Best practise

Examples of good practice

• Occasional one-off activities that stimulate learners and enrich a specific aspect of the curriculum.
• Occasional one-off activities that stimulate learners and enrich a specific aspect of their personal development.
• Occasional visits by company representatives.
• Schools’ careers and work-related learning managers have a number that they can call.

Examples of better practice

• Occasional one-off activities that stimulate learners and enrich a specific aspect of the curriculum, and are followed up.
• Occasional one-off activities that stimulate learners and enrich a specific aspect of their personal development, and are followed up.
• The school’s careers education and guidance provision has built-in points throughout the year where representatives from industry contribute.
• Schools are able to contact a named schools liaison manager at a company with whom they are regularly able to arrange activities in support of applied, enterprise and work-related learning.

Examples of best practice

• A school works in partnership with a local employer.
• A day or half day is made available on a regular and frequent basis for the whole school to undertake applied, enterprise or work-related learning.