Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 21, 2022

With a new Prime Minister and King, a controversial mini-budget, a plummeting pound and the hoopla of party conferences, even the most dedicated follower of politics might be forgiven for missing the start of the House of Commons Education Select Committees inquiry into Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG).

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Adventures in Career Development

JANUARY 31, 2024

For those people who aren’t in UK higher education, this post might be a little strange, please feel free to skip. Why the UCU matters The UCU is the union for higher and further education workers in the UK. Even for those who are in UKHE the fact that there is an election going on might come as a bit of a surprise.

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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 2, 2024

This will be underpinned by substantial investment in research and skills development. There is lots to like for me in this manifesto, but of course the party are very unlikely to form the next government. But what do they have to say about careers related topics. But, no specific mention of careers education or guidance.

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Adventures in Career Development

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The select committee Select committee’s are designed to scrutinise government policy. They don’t really have a lot of power, but they do get to look deeply at different topics and then call government ministers and others in to answer questions. The Education Select Committee has had a long-standing interest in career guidance.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 13, 2024

As they are the party most likely to form the new government it is important to think about what it means for the careers sector. Firstly the commitment to arbitrary fiscal rules may prove to be a serious limiter on the capacity of the government to act. This is a bit on the low side, but should be able to achieve something.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Where people are able to effectively manage their careers it helps governments to ensure that the education system works effectively and that the skills we develop in learning are useful in the workplace. It is time for careers education. It is time for careers education.

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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 13, 2022

She hasn’t said a lot about career guidance, but I did find an intervention into a debate in 2011 while the then Conservative government were slashing and burning the existing careers system. We expect all schools to work towards meeting the 8 Gatsby Career Benchmarks by the end of 2020. At the time she said.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 24, 2024

They were deeply integrated into educational institutions. Whilst career services can and do work with adults, in the UK they have been tasked primarily with dealing with young people and education leavers. A cultural gulf The cultural gulf between career services and Job Centres is considerable.

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

On Monday I was invited to speak at the Norwegian National Forum for Career Guidance in Oslo. This is the annual meeting between the government’s Higher Education and Skills Directorate (HK-Dir) and key stakeholders including employers, trade unions, regional leaders in career guidance and the professional association.

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Earlier this week Kier Starmer set out his big vision for a Labour Government in what was trailed as a major speech. Break down the barriers to opportunity at every stage for every child, by reforming the childcare and education systems, raising standards everywhere, and preparing young people for work and life.

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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 18, 2023

We note that effective career guidance is associated with a range of economic and social benefits and argue that ultimately higher employment, better skills alignment, increased productivity and improved employee engagement pay off at the national level for government, in terms of a well-functioning economy and improved tax returns.

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Adventures in Career Development

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

There is a lot of ink spilt on the differences between employability work and career guidance, but there is certainly a strong case to make that they are at least very similar activities if not just versions of the same thing. The sector responded, but the government ploughed on with making its austerity-fuelled cuts.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 15, 2024

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). Education The offer for education looks OK. So, I guess now it is time for the Liberal Democrats.

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 26, 2025

Vision and leadership national visions for guidance are clearly articulated in policy, supported by multiple government departments, and aligned to implementation plans. These six features of good practice can be summarised as follows. Read the report

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 30, 2025

link] This is what I had to say… Tristram Hooley, a professor of Career Education at the university and a member of the University and College Union (UCU) said: “We don’t really think there’s a very strong rationale for the redundancies. The article has just come out and makes for interesting reading.

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Adventures in Career Development

DECEMBER 22, 2023

I spent a fair bit of the year arguing that people who worked in higher education deserved to have decent pay and not to get steadily poorer. 7 During the pandemic I made a bunch of videos explaining different aspects of career theory. I got it to write a guest post on the state of career guidance in England.

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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 11, 2023

The All-Party Parliamentary Group for Skills, Careers and Employment is partnering with the Career Development Policy Group (CDPG) on a parliamentary roundtable event to explore the proposal of a “Career Guidance Guarantee” for England. You can book to attend on Eventbright.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The rich need to accept a smaller part of the pie so that we can all have access to the good life and so that we can provide the education, healthcare and welfare state that people need. We have two more years of this government and they are clearly not going to change things without a lot of pressure.

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Late yesterday afternoon we heard that the dispute had been paused because negotiations were going well and the five unions that represent workers in higher education were on the brink of a big break through. This will hopefully allow a lot of higher education workers to retire with dignity. So what is actually on the table?

