Weighing up the future?
What Job then!!!!
EMPLOYMENT SECTORS
Explore job sectors: Essential information on the current state of the
sectors listed and advice on breaking into them.
Advertising and PR
City markets
Cultural
Engineering
Fashion and textile
Food and drink
Higher education
Information technology
Local, regional,national government
Oil, gas and petroleum
Publishing
Science
SMEs
Tourism
Voluntary sector
Broadcast, film, video/interactive media
Construction
Education
Environmental, food chain and rural
Financial services
Health sector
Hospitality
Legal services
Manufacturing
Professional financial, accounting services
Retail
Social care
Sport and leisure
Transport
WORKING UNTIL 65……………………………
POTENTIAL LIFETIME EARNINGS
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At 16+ ……………GCSE…………………£783,964.00
At 18+…………….A LEVEL………….£1,000,000.00
At 21+…………….Graduate………..£1,600,000.00
The bigger picture?
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We get you to UNIVERSITY.
University prepares you for work.
You may need a second degree to work.
4-Year 1st Degree ‘doubles’ employment opportunity.
Post-Grad’ Russell Group earnings v other universities
now insignificant!
Curriculum 2000
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AS coupled to A2.
Resits/Mid-sessional modules.
Drop subjects post AS.
Grades inflation.
Multiple GCSE’s etc.
BBC>>>>AAB to access good
universities 2000>>>2014
A*, LNAT, BMAT usage.
Number caps.
‘Tears at the top!”
UCAS applications down?
Fees/Finance issues post-2010
Raising of grade boundaries
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2011 UCAS: 700,161 applicants.
2012 UCAS: 653,000 applicants
2011 UCAS: 492,030 accepted.
2012 UCAS: 464,000 accepted.
Medicine 2012: 83,184 app’s.
Medicine 2012: 7,798 accepted.
Law 2012: 98,507 applications.
Law 2012: 17,953 accepted.
Curriculum Review 2014-2020
Impact on KEFW/students…..
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Decoupling AS.
2015 removal of numbers
capping, >ABB.
Core-number
protection..<BBC
Linear courses to terminal
exams.
Grades deflation?
Russell/1994 groups can’t
fill courses.
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Universities react?
Prediction of grades.
AAA…AAB…ABB..BBC
Unconditional offers.
Offers or Targets?
Falling numbers meeting
offers.
Less caution in choice
planning.
Candidate negotiations.
Increased ‘clearing’
activity.
Great News for the Sixth Form
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Increasing numbers of applicants from BTEC/NVQ
backgrounds will open up places for KEFW Sixth
Formers above the core-groups.
109 Universities cleared 34,000 last August, and
many from Russell Group!
Universities will use offers as targets when seeking
undergraduates who can demonstrate continuing
academic progress from Yr.11……….
RAISING AWARENESS
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Futures Office/Chowen Library.
Interviews: Use the referral system /MFAP.
University open days/visits.
Internet.
1. Prospects.ac.uk/
2. UCAS.COM
3. www.astarfuture.com
4. Gradplus.com
5. Russell Group website
6. Apprenticeships.org
1. D.Telegraph clearing list.
Newspapers.
And there’s plenty more.
Plenty of information sources
“Hot Course” Listings; Many
students will continue to require on-going
assistance and guidance.
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Medicine
Dentistry
Veterinary
Science
Law
OXB
LSE/IMP/UCL
ISSUES TO CONSIDER
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Grade requirements for courses.
Resitting modules/subjects.
Quality of personal statement.
Spread of UNI choices for CF and CI
Need to re-apply.
Don’t apply at all.
490,000 places…700,000 candidates.
Staying local, staying UK, trying abroad.
Finance.
Mixing courses.
Oxbridge, 1994 and the Russell Groups.
School reference…………..
UCAS 2015
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Yr. 10/11 clinics for ‘hot courses’.
Autumn target new students to KEFW.
Cohort presentations L6 February 2014.
Interviewing start; 5 March for Medics, Law, Dentists, Vets,
and Oxbridge Candidates.
Rest to follow
135 students interviewed so far. Times always available???????
Draft personal statements to tutors by………
Hot course applications to school by Sept…..? Others by
October…..?
Final UCAS application by January…..?
Applicants ‘go firm’ by May…..?
Student loan applications by May….?
WHAT’S WRONG?
I’VE HAD 5
REJECTIONS
Barber
Institute
of
Fine Art
BUT YOU ARE
SO CLEVER
It’s the
personal
statement