Former education secretary Nicky Morgan will chair the Careers and Enterprise Company, an organisation she set up while in government, it has emerged.
Baroness Morgan, now a Conservative peer, established the organisation in 2014 to boost careers guidance in schools and colleges.
It now presides over an extensive network of paid enterprise co-ordinators; trained professionals who develop career plans and make connections with businesses, and enterprise advisers; volunteers from the business world who work with individual schools and colleges.
It also oversees the government’s careers hubs, groups of between 20 and 40 secondary schools and colleges which work together to help each other meet the so-called Gatsby benchmarks of good careers education.