Career guidance in schools - press release
23 January 2013
Commenting on the Education Select Committee’s report Careers Guidance for Young People: The Impact on Schools, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers’ union, said:
“The Select Committee is right; careers advice should not be left to schools alone and pupils should have access to face-to-face advice and guidance.
“At a time of record youth unemployment, thousands of school careers advisers are being laid off and many others are having their hours cut, leaving teenagers to finish school and college without official guidance on what options might be available for them to pursue.
“Constrained school budgets and the end of the Connexions service means pupils are being denied face-to-face careers help and instead being directed towards websites. This is an unacceptable situation.
“Successful careers education, advice and guidance rely on collaborative working taking place in schools and colleges. This should be co-ordinated by local authorities who have local knowledge of what is needed in schools in their areas, the very bodies Michael Gove’s academies and free schools programme seeks to cut out.”
Commenting on the Education Select Committee’s report Careers Guidance for Young People: The Impact on Schools, Christine Blower, General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers, the largest teachers’ union, said:
“The Select Committee is right; careers advice should not be left to schools alone and pupils should have access to face-to-face advice and guidance.
“At a time of record youth unemployment, thousands of school careers advisers are being laid off and many others are having their hours cut, leaving teenagers to finish school and college without official guidance on what options might be available for them to pursue.
“Constrained school budgets and the end of the Connexions service means pupils are being denied face-to-face careers help and instead being directed towards websites. This is an unacceptable situation.
“Successful careers education, advice and guidance rely on collaborative working taking place in schools and colleges. This should be co-ordinated by local authorities who have local knowledge of what is needed in schools in their areas, the very bodies Michael Gove’s academies and free schools programme seeks to cut out.”
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