January 15, 2008

Career advice should be neutral

Schools may soon be required to provide their pupils with impartial career advice, under new guidelines being discussed in the House of Commons.

This may seem like something that they would be doing anyhow, but many schools at the moment promote their own courses and different versions of qualifications. This follows a series of complaints that schools are persuading their pupils not to go to other educational establishments such as colleges to study.

These plans will fall in line with the governments new rules on education where students will have to stay in education until the age of eighteen.

Source [BBC News]