Recently the Higher Education Academy reported on the outcomes of eight flexible learning pathfinder projects, funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England, which found that employers favoured distance learning as a way of delivering career-related study.
Emma is a professionally qualified adviser who has been delivering careers advice for the past eight years.
Nilesh is a qualified adviser who has been delivering careers information, advice and guidance for the past seven years.
Nilesh is a qualified adviser who has been delivering careers information, advice and guidance for the past six years.
He is concerned that under new arrangements for delivering careers advice (now the responsibility of schools, following new legislation introduced in September), school leavers may not get the advice and support they need – particularly about vocational careers.
Mann has also delivered career highlights for some of Hollywood's biggest stars - from Will Smith in Ali to Tom Cruise in Collateral.
"We have already updated guidance for schools to encourage closer links with employers to deliver career insight talks, mentoring and work tasters in order to open pupils' eyes to the opportunities available to them and help them to make the right choices at the right time.
A new report issued this year documents that each partnership successfully delivered career advancement for incumbent workers and/or job placement for unemployed jobseekers.
This could include our government, educators, parents and young people coming together to look at what else we can do to provide tools and support, as well as information which will help them to deliver careers advice more effectively.
One said universities were wasting government funding allocated for guidance on "utterly pointless" bursaries and fee waivers, and questioned their suitability to deliver careers advice and guidance because – essentially – it was a marketing exercise.
They've [the coalition government] given schools the entire responsibility to deliver careers services at the same time as withdrawing £196m of funding, so they've landed it on schools and said you've got to do it all, and, by the way, there's no money".
