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1586508

	registered interest
	date	17/02/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Work Experience
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what steps she is taking to help increase the number of (a) internship and (b) graduate scheme opportunities advertised to students by universities.
	tabling member constituency	Warrington North
	tabling member printed	Charlotte Nichols
	uin	147282
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 27/02/2023 answer text <p>All students, regardless of their background, should benefit from high quality, world-leading higher education (HE) that leads to excellent outcomes. The department is committed to tackling low-quality courses and ensuring that students and the taxpayer see returns on their investment.</p><p>The Office for Students (OfS) introduced a revised condition of registration B3 in October 2022, which sets stringent minimum thresholds for student outcomes. This includes requirements for the proportion of students that progress on to positive graduate destinations such as professional or managerial employment.</p><p>HE providers are independent and autonomous, and have freedom over the methods used to support students to progress and achieve their goals. Internships and graduate scheme opportunities play a valuable role in preparing students for their careers. Degree apprenticeships also provide a route to professional qualifications. <br> <br> All registered providers are required to meet the OfS’s condition of registration. Where the OfS finds that a provider has breached a condition of registration, it will take the required action.</p><p> </p><p> </p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 27/02/2023 13:13:07 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
	tabling member	4799 label Biography information for Charlotte Nichols

1676455

	registered interest
	date	07/12/2023
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Work Experience
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, if she will take steps to help enable opportunities for pupils to undertake work experience with local employers in-between their studies.
	tabling member constituency	York Central
	tabling member printed	Rachael Maskell
	uin	5854
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 14/12/2023 answer text <p>Secondary schools and colleges are expected to adopt the government’s careers framework, the Gatsby Benchmarks of Good Career Guidance, to develop and improve their careers programmes. The benchmarks describe eight aspects of high-quality careers guidance based on international evidence. A link to the guidance can be found here: <a href="https://www.gatsby.org.uk/education/focus-areas/good-career-guidance" target="_blank">https://www.gatsby.org.uk/education/focus-areas/good-career-guidance</a>.</p><p> </p><p>Gatsby Benchmark 6 sets out that every pupil should have first-hand experiences of the workplace through work visits, work shadowing and/or work experience to help their exploration of career opportunities and expand their networks. The criteria for meeting the benchmark are that by the age of 16, every pupil should have had at least one experience of a workplace, additional to any part-time jobs they may have. By the age of 18, every pupil should have had one further such experience, additional to any part-time jobs they may have. The proportion of schools and colleges fully achieving Gatsby Benchmark 6 has increased from 37% in 2017/18 to 64% in 2022/23.</p><p> </p><p>The department is funding The Careers &amp; Enterprise Company to support schools and colleges, through their network of local Careers Hubs, to deliver experiences of workplaces. Funding for 2023/24 will deliver three distinct strands of activity:</p><ol><li>High-quality work experience for up to 15,000 young people with the greatest economic disadvantage.</li><li>Experiences with 20 employers from key growth sectors for up to 5,000 young people with a guarantee of a high-quality mock interview.</li><li>Virtual experiences for year 7-9 pupils in up to 600 institutions in coastal and rural areas.</li></ol><p>The department will ensure that all of the learning and good practice from this work is disseminated widely and will inform future policy on work experience.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 14/12/2023 13:58:24 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
	tabling member	4471 label Biography information for Rachael Maskell

1687889

	registered interest
	date	06/02/2024
	answering body	Department for Education
	answering dept id	60
	answering dept short name	Education
	answering dept sort name	Education
	hansard heading	Work Experience
	house id	1
	legislature	25259 pref label House of Commons
	question text	To ask the Secretary of State for Education, how many students in full-time education have completed a work experience placement of (a) five days and (b) more than five days in each academic year since 2010-11.
	tabling member constituency	Feltham and Heston
	tabling member printed	Seema Malhotra
	uin	13315
	answer	answer is ministerial correction date of answer 19/02/2024 answer text <p>The careers statutory guidance makes it clear that schools and colleges should offer every young person at least one experience of a workplace by age 16 and a further experience by age 18. This captures a range of activities such as job shadowing, workplace visits and volunteering. This guidance is accessible at: <a href="https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/careers-guidance-provision-for-young-people-in-schools" target="_blank">https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/careers-guidance-provision-for-young-people-in-schools</a>.</p><p>Data on experiences of the workplace is captured by the Careers and Enterprise Company and their latest findings are available at: <a href="https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/our-evidence/evidence-and-reports/insight-briefing-gatsby-benchmark-results-2022-2023/" target="_blank">https://www.careersandenterprise.co.uk/our-evidence/evidence-and-reports/insight-briefing-gatsby-benchmark-results-2022-2023/</a>. This data is based on a national dataset of 4,534 state-funded secondary schools and colleges. In the 2022/2023 academic year, 68% of schools reported that the majority of students had some experience of the workplace by the end of year 11, and over 77% of schools reported that their students had experience of workplaces in year 12 or year 13.</p><p>At post-16, pupils have access to work placement opportunities through the T level programme. T levels are designed to equip students for skilled employment, whilst also providing a high-quality route to further study, including apprenticeships, higher technical education and degree level study. The programme includes a T level industry placement where students spend a minimum of 315 hours working with external employer(s), which equates to approximately 45 days. Since T levels were first introduced in 2020, 94% of the 2020 cohort and 94.9% of the 2021 cohort have completed their industry placement. This is a total of 4250 students who have successfully completed their industry placements.</p> answering member constituency Harlow answering member printed Robert Halfon question first answered 19/02/2024 13:09:31 answering member 3985 label Biography information for Robert Halfon
	tabling member	4253 label Biography information for Seema Malhotra