Services for Schools and Colleges

If you are looking for guidance or delivery in any of these areas, then please get in touch:

Strategy:

  • Careers Education strategy
  • Employability strategy
  • Skills and curriculum strategy (including addressing Benchmark 4)

Shared Skills and Attributes language:

  • Creation of a skills and attributes framework or taxonomy across all subject areas for your school or college, including using my bespoke 4Cs framework
  • Consultancy on using a shared skills and attributes language in teaching and enrichment

Learning design:

  • Approaches to learning gain and measuring the impact of careers and employability education
  • Creation of learning content for careers and employability education

Staff mentoring and development:

  • Individual mentoring and career coaching for careers professionals
  • Career coaching for staff exploring career change, facing redundancy or taking voluntary severance

Careers delivery feedback:

  • Consultative discussion and feedback on careers and employability education and services

My experience and expertise includes:

  • Author of Careers Education to Demystify Employability: A guide for professionals in schools and colleges
  • Creator of SkillsMap®, a free online platform to introduce learners to the transferable skills they develop through their academic subject study
  • Author of peer-reviewed research on skills and curriculum in pre-18 education
  • Qualified in teaching and learning in higher education (1999)
  • Qualified in digital education (2018)
  • Advise on careers and employability to schools and colleges in the UK
  • Work with schools and colleges to create a shared language of transferable skills and attributes for use in curriculum
  • Qualified Careers Professional (Level 6, 2015) and Registered Career Development Professional with the Career Development Institute
  • Designed from scratch the careers education provision for an independent school (2014-15)
  • Run two UK university careers services (Chester, King’s College London) and led a federation of university careers services (The Careers Group)
  • Advise on education, careers and employability strategy for UK and international universities in Europe, the USA, Canada, South Africa, Australia and New Zealand
  • Non-Executive Director for Careers Wales, the all-age careers service for Wales