Careers Champions .... and more ideas for involving parents

Hi Linda/ Chris,

Just read the careers champions information, inspirational. A great idea and what a way to raise the profile within a school, it would make a such a difference to have a few young people leading the way for careers ed.

Really enjoyed the article.

Thank you

Paul.

Thank you to Linda and her colleagues for sharing their Career Champions scheme with us. It looks really exciting. I think that student career champions are a powerful way of creating a career development culture in a school. Today, I was in a school in Surrey where we are planning to run an after-school careers club for a group of Y8s. They will have group mentoring and engage in career-building, residential and enterprise activities. Our aim is to train them as career champions too and to involve them in liaison work with Y6 pupils in the consortium. As they move up the school, they will continue to be champions for careers in their year group. If anyone would like to follow the progress of the pilot, please let me know and I'll put you in touch with the careers coordinator at the school.

Thanks David - on-line formats are a great way forward and what you say about timing re tangible CEIAG inputs makes good sense. Often large surveys about the whole CEIAG programme come too late after any memorable input so that parents don't have anything meaningful to reflect against.

What kind of overall response have you had to the parents on-line survey? and any snippets of the kinds of things they said or suggested?

Cheers

Chris T

I have set up an on line questionnaire through my schools web site to find out parent's views of careers and IAG across years 7-13.

It has been hard to engage parents generally with this but most successful when their children had just completed a significant piece of CEIAG!

I did this in the first place because I was not convinced that parental feedback to the whole school Kirkland Rowell survey of parent satisfaction was a fair reflection of CEIAG in school and wanted to test that.

If you want the detail of this please get in touch

David