At Fountain Head House School we believe that high quality careers education and personalised guidance is critical to our young people’s futures. It helps to prepare them for the workplace by providing a clear understanding of the world of work, including the routes to careers and specific job roles that they aspire to, and find both engaging and rewarding. It supports our pupils to acquire the personal self-development and work/career management skills they need to achieve a positive employment destination. This, in turn helps our pupils to make an informed choice of career pathway, improve their life experience opportunities and contribute to a productive and successful economy.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​
CAREERS
CAREERS THROUGH ALL STAGES OF EDUCATION
​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Our Careers Education Programme is designed to build upon previous knowledge through activities that are appropriate to the pupil’s stages of career learning, planning and development. Careers Education is very much intended as work related learning and work element of Preparing for Adulthood. We use EHCP reviews to track individual’s aspirations, as well as outcomes from activities and interviews supported independently by Careers Plymouth and Careers Cornwall.
LOCAL JOB MARKET INFORMATION AND DATA
The South West
As we know the South West economy has traditionally been associated with mining, but today it is diversified with significant opportunities in renewable innovation, space and aerospace, creative technology, food and drink, agritech, healthtech, and digital sectors. Both Cornwall and Devon’s economy shows the largest industries as being wholesale and the retail trade, repair of motor vehicles and motorcycles, accommodation and food service activities, education, human health and social work activities. These industries represent up to 10% of the total jobs.
Good news is that Devon’s unemployment rate of 1.2% is 2.7% lower than the unemployment rate for England which is 3.9%. Cornwall’s unemployment rate is 2.5% which is 1.4% lower than the unemployment rate for England.
Qualifications, jobs, salaries.
The Annual Population Survey for 2022 published by the ONS reports the percentage of the Cornwall working-age (aged 16 – 64) population who have a degree or higher is 39.1%, which is below the 43.2% degree qualification rate for England. Over 57% of the Cornwall working-age population have at least 2 A-Levels (or equivalent), and 6% have no qualifications.
The Annual Population Survey for 2022 published by the ONS reports the percentage of the Devon working-age (aged 16 – 64) population who have a degree or higher is 36.4%, which is below the 43.2% degree qualification rate for England. Over 62% of the Cornwall working-age population have at least 2 A-Levels (or equivalent), and 6% have no qualifications.
