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14-19 Conference Follow-up - Diploma Development Partnerships Consultancy

Careers and Guidance

Changes to the 14-19 curriculum are creating greater choice and opening up new progression pathways for young people. To ensure students make informed choices about their future learning and career opportunities, it is vital they receive accurate impartial information, advice and guidance (IAG). This page will signpost both providers and trainees to a range of materials and relevant websites to assist you in developing your knowledge and understanding of careers-related IAG.

Follow the links below for more information on guidance or browse the selected TTRB reviews listed after the headings.

Why do you need to know about IAG?

What support is available to you?

Careers education and IAG session materials

What other support is available for teachers delivering IAG in the secondary curriculum?

Further information

The TDA's IAG web pages are  at: www.tda.gov.uk/iag

 

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How Young People Formulate their Views about the Future: Exploratory Research
This is a 77 page 'exploratory research' report relating to the perceptions and views of year 7 pupils during 2008–2009 about their future education, careers and aspirations, and the factors which shape their thinking. These pupils will be amongst the first cohort to be affected by the raising of the educational participation age (RPA) to 17 in 2013. They will also be amongst the first pupils to...
14.04.10
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Young people’s decision-making in 14-19 education and training: a review of the literature
This briefing paper reviews a specific range of the empirical research literature on the decisions that 14 to 19 year olds make about education and training. There is a section on studies which focus on demographic factors which will appeal to those interested in the relationship between macro and micro level factors; there is a section on school level studies which will appeal to those...
12.04.10
ELibrarian question
Occupational aspiration Primary
Dear Sir or Madam, I am currently at University studying Primary Education (BEd). As part of this course I am required to do a research project. My chosen subject is 'Children’s aspirations and career choices'. This has been a topic in the news recently both from Ed Balls stating that he is implementing careers advice in primary schools. Also, recent views from children thinking that they can...
04.02.10
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14-19 Conference Follow-up - Diploma Development Partnerships Consultancy
Following on from the 14-19 Diploma ITT Conference held on 13th January 2010, the TDA are offering consultancy with Diploma Development Partnerships on individual lines of learning.
21.01.10
ELibrarian question
Girls Career choice
Masters level at stage 2 looking at Diversity and I have chosen to write an essay regarding whether girls of lower class families are being directed into career paths such as catering, hairdressing, cleaning and childcare. So I am currently looking for articles and research carried out to either support or criticise on working-class girls being guided/directed into certain career choices /paths...
23.11.09
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Towards Expansive Apprenticeships, a commentary by the Teaching and Learning Research Programme
This commentary is a contribution to the public debate on apprenticeships and on the government’s plans for the continued improvement of apprenticeship provision.
31.03.09
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What are the factors that promote high post-16 participation of many minority ethnic groups? A focused review of the UK-based aspiration
This is a research review undertaken using the EPPI protocol.
19.09.08
ELibrarian question
Guidance programmes
Dear Librarian, I work as an MFL teacher in an international school and take part in an MA in Ed course. I am currently writing a dissertation about student guidance in secondary schools, being academic, personal/ social and/ or vocational. I investigate the need for guidance amongst our student population (Year 8-Year 11), the perception of the staff with regard to needs, staff potential and...
29.05.08
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The impact of 14-16 year olds on further education colleges
This report examined colleges’ practical strategies and issues for integrating 14–16 year-old learners into the more traditional profile of FE. It is based on case studies of five colleges. The aim of this research was to explore the impact that 14–16 year olds have on FE colleges, their staff and older learners, to examine the strategies that FE colleges and their staff used to integrate 14–16...
27.04.08
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The contribution made by centres of vocational excellence to the development of vocational work in schools
This is an Ofsted report of a small-scale survey to find out how centres of vocational excellence (CoVEs) in Further Education Colleges were supporting vocational work in schools, particularly as it related to the development of the 14-19 diplomas and to identify barriers to developing this support.
13.04.08
ELibrarian question
Subject choices
Hi, I'm researching into what motivates pupils to make certain subject choices in year 9. I've tried searching 'motivation' and gcse choices' but the results are very wide and not especially relevant. Any tips as to exactly what I should try searching for? Help would be much appreciated. Thank you in advance.
25.01.08
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Secondary 14-19 Vocational - Professional Catering
This is a web based video programme from Teachers TV as part of their 14-19 Vocational Series, which focuses on a case study of how collaboration between a school and a Further Education College can provide appropriate vocational education for school pupils in professional catering and commercial restaurants.
23.09.07
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Evaluation of Increased Flexibility for 14 to 16 Year Olds Programme: The Second Year
The resource is an evaluation report carried out by the National Foundation for Educational Research on behalf of the Department for Education and Skills into the second year of the Increased Flexibility Programme (IFP) for 14 to 16 Year Olds. Given the wider availability of vocational and work related learning options for 14-16 year olds since the relaxation of National Curriculum requirements...
07.03.07
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The impact of different modes of assessment on achievement and progress in the learning and skills sector
This is a very thorough and comprehensive study into the impact of various assessment modes on achievement and progress in the learning and skills sector. Commissioned to conduct the investigation by the Learning and Skills Research Centre, City and Guilds and the University for Industry, the project team had access to a wide range of institutions in the sector in order to compare and contrast...
05.03.07
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Primary pupils' experiences of different types of grouping in school
This research summary appears in the digest section of the DfES Standards Site (TRIPS). The paper it refers to, published in the British Educational Research Journal, 30 (4) August 2004, takes as its focus pupils’ perceptions, hitherto an uncommon perspective in researching the efficacy of different pupil groupings. Whilst the use of case study precludes widely applicable recommendations, the...
06.01.07
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How do young people make choices at 14 and 16?
This DfES commissioned study by the NFER explores how young people make decisions about their personalised pathways, and the ways in which structural contexts and individual attributes interact before and during the process. The research consisted of in-depth interviews with 165 young people in Years 9 and 11 (and most of these again in Years 10 and 12) across fourteen schools between February...
07.10.06
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citizED Post-16 Strand: Citizenship and Careers Education. Case Study : Citizenship and the Real Game
An article from the Citizenship Initial Teacher Training Professional Resource Network (citizED) on the links between Citizenship and Careers education.
25.08.05