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Weighing up the future?

Weighing up the future?. What Job then!!!!. EMPLOYMENT SECTORS. Explore job sectors: Essential information on the current state of the sectors listed and advice on breaking into them. Advertising and PR Broadcast, film, video/interactive media

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Weighing up the future?

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  1. Weighing up the future?

  2. What Job then!!!!

  3. EMPLOYMENT SECTORS Explore job sectors: Essential information on the current state of the sectors listed and advice on breaking into them. Advertising and PRBroadcast, film, video/interactive media City marketsConstruction CulturalEducation EngineeringEnvironmental, food chain and rural Fashion and textile Financial services Food and drinkHealth sector Higher educationHospitality Information technologyLegal services Local, regional,national governmentManufacturing Oil, gas and petroleumProfessional financial, accounting services PublishingRetail ScienceSocial care SMEs Sport and leisure TourismTransport Voluntary sector

  4. WORKING UNTIL 65…………………………… POTENTIAL LIFETIME EARNINGS At 16+ ……………GCSE…………………£783,964.00 At 18+…………….A LEVEL………….£1,000,000.00 At 21+…………….Graduate………..£1,600,000.00

  5. The bigger picture? We get you to UNIVERSITY. University prepares you for work. You may need a second degree to work. 4-Year 1st Degree ‘doubles’ employment opportunity. Post-Grad’ Russell Group earnings v other universities now insignificant!

  6. Curriculum 2000 • AS coupled to A2. • Resits/Mid-sessional modules. • Drop subjects post AS. • Grades inflation. • Multiple GCSE’s etc. • BBC>>>>AAB to access good universities 2000>>>2014 • A*, LNAT, BMAT usage. • Number caps. • ‘Tears at the top!”

  7. UCAS applications down?Fees/Finance issues post-2010Raising of grade boundaries • 2011 UCAS: 700,161 applicants. • 2012 UCAS: 653,000 applicants • 2011 UCAS: 492,030 accepted. • 2012 UCAS: 464,000 accepted. • Medicine 2012: 83,184 app’s. • Medicine 2012: 7,798 accepted. • Law 2012: 98,507 applications. • Law 2012: 17,953 accepted.

  8. Decoupling AS. 2015 removal of numbers capping, >ABB. Core-number protection..<BBC Linear courses to terminal exams. Grades deflation? Russell/1994 groups can’t fill courses. Universities react? Prediction of grades. AAA…AAB…ABB..BBC Unconditional offers. Offers or Targets? Falling numbers meeting offers. Less caution in choice planning. Candidate negotiations. Increased ‘clearing’ activity. Curriculum Review 2014-2020Impact on KEFW/students…..

  9. Great News for the Sixth Form • Increasing numbers of applicants from BTEC/NVQ backgrounds will open up places for KEFW Sixth Formers above the core-groups. • 109 Universities cleared 34,000 last August, and many from Russell Group! • Universities will use offers as targets when seeking undergraduates who can demonstrate continuing academic progress from Yr.11……….

  10. RAISING AWARENESS • Futures Office/Chowen Library. • Interviews: Use the referral system /MFAP. • University open days/visits. • Internet. 1. Prospects.ac.uk/ 2. UCAS.COM 3. www.astarfuture.com 4. Gradplus.com 5. Russell Group website 6. Apprenticeships.org • Newspapers. 1. D.Telegraph clearing list. • And there’s plenty more.

  11. Plenty of information sources

  12. “Hot Course” Listings;Many students will continue to require on-going assistance and guidance. • Medicine • Dentistry • Veterinary Science • Law • OXB • LSE/IMP/UCL

  13. ISSUES TO CONSIDER • Grade requirements for courses. • Resitting modules/subjects. • Quality of personal statement. • Spread of UNI choices for CF and CI • Need to re-apply. • Don’t apply at all. • 490,000 places…700,000 candidates. • Staying local, staying UK, trying abroad. • Finance. • Mixing courses. • Oxbridge, 1994 and the Russell Groups. • School reference…………..

  14. UCAS 2015 • Yr. 10/11 clinics for ‘hot courses’. • Autumn target new students to KEFW. • Cohort presentations L6 February 2014. • Interviewing start; 5 March for Medics, Law, Dentists, Vets, and Oxbridge Candidates. • Rest to follow • 135 students interviewed so far. Times always available??????? • Draft personal statements to tutors by……… • Hot course applications to school by Sept…..? Others by October…..? • Final UCAS application by January…..? • Applicants ‘go firm’ by May…..? • Student loan applications by May….?

  15. WHAT’S WRONG? I’VE HAD 5 REJECTIONS BUT YOU ARE SO CLEVER Barber Institute of Fine Art It’s the personal statement

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