Post GCSEs: Are 16-year-olds making informed decisions, or following in their siblings’ footsteps?

A  recently published online survey of school and college leavers and current university students, undertaken by The Student Room, on the subject of post-Level 3 options and the influences that affect them, indicate that one third (32 per cent) of those who took part in the study rated their school’s careers advice as ‘weak’.

Working together on a way out of the exclusion zone

By guest blogger Richard White

Alternative provision, (AP) is a highly diverse, sometimes controversial and even contested sector of educational provision, and has been the subject of intense governmental scrutiny and criticism.