National Careers Week is an annual celebration of careers guidance and free resources in education across the UK. The aim is to provide a focus for careers guidance activity at an important stage in the academic calendar to help support young people leaving education. This year's event is taking place from 7-12 March 2022.
Careers information, advice and guidance in schools and colleges plays a crucial role in ensuring that students are well informed about all their options. The Oxfordshire Apprenticeship Awards recognises this through the Careers Champion Award. This is a new category for 2022, which recognises careers colleagues in local secondary schools and colleges who make a significant contribution to promoting apprenticeships to students and their parents/guardians as part of a wide ranging and inclusive careers programme.
The award is kindly sponsored by The Engineering Trust, a registered charity set up in 1983 by a group of engineering employers based in Oxfordshire with the goal of promoting careers in engineering and manufacturing.
This #NCW2022, we would like to congratulate the following people, who have entered, or been nominated for, the Oxfordshire Apprenticeship Awards 2022 Careers Champion Award in recognition of their fantastic work:
- Claire Christiansen, Larkmead School
- Natalie Dayer, Frank Wise School
- Stuart George, Ridgeway Education Trust – Didcot Girls’ School and Didcot 6th Form
- Helen Haines, Burford School
- Sue Lea, UTC Oxfordshire
- Jackie Mustoe, Carterton Community College
- Debbie Nicholas, The Iffley Academy
- Lindsay Powell, Europa School UK
- Michael Rafferty, The Warriner School
Judging is currently being carried out by the category sponsor - The Engineering Trust - and the three finalists will be announced during Oxfordshire Apprenticeships Hour (hashtag #OAHour) on Twitter @OxonApprentice from 13:00 on 14 April. The winner will be revealed at a special live broadcast on 19 May from 19:00. Follow #OAAwards2022 on social media for all the latest on the awards.
Through our partnership with the Careers & Enterprise Company (CEC), we help young people to better understand the modern workplace and develop the skills and attributes they need to compete in today’s labour market. This work is led through two programmes, the Enterprise Adviser Network (EAN) and the Careers Hub.
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Find out more about the Oxfordshire Apprenticeship Awards 2022
