Making sense of technical assessment – Is standardisation the biggest challenge?
Anyone who has wrapped a wet towel round their head to devise a technical assessment will recognise the dilemmas: the rigour of standardised examinations, or…
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The Gatsby Foundation’s response to the Government’s Innovation Strategy
Gatsby welcomes the focus on emerging skills development and the adoption of the skills value chain approach set out today (22 July 2021) in the…
Reforming our post-16 landscape: An important milestone in the reform of technical education in England
This week, the government published the response to its consultation on the review of post-16 qualifications at level 3. This is an important milestone in the…
Government strengthens commitment to the Gatsby Benchmarks for Good Career Guidance
Today’s (15 July 2021) release of updated statutory guidance for schools, further education colleges, and sixth form colleges on the delivery of career guidance brings…
Unfinished business: business support services and further education
Government’s recent white paper, Skills for jobs: lifelong learning for opportunity and growth, sets out an ambition for College Business Centres to work with employers…
Ground-breaking Gatsby Careers Pilot Hailed a Success
An independent evaluation of the Gatsby Benchmarks of Good Career Guidance Pilot has been released. The North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) played a central role in the Pilot and Skills Director Michelle Rainbow reflects on this and how even…
New report shows improving career guidance in schools and colleges leads to better student outcomes and attitudes, and raises aspirations
New report shows improving career guidance in schools and colleges leads to better student outcomes and attitudes, and raises aspirations Improving career guidance in secondary…
EMPLOYERS’ ATTITUDES TO TRAINING – CRITICAL TO DELIVERING A WORLD-CLASS APPRENTICESHIP SYSTEM
Today (Friday 5 February) @GatsbyEd has published ‘On- and Off-The-Job Training in Apprenticeships in England‘ which draws together research by both Michaela Brockmann & Ian Laurie @UniSouthampton…
Gatsby welcomes the publication of the Government’s White Paper on Further Education
@GatsbyEd welcomes the publication of the Government’s White Paper on Further Education that sets out ambitious plans for the country to have world class technical…
The Eight Gatsby Benchmarks Of Good Career Guidance
New report sets out how to fix ‘broken career guidance system’ Career guidance in schools is failing pupils and damaging the economy, according to the…