Careers Education in Schools: the History of the Development of Careers Education in Schools and a Critical Examination of Policy, Practice and Possibilities for Its Future. - Softcover

This authoritative history of careers education in the UK is long overdue. With the future of careers education as a recognisable part of the school curriculum under some threat from current government policies, the book is particularly timely. David Andrews s lucid exposition of how careers education has developed, and of the issues and possibilities it is facing, should be of interest to all educators and others who have a serious concern for supporting young people into better-prepared futures. --Professor Tony Watts OBE, International Careers Policy Consultant and NICEC Fellow and Life President

Young people in the UK today face a fast moving and increasingly uncertain world of learning and work: changes to qualifications; increases in university tuition fees; more apprenticeships; many jobs which did not exist in the previous century and new working practices let alone the fact that unemployment for 16 to 24 year olds recently hit 20%. Never have they needed careers education more than they do now. The Department for Education recently announced their intention to remove the statutory requirement for secondary schools to provide careers education in England. Schools will be reviewing their careers education and guidance programmes as a whole in order to meet the needs of their students in this new policy context. David s book provides very timely support by comprehensively charting the history of careers education since it became a common feature in schools in the 1970s and examining the lessons learnt from the past and from other home countries. He also makes suggestions to strengthen the position of careers education in the future and provides a range of case studies of current practice which careers co-ordinators and headteachers will find very useful when considering how to reshape the leadership, management and delivery of their own programmes. --Sue Barr, Immediate Past President, Association for Careers Education and Guidance

This authoritative history of careers education in the UK is long overdue. With the future of careers education as a recognisable part of the school curriculum under some threat from current government policies, the book is particularly timely. David Andrews s lucid exposition of how careers education has developed, and of the issues and possibilities it is facing, should be of interest to all educators and others who have a serious concern for supporting young people into better-prepared futures. --Professor Tony Watts OBE, International Careers Policy Consultant and NICEC Fellow and Life President

In this new book David Andrews has written an authoritative history of the development of careers education in schools in England, from its origins in the middle of the 20th century to the present day. At a time when the Coalition Government has decided to remove from schools the statutory duty to provide careers education in the curriculum, David presents a critical examination of the current issues and options for the future. The book also includes comparisons with careers education policy and practice in other parts of the UK and in Ireland, and case studies of the leadership, management and delivery of careers education in a range of schools.