Y12 respondents)
Being part of the HE Skills Map project has: (54 Y12 respondents)
Questions
1. How could you use Careerpilot?2. How could it be improved?3. Would you be interested in
being trained to use HE Skills Map?
Parents Zone coming 2015