Download The Downs School Case Study Key Benefits: Empowers students to take ownership of their career development through the student passport, allowing each student to set future goals and develop of individual plan that grows over time. Provides a central database for businesses, making engagement easier to track and develop. Will allow the school to […]
The planned shake-up of school funding means many head teachers may need to rely more and more on their own fundraising activities. Teachers unions claim the new National Funding Formula sets the basic level of funding too low and it has been calculated that 98% of schools will face a funding cut for every pupil. […]
Developing a strong employer & alumni network is key to providing a high-quality careers service. Having access to external services and extra resources enables careers services to a provide more opportunities and great careers guidance at minimal cost. Maintaining contacts, services and SLA’s is admin intensive. Grofar takes care of this for you. Grofar have […]
The team have been busy collecting feedback and fulfilling our commitment to improving Grofar. We will release new features and updates every 2 weeks which I look forward to sharing with you. I am delighted to take you through some of our recent product updates. Careers Plan – Student Entitlement Statements The Careers Plan generator […]
We recently came across a video on Ofsted’s YouTube channel where Adrian Lyons, Her Majesty’s Inspector for Ofsted, talked about schools not monitoring the quality of provision in this area. In the video, Adrian talks about how school’s monitoring of the quality of the provision is currently lacking, and that the training of teacher’s within […]
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, […]
