Project details: HECSU Longitudinal Programme - Career Making Curriculum Development and Career Decision-Making in Higher Education
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Description
A team led by Rosalind Foskett of the University of Southampton School of Education is undertaking a study of careers education within the higher education curriculum. The research has been sponsored by HECSU as part of their Career Making programme. The project is designed specifically to investigate the nature of credit-bearing careers education and guidance that has been integrated into the curriculum of the students.
The project aims to:
- map the provision of credit-bearing careers education programmes within UK HE and FHE institutions and to produce a fine-grained typology for this provision;
- identify the nature and characteristics of those programmes; and
- identify, through a number of vignettes, examples of interesting and innovative practice of credit-bearing careers education in higher education institutions.
The research project will involve three main phases:
- Key informant interviews to investigate the range of embedded credit bearing careers education programmes and to pilot the questionnaire. (Early Autumn 2005)
- A questionnaire to all higher education institutions designed to gather data on the nature, scope and scale of credit-bearing careers education provision embedded in the curriculum. (Late Autumn 2005)
- Vignettes of programmes that have been identified as interesting and innovative by the questionnaire survey. (Spring/Early Summer 2006)
The project is due for completion in August 2006.
