Yesterday I contributed to the opening plenary of the OECD Disrupted Futures conference. There are more sessions taking place tomorrow, so if you sign up quick you may still be able to catch them.

The conference is subtitled ‘International lessons on how schools can best equip students for their working lives’ and takes a broad and evidence based look at career guidance and related areas that support school-to-work transitions.

The opening session was excellent and featured Anthony Mann (OECD), David Blustein (Boston College) and a host of other interesting contributors. I had the opportunity to report some initial findings from some work that I’m doing with the OECD looking at how career guidance can challenge disadvantage. There should be a paper coming out based on this work (probably in the autumn), but for now these slides should give you an idea of the sort of work that we are involved in.