In the light of the Labour Party’s promise to align Jobcentre Plus and the National Careers Service in England, Professor Pete Robertson offers some useful reflections on the opportunities , and pitfalls, that such a move might offer. One of the promises in the Labour Party manifesto for the Westminster election is to kickstart economic…
My tour of the manifestos has now reached Britain populist right wing party the Reform Party (the people who brought you Brexit). At the time of writing they are surging in the polls and looking to capture around a sixth of the votes. Because of our weird electoral system this is only likely to result…
Earlier this week I participated in a webinar organised by the Career Development Policy Group to discuss the current election and what it means for career guidance. We discussed the Career Guidance Guarantee and talked through the party manifestos. It is worth a listen if you are interested in these kinds of policy issues.
I’m working my way through all the manifestos for parties in the current election to see what they have to offer for careers. I started with the current government (pretty much ignores careers), then went to the Labour Party (not bad on career, but not so good on the wider economic and public sector picture)….
Last month I had the opportunity to participate in an ISE webinar to talk about what works in careers and employer engagement in schools. It was a great opportunity as, as well as me, there were also employers and representatives of schools there. I talked about currently policy and practice, but then we all rolled…
Photo by Narcisa Aciko on Pexels.com I recently had the opportunity to be interviewed as part of Veilederforum-podden (the Norwegian guidance forum’s new podcast). In the podcast I discuss the issue of sustainability in career guidance with Mari Thorbjørnsrud from the Norwegian Directorate for Higher Education and Skills. In the conversation we discuss both the…
I was recently very privileged to be interviewed by Hoda Kilani’s Career Info show on YouTube. Hoda is a career development expert and practitioner based in Alberta, Canada. Hoda’s Career Info consists of career discussions with leading global experts in career development. Through these discussions she seeks to increase awareness about the importance of career…
It was a great privilege to be asked by Tom Richmond to talk about career education on the EDSK podcast, Inside your ED. It was really great to be able to go into a bit of depth about the history of recent careers policy and to consider what we could learn from it. In the…
If you want to hear me talking about the history of online surveys you are in luck. I’m interviewed on Liam Geraghty’s Questioning Tech podcast. In this podcast he takes us through the history of surveys with me popping up towards the end to talk about online surveys. Warning though, he is also selling a…
I had the great privilege of joining Chris Webb and MeetSabiha on #WeAreCareers yesterday. If you haven’t watched this show before, you really should. It is a regular YouTube show which looks at all things careers and features all sorts of interesting guests. You can get it most easily by subscribing to the CDI YouTube…