At Arden College, we are committed to careers education, information, advice, and guidance ensuring students leave us with the right tools and values to become independent, active citizens or employed.
Careers support
We support students, with their parents and carers, to consider their future options, realise their potential and decide how their skills and experiences fit with opportunities in the local job market. We support students to prepare for their preferred destination whether that is to continue with further education, employment, training or living independently. We have a person-centred approach to student outcomes through our EHCP annual reviews process where we collaborate with all stakeholders to shape clear and ambitious targets for young people to prepare for their next steps.
We collaborate closely with the local authority due to the vulnerable nature of our students, who all have special education needs and disabilities with Education, Health, and Care plans in place. We ensure that we know of all the services available to support students to access these and share this knowledge amongst our community.
There are several terms used to describe Careers Education, and there is inevitably some overlap between them:
- Employability/work skills is the delivery of learning about careers and the skills and knowledge required to become employable. This is embedded as part of the curriculum
- Work experience/placement is the provision of opportunities to develop knowledge and understanding of work and to develop skills for employability through direct experiences of work
- Careers information is the provision of information and resources about courses, occupations, and career paths
- Careers advice is more in-depth explanation of information and how to access and use information
- Careers guidance or careers counselling is a deeper intervention in which an individual’s skills, attributes and interests are explored in relation to their career options