Events

NICEC holds 6 Fellows meeting per year. These are followed by either seminars (4 a year) or wider Network meetings (2 a year). Members are welcome at our Seminars and Network meetings are open to all.

In recent months, we have held Seminars & Network meetings on:

Professional development for careers advisers and careers coordinators;
Career-related learning pilots in Key Stage 2;
Foundation Degree Forward;
The UKCES work on ICT in career guidance;
Towards a new professional status? Challenges and opportunities for the careers profession.

Our Network meeting discussed career guidance in public service contexts and in employing organisations. All sessions were led or facilitated by NICEC Fellows or other acknowledged experts in career guidance.

The programme for 2012:

BOOKINGS

Please contact: Professor Stephen McNair NICEC Fellow

Phone: 01603 737830

Mobile: 07594 590 572

stephen.mcnair@niace.org.uk

 Please note: Stephen works work part time, and normally monitor emails frequently between Monday and Wednesday. At other times, replies may take longer.

Charge of £30 for non-members. NICEC members and Fellows: free of charge.

The 2012 programme will be posted as soon as possible.

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Next Seminar

National NICEC Network Meeting

Monday 26 March 2012, 1.15 pm lunch for 2.00- 5.00pm

London South Bank University (Borough Road Building)

The National Careers Service: the relationship between the new service and the evolving market in career guidance

The new National Careers Service is to be launched publicly in April 2012. It is to comprise web/telephone-based services for people of all ages, plus face-to-face services for adults. NCS providers are also free to offer their services to schools and colleges, but not as part of the NCS. John Hayes, the Minister for Further Education, Skills and Lifelong Learning, has indicated that he wants the NCS to be ‘the gold standard in careers guidance’, setting ‘a standard of quality and professionalism that all providers of guidance should seek to match’ (speech to ICG Conference, Brighton, November 2011). How will this work out in practice? How is the market in career guidance likely to evolve, both for young people and for adults? What future scenarios for the role of the NCS within this market can be envisaged, both in the immediate and longer term?

Speakers:

Professor Tony Watts, Founding Director and Life Fellow of NICEC, will introduce and chair the meeting.

Verity Bullough, National Director Employer and Learner Services at the Skills Funding Agency, will outline the design of the new service, and the plans for launching and developing it.

Professor Stephen McNair, NICEC Fellow, President of NAEGA, and Director of NIACE’s Centre for Research into the Older Workforce, will discuss the likely impact of the new service on existing services for adults.

David Andrews, NICEC Fellow, will talk about the emerging models for schools taking on their new responsibilities for securing independent careers guidance for pupils, the range of providers, and the role of the NCS in relation to services for young people in general.

The afternoon will offer full opportunities for participant discussion and debate. As well as plenary question-and-answer and discussion sessions, small-group discussions will consider the particular issues raised for career development work in different sectors.

Full details including the programme are available here

Past Seminars

2011

Thursday 24^th November

Systems thinking: what does it offer career theory and practice?

 The speaker was Audrey Collin. The materials can be found in the Member’s Area.

Tuesday 25^th October:  Network meeting 2 – 5pm

The Blueprint in the UK

The presenters were:

Jackie Sadler, NICEC Fellow

Lesley Haughton, NICEC Fellow

Tristram Hooley, Head of International Centre for Guidance Studies, and NICEC Fellow

The session considered the key issues from the LSIS trial of the Blueprint in England with learners throughout a range of settings, including further education and sixth form colleges, work-based learning, schools and higher education, adult learning and NEET projects.

The materials will be posted in the Member’s area shortly.

June Seminar:
SOARing to Success – a process and pedagogy for personal, social, academic and career development.The Seminar leaders were: Arti Kumar and Doug Cole

The materials can be found in the NICEC Members’ area.

 July  Seminar

Student career decision-making: Evidence from a survey of STEM students

The Seminar leader was Charles Jackson, NICEC Fellow

March Network Meeting:
Towards a new professional status? Challenges and opportunities for the careers profession
The speakers were: Dame Ruth Silver, Professor Julia Evetts and Professor Stephen McNair.

Julia Evetts’ paper is in the Members’ area.