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Careers provision in HE not good enough?

A new DIUS report claims that information, advice and guidance for undergraduates in England is not good enough.

The report, Higher Education at Work - High Skills: High Value, sets out the English government's aims to increase the number of people with high-level skills in order to increase the country's productivity and competitiveness.

It also covers issues in relation to the need for good guidance and refers briefly to the new proposed Adult Advancement Careers Service, as well as the inadequacy of IAG available for young people making choices at 14, for potential university students.

It also states that IAG for undergraduates is not good enough, based on the results of the student juries set up by DIUS to capture the student voice.

Download Higher Education at Work - High Skills: High Value report from the DIUS website.

Consultation on the report ends 7 July 2008. The draft AGCAS response is below this article. Please send comments to Margaret Dane, AGCAS CEO, as soon as possible.

If you are an AGCAS member and signed into this site, you can also post your comments about the report below for other AGCAS members to read.

You can see more AGCAS responses in the Responses to Consultations area of this website.