Careers & Enterprise

As times change, so does the need to reflect and deliver important careers information in the most useable and appropriate manner and format. Every single website shown here is free and there are no charges whatsoever.

 Gatsby Good Career Guidance - A report on improving career guidance in secondary schools which includes the Gatsby Benchmarks.

Gatsby Good Practice - A website which shares good practice from the Northeast pilot of the Gatsby Benchmarks, and other information and support for schools.

 Compass - A self-evaluation tool to help schools to evaluate their careers and enterprise provision and benchmark against the Gatsby Benchmarks and compare it with other schools.

 State of the Nation 2017 - A report on the careers and enterprise provision in secondary schools in England in 2016/17. It examines how schools are performing in relation to the Gatsby Benchmarks, based on data from responses to the Compass tool.

 Careers & Enterprise Company - The Careers & Enterprise Company brokers links between employers, schools, and colleges in order to ensure that young people aged 12-18 get the inspiration and guidance they need for success in working life.  Careers & Enterprise Company: Schools and Colleges. Connects schools to businesses volunteers and careers activity programmes.

 National Careers Service - The National Careers Service provides information, advice, and guidance to help people make decisions on learning, training, and work opportunities. The service offers confidential and impartial advice. Qualified careers advisers support this.

 Apprenticeships Support and Knowledge for Schools (ASK) - A network of teachers, careers advisers and ambassadors who will promote apprenticeships and traineeships in positive ways to year 10-13 pupils in the North, Midlands, London, and the South.

 Baker Dearing Educational Trust - Information on University Technical Colleges.

 Find an Apprenticeship - Search and apply for an apprenticeship in England.

 Career Development Institute - The Career Development Institute is the single UK-wide professional body for everyone working in the fields of careers education, career information, advice and guidance, career coaching, career consultancy and career management. It offers affiliate and individual membership to schools which includes free CPD webinars, regular digital newsletters, a quarterly magazine, online networking groups and training at a preferential rate.

 Career Development Institute Framework for careers, employability, and enterprise education - A framework of learning outcomes to support the planning, delivery and evaluation of careers, employability and enterprise education for children and young people.

 UK Register of Career Development Professionals - The single national point of reference for ensuring and promoting the professional status of career practitioners.

 Quality in Careers Standard - The Quality in Careers Standard in the national quality award for careers education, information, advice, and guidance.

LMI for All - An online data portal, which connects and standardises existing sources of high quality, reliable labour market information (LMI) with the aim of informing careers decisions. This data is made freely available via an Application Programming Interface (API) for use in websites and applications.

 STEM Ambassadors - A nationwide network of over 30,000 volunteers from a wide range of employers, who engage with young people to provide stimulating and inspirational informal learning activities in both school and non-school settings

Studio Schools Trust - The organisation that unites all Studio Schools, acting as a linking point between Studio Schools, enabling the sharing of best practice as well as providing advice and curriculum support.

 Unistats - The official website for comparing UK higher education undergraduate course data. The site includes information on university and college courses, Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework (TEF) ratings, student satisfaction scores from the National Student Survey, employment outcomes and salaries after study and other key information for prospective students.

 Your Daughter’s Future - A careers toolkit for parents.

Your Life app - Informs and inspires young people by giving them the opportunity to discover hundreds of varied career options.

Our Harris vision is to enable all our students, across both primary and secondary phases, to receive the very best careers education possible, guided by the core principles of the Gatsby benchmarks. 

We aim that every Harris student gains access to the best possible information, guidance, and experiences during their time with us, in order to graduate on to meaningful further and higher education, vocational training, apprenticeships and employment in the most appropriate way.  

Please see more of our website for evidence of our commitment to this vision and feel free to contact our careers team any time for further information. Our contact details can be found on this website. 

https://www.harriscareerseducation.org.uk/ 

The Gatsby Benchmarks are 8 standards that have been set out to ensure that young people receive a high-quality Careers Education. All Careers provision that is offered at Harris Academy Falconwood is based around this framework to ensure that our young people are given the correct and most appropriate advice when it comes to Careers.

The 8 Benchmarks are as follows:

1. A stable careers programme – The HAF Careers programme is fully supported by the Senior Leadership Team and is seen as a fundamental element of child development. Furthermore, we regulate the standard of our careers programme by using Compass+. 
2. Learning from career and labour market information - Every pupil, and their parents, should have access to good-quality information about future study options and labour market opportunities. Our young people at HAF are extremely lucky to have two expert advisors, details can be found above. 
3. Addressing the needs of each pupil - Staff at HAF are determined to help raise the aspirations of our young people to assist them in fulfilling their potential. All our young people are different at HAF with bespoke needs, wants and ambitions, our Careers Education Programme endeavours to cater for the needs of all to allow them to progress. 
4. Linking curriculum learning to careers -All subjects highlight the importance of Careers in their curriculum throughout the course of the year, whereby it is highlighted to students the different Careers opportunities available in that subject. 
5. Encounters with employers and employees - Every pupil should have opportunities to learn from employers about work, employment and the skills that are valued in the workplace.  
6. Experiences of workplaces - Year 10 HAF students usually carry out a one-week work experience placement, this allows our young people to experience the world of work and fully understand the skills that are required to be successful. However, this year our year 10 students will be conducting a virtual work experience programme provided by Reed Recruitment company. In additional, Years 9, 11, 12 and 13 have been offered experiences in specific virtual work experiences. 
7. Encounters with further and higher education - All pupils should understand the full range of learning opportunities that are available to them. This includes both academic and vocational routes and learning in schools, colleges, universities and in the workplace. The young people at HAF have regular and sustained 
8. Personal guidance - Every pupil should have opportunities for guidance interviews with a career's adviser. At Harris Academy Falconwood we are extremely privileged to an experienced careers advisor, currently Lesley Tannock who is working with our young people every week. We believe this to be a comprehensive package for the young people at HAF.