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Career: created from a lifetime of work. An ongoing accumulation of many jobs and roles a unique perspective, experience and deeper understanding of a field or industry.

By 2025,  over 65% of today’s students will be working in jobs that don’t yet exist.

For more than 30 years The Good Schools Guide has provided trusted information and advice to parents, helping them with one of their most important decisions  - choosing the right schools for their children.

The Good School Guide: Careers (GSGC) is a natural extension of that help, and is aimed at young people and their parents who are making decisions about the next step…and the next.

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    Apart from having excellent career staff - essential guides to an unknown land - careers departments should offer lots of Careers development. These are programs and opportunities where and through which you can learn about careers; opportunities to experience work, involving real employers or other outside experts.

  • What is Further Education (FE)?

    Further Education refers to educational choices made after reaching your 16th birthday. FE covers all qualifications lower than a degree.

  • Ace educational acronyms

    Acronyms may make communication speedier for insiders but they confuse, irritate and deter the uninitiated.

  • What is an apprenticeship?

    Apprenticeships may well be the flavour of the moment, but they are not a new idea. In fact, apprenticeships hark back to Medieval Times. Craftsmen would take on young men (14 -21 years) offering them a free training in exchange for basic food and lodgings. An apprentice would be tied to their employer for several years during which they would learn as much as they were able to become a qualified craftsman themselves. During the Industrial Revolution, the concept was abolished, and it was not until the 1960s that it re-emerged in the UK. Read more

  • Degree apprenticeship

    For the last thirty years, a degree has been viewed as being virtually the only pathway to a high-level level managerial career. In fact, many employers demand a 2.1 or above before they will even consider looking at a CV, essentially creating an internal triage system.

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