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date	24/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	STEM Subjects
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government which sectors are included within the definition of STEM used to inform the Careers guidance and access for education and training providers guidance published by the Department for Education in January.
tabling member printed	Baroness Garden of Frognal
uin	HL5061
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>The government’s careers strategy puts employers at the heart of a high-quality careers programme for young people. We are asking every school and college to use the Gatsby benchmarks that define all the elements of excellent careers provision, including encounters with employers and employees and experiences of workplaces. They will be measured against these benchmarks.</p><p> </p><p>Statutory guidance, ‘Careers guidance and access for education and training providers’ (attached), published in January 2018, sets out how schools meet the Gatsby benchmarks. We will shortly publish equivalent guidance for colleges. The guidance documents include an expectation that each school and college offer every young person at least one encounter with an employer each year from years 7 to 13. Due to the growing demand for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills, particularly in sectors such as engineering, construction and manufacturing, this should include encounters with STEM employers. Rather than defining STEM in a particular way, our statutory guidance sets out that schools should give pupils access to a broad range of STEM employers. We want employers of all sizes, and from all sectors, to offer encounters that inspire people and provide information regarding the skills that employers need. We have also placed a new legal duty on schools to ensure there are sufficient opportunities for young people to hear directly from providers of technical education qualifications and apprenticeships. This will ensure that young people learn about the alternatives to academic and school-based routes, leading to better-informed choices.</p><p> </p><p>The statutory guidance outlines that schools and colleges should begin to work towards meeting the benchmarks by the end of 2020. Schools can assess how their support compares against the benchmarks by using Compass, an online self-assessment tool developed by The Careers &amp; Enterprise Company (CEC) and The Gatsby Charitable Foundation. The CEC will publish a report annually, based on data gathered from the Compass tool, showing what progress schools and colleges have made in meeting the Gatsby benchmarks.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted will continue to hold schools and colleges to account for the quality of careers provision. Matters relating to careers guidance contribute to judgements under three of the four areas in the school inspection handbook, and all four areas of the further education and skills inspection handbook. Through its training and communications with inspectors, Ofsted continues to remind inspectors of the importance of careers guidance.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL5062 HL5063 HL5064 question first answered 07/02/2018 17:45:00 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name Careers guidance and access for education and training providers.pdf title Careers guidance
tabling member	3842 label Biography information for Baroness Garden of Frognal

829559

registered interest
date	24/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Schools: Vocational Guidance
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they will monitor whether education providers are fulfilling their requirement to ensure that every young person has an encounter with an employer in each academic year from year 7 to year 13.
tabling member printed	Baroness Garden of Frognal
uin	HL5062
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>The government’s careers strategy puts employers at the heart of a high-quality careers programme for young people. We are asking every school and college to use the Gatsby benchmarks that define all the elements of excellent careers provision, including encounters with employers and employees and experiences of workplaces. They will be measured against these benchmarks.</p><p> </p><p>Statutory guidance, ‘Careers guidance and access for education and training providers’ (attached), published in January 2018, sets out how schools meet the Gatsby benchmarks. We will shortly publish equivalent guidance for colleges. The guidance documents include an expectation that each school and college offer every young person at least one encounter with an employer each year from years 7 to 13. Due to the growing demand for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills, particularly in sectors such as engineering, construction and manufacturing, this should include encounters with STEM employers. Rather than defining STEM in a particular way, our statutory guidance sets out that schools should give pupils access to a broad range of STEM employers. We want employers of all sizes, and from all sectors, to offer encounters that inspire people and provide information regarding the skills that employers need. We have also placed a new legal duty on schools to ensure there are sufficient opportunities for young people to hear directly from providers of technical education qualifications and apprenticeships. This will ensure that young people learn about the alternatives to academic and school-based routes, leading to better-informed choices.</p><p> </p><p>The statutory guidance outlines that schools and colleges should begin to work towards meeting the benchmarks by the end of 2020. Schools can assess how their support compares against the benchmarks by using Compass, an online self-assessment tool developed by The Careers &amp; Enterprise Company (CEC) and The Gatsby Charitable Foundation. The CEC will publish a report annually, based on data gathered from the Compass tool, showing what progress schools and colleges have made in meeting the Gatsby benchmarks.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted will continue to hold schools and colleges to account for the quality of careers provision. Matters relating to careers guidance contribute to judgements under three of the four areas in the school inspection handbook, and all four areas of the further education and skills inspection handbook. Through its training and communications with inspectors, Ofsted continues to remind inspectors of the importance of careers guidance.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL5061 HL5063 HL5064 question first answered 07/02/2018 17:45:00 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name Careers guidance and access for education and training providers.pdf title Careers guidance
tabling member	3842 label Biography information for Baroness Garden of Frognal

