CASE STUDY: Hall Green School, Birmingham

Download Hall Green Case Study Key Benefits: Communication with pupils. Communication with employers. Better administration of events with record of attendance, feedback and staff reviews. Organising an up to date careers plan incorporating the Gatsby Benchmarks. About the school Hall Green is a comprehensive secondary school midway between central Birmingham and Solihull with 900 pupils […]

Grofar Product Update

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 […]

Adrian Lyons from Ofsted says school’s provision for enterprise and employability “is less effective than it could be”

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 […]

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, […]