This week (Tuesday 5 March), as part of National Careers Week, Gatsby was proud to support the Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC)’s hosting of Careers Excellence 2024 – a celebration of outstanding practice in careers.
Hosted by Baroness Morgan of Cotes at the House of Lords, the event featured presentations and Q&A sessions from ten Careers Champions – organisations and partnerships who have been contributing to excellent careers education for young people.
The CEC made use of powerful new and existing data, including from the national Compass tool, which measures schools and colleges’ progress against the Gatsby Benchmarks, to inform the selection of the Champions. Schools, colleges, special schools, charities, local authorities, careers hubs and employers large and small were all represented, reflecting the broad ecosystem of stakeholders which supports a modern careers programme.
Champions highlighted included Lancaster & Morecambe College, a partner in the Lancashire and Cumbria Institute of Technology; Altimex Limited, an electronics firm with 19 employees dedicated to high quality employer encounters; and Morgan Sindall Construction, whose work to develop a diverse workforce of the future includes providing T-level industry placements, as profiled elsewhere by Gatsby.
