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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 already. We hope that this brief guide will help you and your young person. Note: your situation may vary slightly, depending on […]

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:...

Blog: Apprenticeships & School Leaver Schemes

These are changing and unusual times Many of the usual strategies we would use to research and find opportunities aren’t as easy or are difficult to comprehend or get our heads around This guide is intended to help and give you a starting point; used alongside our main handout at:...

Blog: How To Earn £30k – Apprenticeships (EP.2)

Welcome to Episode 2 of our 7 part series, “How to Earn £30k” In this episode, Chris explores the world of Apprenticeships and how you can go about deciding if the Apprenticeship route is right for youApprenticeships are available at a range of different levels, from Level 2...

Blog: How To Earn £30k – Post 16 Options (EP.1)

Welcome to our video series, “How to Earn £30k” In this video series our Schools IAG Area Manager and Careers Adviser, Chris, explores the various educational routes available for students, and the different paths they can take to reach their desired outcomesPerhaps you’re...

Blog: If in Doubt, Be Kind.

What is the basis of careers work, if we were to distill it down to its most basic principles I am sure that many different people would arrive at a variety of positions, with a whole host of diverse arguments For my own careers practice, it is the principle of kindness as opposed to...

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