Futuretrack: pre-entry, information, advice & guidance Jane Artess Director of Research Higher Education Careers Services Unit June 10th 2009.

Futuretrack: pre-entry, information, advice & guidance

Jane Artess

Director of Research

Higher Education Careers Services Unit

June 10th 2009

Futuretrack

• Four stage longitudinal tracking study of career development of the 2006 cohort of entrants to HE

• Funded by HECSU and undertaken by the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick, led by Professor Kate Purcell.(see also www.futuretrack.ac.uk)

HECSU• Commissions and undertakes research into

student/graduate career development and decision-making

• Supports university careers advisory services

• Aims to put research outcomes into practice(see also, HECSU Development Plan 2008 – 2015

at www.hecsu.ac.uk)

Session outline

– Getting into HE

– Support and guidance to get into HE

– Who studies what?

– Career planning

– Changing

– Discussion

Type of HEI of accepted applicants,by type of prior education

Support and guidance – not enough information on ..

0

10

20

30

40

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60

State School Single-sexschool

Fee-payingschool

State School Single-sexschool

Fee-payingschool

Males Females

Relation between courses an employment options Information about courses available

Not enough information about the implications of post-16 subject choices, comparing selected school students’ response by

gender

0

5

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25

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40

State School Single-sexschool

Fee-payingschool

State School Single-sexschool

Fee-payingschool

Males Females

Not enough None

Who studies what?% Female % Asian % Black % 25+

% ‘professional managerial background

ALL 2006 accepted UK applicants

55.4 9.6 5 11.8 41.3

Pre-clinical Medicine 57.5 18.5 2.7 16.3 58.2

Pharmacy etc 57.3 42.7 13.2 13.3 35.6

Nursing 90.5 2.9 6.1 42.2 25.7

Physics 19.4 5.3 1.5 2.9 57.8

Mathematics 43.5 14.8 2.1 2.9 48.9

Computer Science 12.1 15.0 6.1 9.3 34.1

Mechanical Engineering

6.7 10.4 4.6 5.5 44.9

Economics 29.0 22.8 6.5 1.5 51.9

Sociology 74.7 8.2 6.2 13.6 37.1

Media Studies 48.8 5.3 4.4 4.8 37.5

History by period 45.5 2.6 0.6 7.2 52.4

Design Studies 62.1 6.1 3.2 9.4 36.6

Languages 71.3 3 2 6.8 52.2

I am worried about the prospect of having to repay loans and debts when I have completed my course

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Asian Bangladeshi

Asian Chinese

Asian Indian

Other

Asian Pakistani

Black African

Black Caribbean

White

Strongly agree Strongly disagree

I am worried about the prospect of having to repay loans and debts when I have completed my course

0%

10%

20%

30%

40%

50%

60%

70%

80%

90%

100%

Managerial and ProfessionalOccupations

Intermediate Occupations Routine and manualOccupations

Strongly agree Strongly disagree (

Clarity of Career plans – by subject at application

0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100

Historical and philosophical studies

Languages

Linguistics and classics

Physical sciences

Social science/arts

Maths and computing

Mass communication and documentation

Other interdisciplinary

Business and Admin.

Social studies

Biology, Vet and Agricultural related

Science/social science

Creative art and design

Engineering and technology

Law

Architecture, building, planning

Subjects allied to medicine

Education

Medicine & Related

% scoring 6 or 7 on career plans

% scoring 1 or 2 on career plans

…and one year later

…changing ideas about career after 1 year in HE

0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30%

Clear idea

2

3

4

5

6

No idea

Now registered as ft student on the course started in Autumn 2006Now registered as ft student on different courseNot currently registered as ft HE student

Reasons for changing course

Discussion

• what do these findings mean for practice?

Thank you

Contact details

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0161 277 5208