5 Steps to Effectively Monitor Gatsby Benchmarks throughout 2024 – 2025

As we move into the 2024-25 academic year, the Gatsby Benchmarks continue to be a critical framework for ensuring high-quality careers guidance in schools and colleges. However, monitoring progress against the benchmarks can be challenging when you already juggle many responsibilities. Here, we outline five practical strategies to help you stay on top of these […]

Grofar selected for BETT Futures

At Grofar, we are honoured to be selected for BETT Futures, the ‘home for the world’s most inspiring edtech startups’.  Grofar fulfils a long term ambition to help improve the careers service in schools and raise student aspirations. Grofar was founded by members of the trusted, award-winning team that created Schoolcomms. Extensive research performed by Grofar identified how important (and often undervalued) the careers service […]

Careers Silver Bullet?

In Sir John Holman’s 2014, Gatsby report he said that there was no “silver bullet” that would of itself transform the quality of careers advice in schools. Instead, he said schools needed to provide a series of measures to a high standard. His views are based on extensive research in the UK, Canada Germany, Holland, […]