The £119,912, awarded by The Careers & Enterprise Company, will be used to enable young people to make informed career decisions with the support of a personal careers adviser and through using the award winning website Careerpilot.
Careerpilot is a free to use, impartial, careers website providing information about career pathways to 14-19 year olds in the South of England. The site is co-funded through a partnership of twenty universities and is hosted by the University of Bath.
The funding will enable Careerpilot to support six schools in the South West to develop an integrated, whole-school model of delivering cost-effective and targeted personal careers guidance. Using the Careerpilot website and a new ‘Triage Tool’ will help determine the starting guidance needs of individual students in Year 11 and Year 12.
Mike Nicholson, Director of Undergraduate Admissions and Outreach at the University of Bath, said:
The University of Bath, on behalf of a unique partnership of twenty universities, is delighted to have been awarded this funding so that the Careerpilot team can develop a whole-school model of delivering excellent, efficient and targeted personal guidance to young people.
We hope that this will provide a model that can be applied more widely to support students making more informed choices about their opportunities for progression to further study or employment.
Students in the six pilot schools will benefit from using Careerpilot for: pre-guidance workshops, triage, targeted personal one-to-one guidance, and follow-up through school-tutor processes.
If the pilot is successful in 2020-21 the Careerpilot Team plan to offer the model to schools across the South of England.