Supporting Connexions with IAG
20/11/09
Careers information, advice and guidance should now be regarded as a priority by education professionals, according to the Government’s new IAG agenda.
New requirements from the DCSF state that careers IAG must be tailored to meet the needs of an individual and reflect the ways in which young people want to access information and advice. The delivery of IAG must also be part of an ongoing active and collective process.
Many Connexions services are already embracing these new beliefs for IAG. U-Explore is working across the country with Connexions advisers to ensure excellent, personalised and impartial careers information, advice and guidance in schools is achieved.
U-Explore can help Connexions services to:
Find out more
Click on the link below for the online PDF or go to the downloads section
New requirements from the DCSF state that careers IAG must be tailored to meet the needs of an individual and reflect the ways in which young people want to access information and advice. The delivery of IAG must also be part of an ongoing active and collective process.
Many Connexions services are already embracing these new beliefs for IAG. U-Explore is working across the country with Connexions advisers to ensure excellent, personalised and impartial careers information, advice and guidance in schools is achieved.
U-Explore can help Connexions services to:
- Bring Careers IAG into the 21st Century with better online access to careers advice for all young people
- Provide support and educational resource for schools and parents to engage with young people from an early age to talk about career opportunities
- Provide greater help for disadvantaged and disabled young people in accessing work experience so that all young people -regardless of their background, ethnicity or gender - can realise their full potential
- Place an emphasis on skilled workforce outcomes
- Offer impartial information, advice and guidance about learning and work options across education
- Provide benefits of higher education and information on how to access the opportunities that it affords
- Offer a programme of work related learning (Years 10 & 11), giving young people direct insights into the world of work
- Ensure that all young people are entitled to access, through wider commissioned services
- Aide one to one advice and support from a local specialist Connexions adviser when needed
Find out more
Click on the link below for the online PDF or go to the downloads section
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