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Blog: Year 9 Careers Information & Advice: A guide to choosing GCSE options

We are at the time of year when many year 9 students begin to consider what subjects they wish to take for their GCSE options. It may be that you aren’t sure what to take or a bit confused. Our short guide will help you think about different factors to be aware of. We also […]

Blog: What is the shape of the graduate job market? (Part 2 of 2)

This article continues my intent to explore the extent to which the 80% rule is a useful concept for exploring the nature of the graduate job market I am seeking to answer:Is 80% a good approximation for the overall number of graduate jobs which can be entered via any degree subject Of...

Blog: What is the shape of the graduate job market? (Part 1 of 2)

Over the years I have worked with students who have said they wish to go to university to get a good job yet, but when probed as to what this is and how this works, they have struggled to articulate what this may mean to them Many have not heard of the graduate training & job market (referring...

Blog: Body-Focused Repetitive Behaviours – More Than Just a Bad Habit

We may all know someone who fiddles, twiddles, picks, pops or nibbles at parts of their body It could be thumb sucking, nail biting or knuckle cracking for example, which are all fairly common human behaviours, usually of no great obvious concern But what if these behaviours do become more...

Blog: A Parent/Carer’s Guide to Post-16 Options

Your young person is now in Year 11 and preparing for their GCSEs Although these are changing times, now is the time to prepare for post 16 choices if you have not started alreadyWe hope that this brief guide will help you and your young personNote: your situation may vary slightly,...

Blog: Strange Days – Results Day Guide 2020

Be Prepared These are indeed the strangest of days to be picking up A-level or GCSE results this August You may be feeling a combination of many different things This is okHow you pick up your results this year will vary by school or college, as will the support on hand Some places have groups...

Blog: Divided We Fall: Loneliness in Lockdown

With social distancing restrictions in place to slow the spread of the Covid-19 virus, many of us may be missing the regular face-to-face, close contact with others The 15th June marked the start of Loneliness Awareness week hosted by the Marmalade Trust (marmaladetrustorg) and it comes just as the...

Blog: HumanKIND

In recent months humankind has been charged a paradoxical fate; to sustain our society we need to break it a little We need to go against what is engrained in us for individual and collective survival and socially distance from one another, in a bid tackle a virus which thrives on our communality...

Blog: Mind the Gap: Protecting our mental health as physical health becomes a global priority

Recent events have prompted some rather radical changes to our everyday lives with schools closing, businesses ceasing trading, implementation of social distancing measures, scarcity of basic provisions and restrictions on liberty, as measures are taken to reduce the spread of covid-19The...

Blog: Year 12 Higher Education / University Research (strategies in a pandemic world)

These are changing and unusual times Many of the usual strategies we would use to research and find opportunities are harder to apply or difficult to comprehend and get our heads around This guide is intended to help and give you a starting point; used alongside our main handout at:...

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