829560

registered interest
date	24/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	STEM Subjects
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they will monitor whether education providers are fulfilling their requirement to ensure that every young person has at least one encounter with a STEM employer between the academic years of year 7 to year 13.
tabling member printed	Baroness Garden of Frognal
uin	HL5063
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>The government’s careers strategy puts employers at the heart of a high-quality careers programme for young people. We are asking every school and college to use the Gatsby benchmarks that define all the elements of excellent careers provision, including encounters with employers and employees and experiences of workplaces. They will be measured against these benchmarks.</p><p> </p><p>Statutory guidance, ‘Careers guidance and access for education and training providers’ (attached), published in January 2018, sets out how schools meet the Gatsby benchmarks. We will shortly publish equivalent guidance for colleges. The guidance documents include an expectation that each school and college offer every young person at least one encounter with an employer each year from years 7 to 13. Due to the growing demand for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills, particularly in sectors such as engineering, construction and manufacturing, this should include encounters with STEM employers. Rather than defining STEM in a particular way, our statutory guidance sets out that schools should give pupils access to a broad range of STEM employers. We want employers of all sizes, and from all sectors, to offer encounters that inspire people and provide information regarding the skills that employers need. We have also placed a new legal duty on schools to ensure there are sufficient opportunities for young people to hear directly from providers of technical education qualifications and apprenticeships. This will ensure that young people learn about the alternatives to academic and school-based routes, leading to better-informed choices.</p><p> </p><p>The statutory guidance outlines that schools and colleges should begin to work towards meeting the benchmarks by the end of 2020. Schools can assess how their support compares against the benchmarks by using Compass, an online self-assessment tool developed by The Careers &amp; Enterprise Company (CEC) and The Gatsby Charitable Foundation. The CEC will publish a report annually, based on data gathered from the Compass tool, showing what progress schools and colleges have made in meeting the Gatsby benchmarks.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted will continue to hold schools and colleges to account for the quality of careers provision. Matters relating to careers guidance contribute to judgements under three of the four areas in the school inspection handbook, and all four areas of the further education and skills inspection handbook. Through its training and communications with inspectors, Ofsted continues to remind inspectors of the importance of careers guidance.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL5061 HL5062 HL5064 question first answered 07/02/2018 17:45:00 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name Careers guidance and access for education and training providers.pdf title Careers guidance
tabling member	3842 label Biography information for Baroness Garden of Frognal

829561

registered interest
date	24/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	STEM Subjects
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government how they will monitor whether education providers are fulfilling their requirement to ensure that every young person has a STEM-focused careers experience before they reach year 11.
tabling member printed	Baroness Garden of Frognal
uin	HL5064
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>The government’s careers strategy puts employers at the heart of a high-quality careers programme for young people. We are asking every school and college to use the Gatsby benchmarks that define all the elements of excellent careers provision, including encounters with employers and employees and experiences of workplaces. They will be measured against these benchmarks.</p><p> </p><p>Statutory guidance, ‘Careers guidance and access for education and training providers’ (attached), published in January 2018, sets out how schools meet the Gatsby benchmarks. We will shortly publish equivalent guidance for colleges. The guidance documents include an expectation that each school and college offer every young person at least one encounter with an employer each year from years 7 to 13. Due to the growing demand for science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) skills, particularly in sectors such as engineering, construction and manufacturing, this should include encounters with STEM employers. Rather than defining STEM in a particular way, our statutory guidance sets out that schools should give pupils access to a broad range of STEM employers. We want employers of all sizes, and from all sectors, to offer encounters that inspire people and provide information regarding the skills that employers need. We have also placed a new legal duty on schools to ensure there are sufficient opportunities for young people to hear directly from providers of technical education qualifications and apprenticeships. This will ensure that young people learn about the alternatives to academic and school-based routes, leading to better-informed choices.</p><p> </p><p>The statutory guidance outlines that schools and colleges should begin to work towards meeting the benchmarks by the end of 2020. Schools can assess how their support compares against the benchmarks by using Compass, an online self-assessment tool developed by The Careers &amp; Enterprise Company (CEC) and The Gatsby Charitable Foundation. The CEC will publish a report annually, based on data gathered from the Compass tool, showing what progress schools and colleges have made in meeting the Gatsby benchmarks.</p><p> </p><p>Ofsted will continue to hold schools and colleges to account for the quality of careers provision. Matters relating to careers guidance contribute to judgements under three of the four areas in the school inspection handbook, and all four areas of the further education and skills inspection handbook. Through its training and communications with inspectors, Ofsted continues to remind inspectors of the importance of careers guidance.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton grouped question UIN HL5061 HL5062 HL5063 question first answered 07/02/2018 17:45:00 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton attachment 1 file name Careers guidance and access for education and training providers.pdf title Careers guidance
tabling member	3842 label Biography information for Baroness Garden of Frognal

