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Cantrill, A. (2024). The impact of cultural experiences on mental health, career readiness and decision making in late adolescence: an international school qualitative interview study. British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 52(3), 580–599. (Link)
| U C | International / migrants
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Further education | The paper offers interesting and useful insight into the cultural influences on career guidance choices, through qualitative interviews with 17 and 18 year olds in different parts of the world.
Contributions are made to understanding diverse groups, particularly at a key age between education and either employment or tertiary or vocational education. | International |
| Careers Enterprise Company, (2024), Enterprise Adviser Survey (Link) | P C E | Secondary education
| Enterprise advisers are volunteers from the business community who collaborate with schools and colleges to provide career insights to students. This report provides results from a survey from springtime. While good progress was found, the research also highlighted the need for a more agile model. 94% of EAs also believe that a closer link between education and business can help drive UK growth. | England |
| Institute for Employment Studies (2024), Effective Transitions Fund (Link) | P C E | Disadvantaged students | This independent report was created by the Institute for Employment Studies (IES) in partnership with the International Centre for Guidance Studies (iCeGS) and the Behavioural Insight Team. It examines the impact and outcomes of the Career and Enterprise Company's partnership programme with JPMorganChase to provide targeted career support to disadvantaged young people at the point of transition from education. Despite many students being at risk, the programme was able to see 94% tran sition successfully to college or training at 16. The scheme will now be expanded.
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| Career and Enterprise Company (2024), Insight briefing 1: the promise of primary (Link) | P C E | Primary education | This is an interim report on a programme from the Careers and Enterprise Company called Start Small; Dream Big. The early results, from over 300 English schools, show "a range of positive outcomes for schools, teachers, pupils, parents and the employers who took part." Highlights included a strong uptake of careers education in the curriculum (from 14% to 55%). | England |
| Cedefop (2024), News on VET (Link) | U E | Vocational and technical pathways | Cedefop produced a series of update reports in September for different member states of the EU to show progress in the rollout of vocational and technical education. | EU |
| Euroguidance (2024), Lifelong Career Guidance: A Future Vision. Academia Study Visit Ireland (Link) | E | Adult and lifelong guidance | An interesting event took place in Ireland where the Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI) hosted it’s first Academia Study Group from 8th to the 10th May 2024 (inc). The purpose was to formulate a vision for lifelong career guidance in Ireland. | Ireland |
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Mann, A., & Chang, Y. (2024). Enhancing green career guidance systems for sustainable futures. JP Morgan report for the OECD (Link)
| C E | Green guidance | Education systems need to adapt to sustainable futures. This JP Morgan study for the OECD examined 87 programmes within primary and secondary education across 20 countries, aimed at enhancing students' understanding of and progression towards green careers. These programmes, though not exhaustive, provide valuable insights into the conceptualisation and implementation of green guidance programmes.
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Bankins, S., Jooss, S., Restubog, S. L. D., Marrone, M., Ocampo, A. C., & Shoss, M. (2024). Navigating career stages in the age of artificial intelligence: A systematic interdisciplinary review and agenda for future research. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 104011. (Link)
| C | Artificial intelligence and its effect on careers | This paper provides a timely literature review and discussion of the different factors that AI may play on future careers. With many questions yet to be answered, the authors propose a research agenda. The implications are discussed by career stage covering school, university-to-work and established workers and also discuss some cross cutting themes. | General |
Roberson, Q., Hoff, K., Pyram, R., & Holmes, J. (2024). Diversity in the career lifecycle: A review and research agenda. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 103998. (Link)(Paid)
| C | Understanding diversity effects across the career lifecycle | The authors propose key questions for research that considers how different diverse identifies affect career progress: "Based on a review of theories that articulate how social identity shapes career outcomes, we highlight a need for additional theorizing that captures the dynamism and complexity of human experience and intersecting roles embedded within the career lifecycle." Five key stages are covered: identity-choice, information processing-choice, information processing-adjustment, inclusion-adjustment, and inclusion-exit | General |
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