A career of choice: attracting talented young people into house building

The purpose of this research was to establish a better understanding of how young people view house building as a career choice and to provide insights to improve recruitment of those with enthusiasm and talent into the sector. It collected the views of over 500 teenagers and young men and women between the ages of 14 and 24, and the views of those who advise them on careers.NHBC Foundatio

Win - Win Growing Your Team Growing Your Business: ‌ A Working Guide For Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) Practitioners Seeking to Work with Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

The Centre for Guidance Studies (CeGS), University of Derby, has written this document for IAG practitioners and managers. It is an integral part of a project funded by the East Midlands Development Agency (emda) to promote awareness of the benefits of information, advice and guidance (IAG) for learning and work to both individual career and wider workforce development in small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). It also seeks to ‘kick-start’ activity in this area by providing practitioner guides

Improving the management and delivery of Careers Education and Guidance Evaluation of Investor in Careers

This report has been written by the Centre for Guidance Studies (CeGS) based at the University of Derby on the basis of research commissioned by Connexions Cornwall and Devon, which was undertaken between March and August 2005 and provides a critical appraisal of the current operation and effectiveness of Investor in Careers (IiC)

Win - Win Growing Your Team Growing Your Business: ‌ A Working Guide For Information, Advice and Guidance (IAG) Practitioners Seeking to Work with Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs).

The aims of this guide are to enable you: •To review what business success means to you, what key challenges you face, and how you are going to meet them. •To undertake a personal review, including considering what personal success means to you. •To learn from the experience of other successful businesses in the region how best to develop your staff team to enable them and your business to fulfill their potential. •To find out where you can get information and advice about taking things forward

All things being equal? Equality and diversity in careers education,information, advice and guidance

In its education chapter, the Commission’s first Triennial Review of evidence on inequality, How Fair is Britain? Equality, Human Rights and Good Relations in 2010, found that educational attainment has been transformed in recent years. Around half of young people are now getting good qualifications at 16 (5+ A*-C GCSEs or equivalent including English and Maths) and, in 2008/09, 2.4 million students enrolled in higher education in the UK – a considerable change from a time when educational opportunities were only available to a minority of young people. However, the evidence shows that educational attainment continues to be strongly associated with socio-economic background. Stereotypical information and guidance can limit young people’s options and aspirations at an early age. Careers advice often reinforces traditional choices and young people have limited information on the pay advantages of nontraditional routes. Nearly one in four young people say that they have not had enough information to make choices for their future. This rises to just under a quarter of disabled young people

Evaluation of 'Front End' of the learning Gateway in the East Midlands

This report has been written by the Centre for Guidance Studies (CeGS) for Government Office East Midlands (GOEM). It is based on research CeGS was commissioned to undertake by GOEM between September - December 2001 into the quality of the ‘frontend’ of the Learning Gateway within the East Midlands region. The aim of the research was to explore the quality of the ‘front-end’ of the Learning Gateway in the East Midlands. This has involved benchmarking the activities of the four East Midlands Careers Services, and Connexions Lincolnshire and Rutland and an analysis of their systems and procedures for supporting their clients and Personal Advisers (PAs). Feedback was gathered from Managers, PAs, young people and key delivery partners. In addition, the linkages between the ‘front-end’ and the destinations of the Learning Gateway clients were considered through an analysis of Regional and Head Office Management Information System (RHOMIS) data

Delivering the 'front end' of the Learning Gateway

This paper is based on research that the Centre for Guidance Studies (CeGS) was commissioned to undertake by Government Office East Midlands (GOEM) between September - December 2001 into the quality of the ‘front-end’ of the Learning Gateway within the East Midlands. The research was planned with the active co-operation of the Careers and Connexions Services in the region - CareerPath (Northamptonshire) Ltd, Connexions Lincolnshire and Rutland, Derbyshire Career Services Ltd, GuideLine Career Services, and Leicestershire Careers and Guidance Services

Phantastes Chapter 1: Alastor; or, The Spirit of Solitude

A quest poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) published in 1816. The full title is “Alastor: or, the Spirit of Solitude.” MacDonald quotes lines 484-488 in which the Poet encounters his soulmate. Shelley’s poem is a major influence on Phantastes, and Shelley’s Preface to “Alastor” offers a nice gloss on MacDonald’s fantasy. “The poem entitled ‘Alastor’ may be considered as allegorical of one of the most interesting situations of the human mind. It represents a youth of uncorrupted feelings and adventurous genius led forth by an imagination inflamed and purified through familiarity with all that is excellent and majestic, to the contemplation of the universe. He drinks deep of the fountains of knowledge, and is still insatiate. The magnificence and beauty of the external world sinks profoundly into the frame of his conceptions, and affords to their modifications a variety not to be exhausted. So long as it is possible for his desires to point towards objects thus infinite and unmeasured, he is joyous, and tranquil, and self-possessed. But the period arrives when these objects cease to suffice. His mind is at length suddenly awakened and thirsts for intercourse with an intelligence similar to itself. He images to himself the Being whom he loves. Conversant with speculations of the sublimest and most perfect natures, the vision in which he embodies his own imaginations unites all of wonderful, or wise, or beautiful, which the poet, the philosopher, or the lover could depicture.

How Medicaid and Other Public Policies Affect Use of Tobacco Cessation Therapy, United States, 2010-2014.

INTRODUCTION: State Medicaid programs can cover tobacco cessation therapies for millions of low-income smokers in the United States, but use of this benefit is low and varies widely by state. This article assesses the effects of changes in Medicaid benefit policies, general tobacco policies, smoking norms, and public health programs on the use of cessation therapy among Medicaid smokers. METHODS: We used longitudinal panel analysis, using 2-way fixed effects models, to examine the effects of changes in state policies and characteristics on state-level use of Medicaid tobacco cessation medications from 2010 through 2014. RESULTS: Medicaid policies that require patients to obtain counseling to get medications reduced the use of cessation medications by approximately one-quarter to one-third; states that cover all types of cessation medications increased usage by approximately one-quarter to one-third. Non-Medicaid policies did not have significant effects on use levels. CONCLUSIONS: States could increase efforts to quit by developing more comprehensive coverage and reducing barriers to coverage. Reductions in barriers could bolster smoking cessation rates, and the costs would be small compared with the costs of treating smoking-related diseases. Innovative initiatives to help smokers quit could improve health and reduce health care costs