How can Push help teachers & Careers Advisors?
If you're interested in a Push session for the schools, colleges or universities that you work in, why not explore our range of sessions here? We believe in a blended approach to IAG (information, advice and guidance); we never want to replace what you do, simply enhance it and to fill in any gaps in provision you may feel there is.
Push sessions empower young people to research well-informed choices that are right for them, and we believe the best form of guidance is self-guidance. For example, many careers advisors express that kickstarting their programme of activities with an inspiring Push session to a whole year group can make the one-on-one guidance sessions more effective. Students feel relaxed, excited, and more informed on what they want from life and the range of things they might need to develop to get them.
Click here to book or enquire about how we can support your students.
Push sessions empower young people to research well-informed choices that are right for them, and we believe the best form of guidance is self-guidance. For example, many careers advisors express that kickstarting their programme of activities with an inspiring Push session to a whole year group can make the one-on-one guidance sessions more effective. Students feel relaxed, excited, and more informed on what they want from life and the range of things they might need to develop to get them.
Click here to book or enquire about how we can support your students.
Gatsby benchmarks
The Gatsby Benchmarks are part of a national strategy to deliver more effective (and cohesive) careers provision to young people in schools and colleges. The framework has 8 guidelines, which we've outlined (and how Push helps you meet them) so you can know that booking a Push session is helping you hit this checklist!
embedding employabilty into the curriculum
How do we embed employability into the curriculum with a common language that engages and excites young people?
That is the question Push founder and chairman Johnny Rich explores in this 20 minute talk at The University of Greenwich, to an audience of academics, WP & outreach staff. Employability skills can be a droll subject to the uninitiated (or even the initiated who talk about it regularly), and it is more often than not confused with employment skills (the traits needed to apply for and successfully get a job).
That is the question Push founder and chairman Johnny Rich explores in this 20 minute talk at The University of Greenwich, to an audience of academics, WP & outreach staff. Employability skills can be a droll subject to the uninitiated (or even the initiated who talk about it regularly), and it is more often than not confused with employment skills (the traits needed to apply for and successfully get a job).
Folks don't often associate the word 'joy' with employability, but that is precisely what Johnny is here to explain in this insightful (and funny) guide to the topic. Johnny draws on research (including his own) to back up his and Push's theory on how to develop a straight-talking language around employability for young people.
This can be relayed across the curriculum in a way that not only helps them understand what employers want, but crucially gets them excited about developing it. This is done by starting with the individual and one's uniqueness, and getting students thinking deeply about what they want from life.
This can be relayed across the curriculum in a way that not only helps them understand what employers want, but crucially gets them excited about developing it. This is done by starting with the individual and one's uniqueness, and getting students thinking deeply about what they want from life.
Improving the quality and reach of iag
Through our inspirational sessions, we inform and advise students on the options available to them and how they can go about achieving their goals. They leave us fired up and ready to engage with the school’s career service for individual guidance.
Founder and Chief Executive Johnny Rich, summarises how Push supports school careers programmes through the IAG model (information, advice, guidance).
“The distinction between the three is interesting and important. Information, I would argue, is facts – data and statistics, indisputable details. Advice, meanwhile, happens whenever an opinion creeps into the delivery of information. And if it's well-informed opinion, it's expert advice. However advice doesn't relate personally to the individual getting it. That would be when it becomes guidance – where information and advice is bent to the individual circumstances of the person who needs it. Guidance is a skilled practice, best done by professionals who take the lives and futures of people into their charge and, if they do their job well, set them on a brighter path." Want to hear more?
Founder and Chief Executive Johnny Rich, summarises how Push supports school careers programmes through the IAG model (information, advice, guidance).
“The distinction between the three is interesting and important. Information, I would argue, is facts – data and statistics, indisputable details. Advice, meanwhile, happens whenever an opinion creeps into the delivery of information. And if it's well-informed opinion, it's expert advice. However advice doesn't relate personally to the individual getting it. That would be when it becomes guidance – where information and advice is bent to the individual circumstances of the person who needs it. Guidance is a skilled practice, best done by professionals who take the lives and futures of people into their charge and, if they do their job well, set them on a brighter path." Want to hear more?
WONKHE articles by johnny rich
Our CEO Johnny Rich regularly writes articles on higher education for WONKHE, including winning the 'Best Writing on Higher Education' award at WonkFest 2019 for his inspiring piece 'Values, Not Value'.
These can offer great insights and points of relevance when presenting on higher education, choices and careers to school, college and higher education students:
These can offer great insights and points of relevance when presenting on higher education, choices and careers to school, college and higher education students:
hepi articles by johnny rich
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Push are passionate about getting students, HEIs, teachers and outreach teams to change their way of thinking towards employability skills instead of the all-too-often misplaced focus on employment skills. Our founder and Chief Executive Johnny Rich is a though-leader in the world of higher education. HEPI publishes his thoughts and commissions papers regularly as part of the HEPI series of polemical Occasional Papers:
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