Futuretrack: preentry, information, advice

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Futuretrack pre-entry, information, advice
guidance

• Jane Artess
• Director of Research
• Higher Education Careers Services Unit
• June 10th 2009

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Futuretrack

• Four stage longitudinal tracking study of career
  development of the 2006 cohort of entrants to HE
• Funded by HECSU and undertaken by the Institute
  for Employment Research at the University of
  Warwick, led by Professor Kate Purcell.
• (see also www.futuretrack.ac.uk)

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HECSU

• Commissions and undertakes research into
  student/graduate career development and
  decision-making
• Supports university careers advisory services
• Aims to put research outcomes into practice
• (see also, HECSU Development Plan 2008 2015 at
  www.hecsu.ac.uk)

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Session outline

• Getting into HE
• Support and guidance to get into HE
• Who studies what?
• Career planning
• Changing
• Discussion

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Type of HEI of accepted applicants,by type of
prior education
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Support and guidance not enough information on
..
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Not enough information about the implications of
post-16 subject choices, comparing selected
school students response by gender
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Who studies what?
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I am worried about the prospect of having to
repay loans and debts when I have completed my
course
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I am worried about the prospect of having to
repay loans and debts when I have completed my
course
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Clarity of Career plans by subject at
application
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and one year later
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changing ideas about career after 1 year in HE
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Reasons for changing course
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Discussion

• what do these findings mean for practice?

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• Thank you
• Contact details
• j.artess_at_prospects.ac.uk
• 0161 277 5208