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 1, 2023

Photo by Lukas on Pexels.com You wait for ages for a high-stakes, policy-relevant, if somewhat underwhelming, report on the state of career guidance to come along, and then two come along at once. It conducts thematic investigations into educational issues and reports back on the state of the nation.

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Adventures in Career Development

APRIL 30, 2025

Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit Sherwood Observatory as part of a meeting of local government, business and education stakeholders. We spent the morning talking about AI, automation and the future of work. We really benefitted from input from Professor Amin Al-Habaibeh from Nottingham Trent University who is an AI researcher.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Information was drawn from a wide range of sources with government provided LMI, resources provided by the CITB and direct engagement with employers the most popular. The overwhelming majority (85%, up from 83% in 2022) of careers practitioners were confident in supporting their students and clients to explore the construction industry.

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Vantage Circle

MAY 29, 2023

Educate yourself: Start by educating yourself on diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) by reading books, attending workshops, or participating in training programs. These metrics are indicators used to assess the performance and potential risks of a business's operations concerning environmental, social, and governance issues.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 23, 2024

Unsurprisingly the blame is placed at the feet of the political establishment (where they have a point), wasteful government (which is probably more difficult to address than they suggest) and immigrants (which is clearly stretching the truth, but is entirely expected). Education It does however have quite a bit to say about education.

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Adventures in Career Development

DECEMBER 29, 2023

In the meantime the REF process has been delayed until 2029 and lots of the rules that are going to govern the final assessment process have not actually come out yet. One of the things that I have been struggling with this year is the collapse of Twitter and the general fragmentation of social media.

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Vantage Circle

JULY 21, 2020

It has positive effects on employee input, career development, employee satisfaction , etc. A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership." – Chinua Achebe. The government of a nation mostly follows a leadership of such form.

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Penelope Trunk

JANUARY 21, 2010

About this blog | About my company, Brazen Careerist | Penelopes guide to starting a blog How to manage a college education Posted to: College students January 21st, 2010 Del.icio.us Digg Reddit StumbleUpon Tweet This Facebook The idea of paying for a liberal arts education is over. Subscribe -- free!

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 2, 2025

The funding model for higher education in England is broken and problems are likely to continue to intensify until the government addresses this funding model. Essentially the value of the fees that are paid to higher education has been in decline for over 15 years. There is no way out via better management or reduced staffing.

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International Coach Academy

OCTOBER 8, 2023

To ensure these competencies and practices social workers must invest in continued education and development. The coaching role assists the social worker to develop awareness and gain insight providing a link to self in practice that is missing in traditional education or ongoing practice and supervision. O’Connor, 2022).

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 11, 2024

Whether this is a good strategy is unclear given all of the problems that the government has after 14 years, but, I’ll leave others to debate that. So, in this post, I wanted to focus on what it says about careers. Education The education policy begins with a rousing endorsement of human capital theory.

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International Coach Academy

MARCH 2, 2023

He posited that what they did best and most enjoyed doing could be the foundation for building their career searches. government as a career master for people transitioning to completely different workplace structures. Martin Seligman’s work on positive psychology also influenced my approach to career development.

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Adventures in Career Development

JANUARY 2, 2024

Influence the policy of the next government. After that we are almost certainly going to have a Labour Government. Hopefully this means that it might be possible to engage them with the importance of thinking about career and career guidance as part of a new settlement on education and employment.

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Penelope Trunk

DECEMBER 16, 2009

Posted by Peppone on December 16, 2009 at 1:48 pm | permalink | Reply I know that the list is titled Top 50 "Companies", but I find it interesting that no government (Federal or state) agencies made the cut. This is especially true after President Obama's call to service last year. With some of the guest bloggers you have on?

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Penelope Trunk

OCTOBER 29, 2009

I will certainly make sure that my time and skills are valued, both in my pay and in my career development. And people who work for them are rarely rich kids, but people who actually care for saving lives in Tibet, or helping the victims of human trafficking, or providing sexual education to teenagers. Details on request.

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 6, 2025

In the article we critically examines the UK skills development policies as articulated in two key policy documents: the Conservative governments White Paper Skills for Jobs: Lifelong Learning for Opportunity and Growth and the Labour Partys Learning and Skills for Economic Recovery, Social Cohesion and a More Equal Britain.

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