829564

registered interest
date	24/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Student Wastage
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government what plans they have to address the findings of the University Partnerships Programme Foundation and Social Market Foundation report On course for success? Student retention at university with particular reference to the conclusion that students from ethnic minority and disadvantaged backgrounds are more likely to drop out.
tabling member printed	Baroness Hussein-Ece
uin	HL5067
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 01/02/2018 answer text <p>The government is committed to ensuring that everyone with the potential has the opportunity to benefit from higher education (HE), irrespective of their background. Entry rates to full-time HE for 18 year olds from all ethnic groups increased in 2017, reaching the highest recorded numbers.</p><p> </p><p>There is, however, more to do to ensure that students, including disadvantaged and black and minority ethnic students, are supported both to access higher education and also to participate and succeed. That is why we have taken a number of actions on this.</p><p> </p><p>From April 2018, Access Agreements will be extended and become Access and Participation Plans. This recognises the importance of HE providers supporting both access and participation, including non-continuation and non-completion of courses, and student success for disadvantaged groups. Additionally, the Teaching Excellence and Student Outcomes Framework will use non-continuation rates as a core metric when ascribing Gold, Silver or Bronze status to individual universities. This can be found at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teaching-excellence-and-student-outcomes-framework-specification" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/teaching-excellence-and-student-outcomes-framework-specification</a>. Furthermore, the new Transparency Condition created by the Higher Education and Research Act will require many HE providers to publish their completion rates broken down by gender, ethnicity and socio-economic background. Making this data public will expose those providers who are underperforming in this area.</p><p> </p><p>The new regulator for HE, the Office for Students, will also have a statutory duty to have regard to the need to promote equality of opportunity in relation to the whole student lifecycle for disadvantaged and traditionally under-represented groups, not just access.</p> answering member printed Viscount Younger of Leckie question first answered 01/02/2018 17:22:38 answering member 4169 label Biography information for Viscount Younger of Leckie
tabling member	4164 label Biography information for Baroness Hussein-Ece

829578

registered interest
date	24/01/2018
answering body	Department for Education
answering dept id	60
answering dept short name	Education
answering dept sort name	Education
hansard heading	Intercountry Adoption
house id	2
legislature	25277 pref label House of Lords
question text	To ask Her Majesty's Government, further to the Written Answer by Lord Agnew of Oulton on 15 November 2017 (HL2833), when children adopted from abroad will have access to the educational entitlements referenced in the answer; and whether they will publish the letter from the Minister of State for School Standards sent to local authorities in England on the subject.
tabling member printed	Lord Triesman
uin	HL5080
answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 07/02/2018 answer text <p>Educational entitlements for children adopted from outside of England remain under consideration. We have not set a timetable for any changes to educational entitlements but have given a clear commitment to amend the School Admissions Code, to give children adopted from care overseas the same entitlement for priority school admission as those adopted from care in England, at the earliest opportunity. I will place a copy of the letter from my right hon. Friend, the Minister for School Standards, in the Library of both Houses.</p> answering member printed Lord Agnew of Oulton question first answered 07/02/2018 17:49:37 answering member 4689 label Biography information for Lord Agnew of Oulton
tabling member	3651 label Biography information for Lord Triesman