Careers education in secondary schools / Department of Education and Science.

  • Department of Education and Science
Date:
1973
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Licence: Open Government Licence

Credit: Careers education in secondary schools / Department of Education and Science. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    TABLE 8: SCHOOLS WHERE THE SENIOR CAREERS TEACHER IS HEAD OF DEPART- MENT SOLELY FOR CAREERS WORK: SCALE FOR SENIOR CAREERS TEACHER (Scale operative from 1 April 1972) Scale for senior Size of school careers teacher 0-500 501—800 _ 801+ All schools No. % No. % No. % No. % 1 9 oT —_— — 3 1 i2 2 2 —_— — 10 3 13 4. 23 3 3 44 53 116 41 104 33 264 38 4 30 36 160 56 189 59 379 55 5 — — — _— 10 3 10 1 All schools 83 100 286 100 319 100 688 100 TABLE 9: SCHOOLS WHERE THE SENIOR TEACHER IS A HEAD OF DEPARTMENT BUT NOT SOLELY FOR CAREERS WORK: SCALE FOR SENIOR CAREERS TEACHER (Scale operative from 1 April 1972) Scale for senior : Size of school Careers teacher 1-500 501-800 801+ All schools No. % No. % . No. % No. % 1 307 34 174 16 106 19 587 23 2 42 5 28 3 28 5 98 4 3 243 27 213 19 27 5 483 19 4 278 31 542 50 274 49 1094 43 5 31 3 131 13 120 Ze 288 11 All schools 01 100 1094 100 555 100 2550 100 Table 8 provides an analysis of the allowances paid in the 14% of all schools shown in the top line of Table 7. Of these 688 schools, 389 offer scale 4 posts or above; this represents less than 8% of all schools in England and Wales. Table 9 analyses allowances paid in the 51% of all schools shown in the second line of Table 7. From Tables 8 and 9 taken together, it will be seen that in 1,771 schools (36% of all schools) careers education is directed by a senior member of staff with a scale 4 allowance or above; but in only 389 of these is the responsibility solely for careers work. 39. Schools were asked to estimate time given to careers work in the classroom, time spent on other careers work as described in paragraph 40, and the total time allotted to all aspects of this work. As Table 10 records, in nearly half of all schools, the total time allotted to careers education and guidance amounts to no more than the equivalent of one-fifth of the work load of one full-time member of staff. Many schools cannot calculate separately the time spent in careers work other than careers teaching. But only 15% of all schools record that careers teaching occupies as much as one-fifth of the work load of one member of staff.
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