“The provision of an online service for careers information, advice and guidance is an essential tool for today's Internet-literate students. An online facility enables students to plan their career within and outside the school environment, empowering them to make a CHOICE on their future, both in a supported and unsupported mode.

Additionally, having all the schools curriculum data on the Internet provides an easy single point of entry and data readily available for students, parents and carers. The college effort in updating the curriculum data is minimised, thus enabling resources to be focused on delivering the educational needs as well as presenting a view on curriculum and career opportunities to the school community.

The delivery in June 2008 of an Individual Learning Planner and supporting tools and guides will provide real added value to the individual students and the school’s career guidance activities”

Dave Parker – Deputy Head - Rooks Heath College

Choice will help your students make a successful transition into post 16 education or training. It will provide a key (and free) CEG tool for your careers education work, making life easier for your staff and streamlining your tutorial work. It wil also be valuable for your parents. For schools with 6^th forms, it is a valuable marketing tool, and will help you to manage your progression targets.

For schools operating in consortia or offering linked courses with colleges it offers a convenient and attractive way for young people to see the whole range of options available

Using Choice will ensure that Schools meet their statutory obligations with regard to the September Guarantee, progression targets  and general support and guidance of young people within the requirements of the Ofsted framework

Your Connexions PA is the primary Choice interface with school pupils, whereas your borough14-19 co-ordinator is responsible for working with you to ensure your that curriculum information is up-to-date and you have all the materials and support you need for careers advisors and year heads.

Please visit the download section to see how you might use the marketing toolkit.  For example, it contains a screensaver for upload onto school PCs.  If you’d prefer to have this adapted to include your school logo, please This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .  We can also provide personalised wallpaper.

And, if you produce a schools newsletter, you can use one of the print-ready adverts (in three different sizes to fit the space you can provide) or simply cut and paste our recommended copy, to promote the site to young people and their parents/carers.

To download the marketing toolkit, click here .

The Connexions toolkit also has a range of resources to help you:

• Lesson plans – years 8 – 11 and post-16 students
• Continuous loop presentations for young people or parents/carers
• Five minute presentation for delivery by professionals
• Presentation for school assemblies and tutorials
• Suggested text for school and college publicity

 To download the Connexions toolkit, click here.

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