Total votes
5-11 votes
11-16+ votes
To mark National Careers Week in March, we asked young people to consider how prepared they feel for the future and whether they believe schools should dedicate more learning time to understanding different career pathways. Our youngest voters, aged 5-7, discussed whether they need to learn about a wide range of jobs in school, while 7-11-year olds explored career role models and whether there is a benefit to having more. Meanwhile, voters aged 11+ discussed employers and whether they should be obligated to work with schools to help prepare young people for the realities of employment. We also held Student Webinars, where schools from across the country joined to discuss questions posed by our VotesforSchools Youth Ambassadors on the topic of careers-based education.
Primary 5-7 pupils were asked, “Do you want to learn more about different jobs?”, while Primary 7-11 pupils discussed, “Do we need more career role models?” and Secondary, 16+ & College students considered, “Should employers have to work with schools?”.
49,243 young people voted on this VoteTopic.
I think there should be more career role models as we need more information about new careers. It gives us options and it gives us a back-up plan in life.
If employers worked directly with schools, it would give students the chance to look at the world of employment in a more realistic way.
We think it is important to hear from as many employers as possible to inspire us [but] we don't think that they should be forced to [...] if they don't want to or if it will impact their ability to run their business.
