Supporting Schools

Cogito will deliver programmes for schools on Careers, Employability and Enterprise.

Careers and Employability

Currently working in partnership with Inspire Education.

Cogito is working in partnership with InspireEducation to deliver a range of programmes to establish and help raise the aspirations and develop the employability skills of young people.

The InspireEducation programmes have been created for educators with the following objectives:-

Achieve academic excellence
Motivating students to achieve results
Reduce the number of NEET
Inspire students to independently manage their futures
Delivering excellent quality impartial advice and guidance

All programmes are delivered in 2.5 hour sessions to up to 100 students by an accredited licensee. The Employability Skills training programme is also available as a combined 12 hour workshop delivered in 6 x 2 hour sessions to 30 pupils at a time giving a more in-depth and personalised service.

Commitment to Quality

Inspire Education and Cogito are associate members of the Institute of Business Excellence in Education (IEBE) a professional body dedicated to improving the employability and life chances of young people.

Cogito holds the Licensee agreement for South West London.

Cogito works with InspireEducation to deliver programmes which meet schools statutory responsibility for the provision of Careers Guidance. Our programmes have been written in collaboration with employers and are inspiring and accurate about the world of work, encouraging students to manage their own careers and learning pathways. Inspire Education are currently working to secure the Matrix Standard.enterprise 360 logo

Enterprise 360

The Enterprise 360 programme is intended to promote enterprise across the education sector, and has been successfully demonstrated at all levels of education in London, encouraging children and young people to engage in an entrepreneurial mindset and set the seeds of future business creation.

Even at these tender years actual business enterprises have been created. Children have set up their own sustainable tuck shops or run their own stall at school fairs.

With older students at FE Enterprise 360 has already led to some real business initiatives – see the Young Stars project

Key Points from Statutory Careers Guidance for Schools

Schools must secure independent (defined as 'external to the school'), impartial (defined as 'showing no bias or favouritism towards a particular education or work option') careers guidance for all of its pupils in years 9-11.

This refers to services and activities, intended to assist individuals of any age and to make education, training and occupational choices and to manage their careers.

Schools can combine face-to-face service with group/class careers education programmes.

Schools are recommended to ensure the provider has, or is working to, the Matrix Standard. 
 

Two useful resources for young people wanting to find out more about apprenticeships:

 

 

We deliver the following:

Employability Workshop
Goal Setting
CV Writing
Interview Coaching
Employable You
Programme Overview with Costs


 

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And to complement our work with INSPIRE Cogito launched Enterprise360 for schools in December 2011

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Statutory Guidance for Schools – Careers Guidance

...the wait is over.

The Department for Education issued its guidance for schools yesterday, in relation to the delivery of Careers Education.

The full guidance can be found here


Skills and Attributes 

What are the skills and attributes that employers want from young people? Take part in our consultation on some new employability and career development qualifications which are curently in development for Level 3 (Sixth form/FE/undergrad students) Mapped to recent research on what employers are looking for and evidenced by skills development activity, and supported by delivery of Inspireprogrammes 

Resources

Cogito is developing a number of resources that will be available to support learning providers in delivering provision in areas such as Enterprise and Employability.

Coming soon the Youth Employability Skills (YES) Passport