Academic and careers progress is recorded on Moodle. In summary, Telford College will be working towards full compliance with the Gatsby Benchmarks, which are detailed below: 1. A stable Every College should Every college should have a stable, careers have an embedded structured careers programme that programme programme of career has the explicit backing of the senior education and management team, and has an guidance that is known identified and appropriately trained and understood by person responsible for it. learners, parents, The careers programme should be teachers, employers published on the college’s website in and other agencies. a way that enable learners, parents, college staff and employers to access and understand it. The programme should be regularly evaluated with feedback from learners, parents, college staff and employers as part of the evaluation process. 2. Learning from During their study programme all learners career and labour should access and use information about market career paths and the labour market to information. inform their own decisions on study options. Parents should be encouraged to access and use information about labour markets and future study options to inform their support to the learners in their care. 3.Addressing the Learners have A college’s careers programme should needs of each different career actively seek to challenge stereotypical student guidance at thinking and raise aspirations. different stages. Colleges should keep systematic records Opportunities for of the individual advice given to each advice and support learner, and subsequent agreed decisions. need to be tailored to The records of advice given should be the needs of each integrated with those given at the learner. A college’s previous stage of the learner’s education careers programme (including their secondary school) where should embed equality these are made available. Records should
Academic and careers progress is recorded on Moodle. In summary, Telford College will be working towards full compliance with the Gatsby Benchmarks, which are detailed below: 1. A stable careers programme Every College should have an embedded programme of career education and guidance that is known and understood by learners, parents, teachers, employers and other agencies. Every college should have a stable, structured careers programme that has the explicit backing of the senior management team, and has an identified and appropriately trained person responsible for it. The careers programme should be published on the college’s website in a way that enable learners, parents, college staff and employers to access and understand it. The programme should be regularly evaluated with feedback from learners, parents, college staff and employers as part of the evaluation process. 2. Learning from career and labour market information. During their study programme all learners should access and use information about career paths and the labour market to inform their own decisions on study options. Parents should be encouraged to access and use information about labour markets and future study options to inform their support to the learners in their care. 3.Addressing the needs of each student Learners have different career guidance at different stages. Opportunities for advice and support need to be tailored to the needs of each learner. A college’s careers programme should embed equality A college’s careers programme should actively seek to challenge stereotypical thinking and raise aspirations. Colleges should keep systematic records of the individual advice given to each learner, and subsequent agreed decisions. The records of advice given should be integrated with those given at the previous stage of the learner’s education (including their secondary school) where these are made available. Records should
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