CEIAG Programme: Assessment and Measuring Impact
The CEIAG provision is reviewed by the Careers Coordinator and Careers SLT lead, together with the lead teacher of citizenship, staff and students.
The Careers Coordinator completes the Careers and Enterprise Compass tool on a termly basis to monitor the progress towards the Gatsby Benchmarks. This information is shared with OxLEP for their reporting to government departments. A survey is completed by all students who receive 1:1 career advice from the Careers Coordinator (All Year 11 students and high priority students in Year 10) to monitor the access to and quality of careers information, advice and guidance. The Careers Coordinator receives feedback from students and key partners to help review and evaluate events such as mock interviews, Careers Fest and work experience to ensure they are targeted correctly and achieve maximum impact for both students and partners. Students on work experience are asked to reflect on the skills acquired and how the experience has helped their career planning. Further evaluation of the career’s curriculum take place in the form of quizzes, questionnaire and plenary feedback both in class and via the use of online platforms such as Unifrog.
The 8 Gatsby Benchmarks are:
- A stable careers programme
- Learning from careers and labour market information
- Addressing the needs of each student
- Linking curriculum learning to careers
- Encounters with employers and employees
- Experiences of workplaces
- Encounters with further and higher education
- Personal guidance
In line with The Baker Clause, Icknield Community College have a responsibility to set students on the path that will secure the best outcome, enabling them to progress in education and work and give employers access to the highly skilled future employees that they need. Thus meaning that we act impartially and promote a full range of academic and technical options for all of our students.
Our students are offered a range of opportunities to connect with further education and training providers, in line with our statutory responsibilities. This ensures that all of our students are aware of the benefits of apprenticeships, T-Levels and other approved technical qualifications and can consider them alongside academic options when making their decisions on their next steps.
We offer our students these opportunities through our CareersFest, Careers Newsletter, Mock Interviews, Business Mentors, Work Experience, Apprenticeship Workshops and other opportunities.
