Moving On magazine Careers and Qualifications for School Leavers

Your A-level choices wouldn’t be art, drama and music if you knew you wanted to do a degree in medicine at university to become a doctor, now would they??? Well we sincerely hope not! But joking apart, and according to a survey, many young people who are in the process of choosing their A-level subjects really do need more guidance ... Read More »

Apprenticeships offer an alternative way of kick-starting your chosen career and the government is committed to creating three million - will you be one of them? Let’s take a look at apprenticeships. An apprenticeship combines employment and on-the-job training with off-the-job learning with a training provider. How old do I have to be to be an apprentice? You must be ... Read More »

How do you write your first CV and show an employer you’re employable when you’ve never had a job? Write about what you’ve learned at school, that’s how! Many of you will never have had a job so you might be unsure about how to produce your first CV and write one that makes you sound employable. If you’re worried ... Read More »

Starting at FE college can be a daunting prospect at the best of times but if you have autism spectrum condition or ASC, it can be even more difficult. Joe Hibbert is the SEND (Special Educational Needs and Disability) Transition and Review Lead at Gloucestershire College and he’s got some helpful tips for making sure that your transition from school ... Read More »

There are some new and unusual apprenticeships well worth considering. Apprenticeships are nothing new. In fact they are very, very old really and have always represented a way of training up staff, let’s take a look at some of your questions about apprenticeships as well as a few of the newly approved standards. Can I still get a degree if ... Read More »