Effective Career
Education
STAR
CPaBL
Youth Guarantee
Youth Apprenticeships
Gateway
Career education is delivered most effectively when school systems
and structures support highly motivated and competent
teachers. The career education programme needs to be planned
so that it meets the particular needs of students at each stage of
their personal and cognitive development.
Career education is effective when it:
* is taught by teachers who establish positive
relationships with students;
* is part of a whole-school, planned programme
across all year levels;
* makes explicit links with previous career
education so that students are reminded of
earlier learning and
activities and can relate them to their current work;
* is integrated into curriculum areas where
appropriate, e.g. world of work in social
studies, writing a CV or job
application in English, developing self-knowledge in health;
* is linked with pastoral care systems;
* develops students' understanding of their
strengths, interests and values;
* shows the relevance of specific subjects to
careers;
* makes curriculum and qualification pathways
clear to students;
* provides students with the skills to find,
understand and use information about a range
of careers;
* develops students' ability to set goals and
plan to achieve them;
* empowers students to develop independence in
strategies for job searching and
decision making;
* is staffed by teachers who are committed to
teaching career education; and
involves a team to support the
careers adviser.
Thanks to Saskia Osborne, STAR Advisor, School of Education,
Waikato University
STAR
Review of STAR Web pages by Ian McDonald, Senior Advisor,
Pathways and Careers, Ministry of Education
The Ministry has reviewed and updated the web content known as Secondary Tertiary Alignment Resource
(STAR) guidelines. These guidelines are for secondary
schools that manage and administer STAR funding.
The STAR policy has not changed. We've reviewed the way the
information is displayed to make it easier for you to find what
you're looking for. The information is also more in line with the
Government's web accessibility and usability standards. This was
necessary because the original material was developed as a print
resource.
From the STAR webpages, you can now:
* go directly to the Funding, Staffing
and Allowances Handbook for funding information
* download the templates from the landing
page
* send us your queries and feedback using a
contact email address.
Feel free to email STARcontact@minedu.govt.nz with your STAR
comments or queries. This way we can continually improve this
information for you.
Key messages about STAR
* STAR funding is provided for a specific
purpose, and should be used for that purpose
alone.
* STAR funding goes into the school's
operational grant, where it is tagged for the
purposes of STAR.
* STAR is shown on the Entitlement Notice as a
separate line item.
* STAR is not a supplementary grant and never
has been.
Ian Macdonald
Senior Advisor -
Pathways/Careers
Secondary Outcomes Team
Ministry of Education
Level 1, St Pauls Square
PO Box 1666, Thorndon Wellington
6011
DDI: 04 463 8049M: 027 232
5882
A webpage featuring information from the letter and good practice
for STAR can be accessed through the following here.
If you have any queries regarding STAR you can contact your local
School Support Services Advisor.
Other Information on STAR webpage
This links directly to the many supporting documents
including:
1. The list of domains that are excluded from STAR
funding. The STAR Exclusion List (SEL)
2. STAR Update
3. An example of a Memorandum of Agreement for
schools to use when working with an
external provider of STAR
courses
4. The STAR handbook- A guide to the Secondary
Tertiary Alignment Resource (STAR)
5. The STAR Funding Report Form. This the current
version for school completion on an
annual basis
6. This list of Frequently Asked Questions which
provides a range of information relating
to the use of STAR
funding.
7. STAR policy. A number of templates for schools to
use when developing or reviewing
their STAR policy and
procedures
8. STAR Course Evaluation. A number of templates for
course evaluation
9. STAR Coordinator Position Description-a
sample
10. STAR in-school funding request form-an example
11. STAR Self Review-a process.
Star Aviation e-learning courses
Caitlins Area School is offering Level 2 Aviation units -
delivered via e-learning. Check the 2 programmes - STAR Aviation
and STAR & Gateway One Term Course.
CPaBL
Creating Pathways and Building Lives (CPaBL), was an initiative
for building a school-wide approach to career education, which took
place in 100 secondary schools nationwide during the 2007 and 2008
school years. Based on evidence from the successful Designing
Careers pilot, the aim of CPaBL was to embed sustainable systems
and practices that allow effective careers advice to occur, via a
whole-school approach.
ERO report on CPaBL
The Creating Pathways and Building Lives (CPaBL) project is now
complete and ERO have completed the final report, which is in two
parts:
Evaluation of the CPaBL Initiative; 2006-2008 (February 2009);
and
CPaBL in Action (January 2009).
The first report is aimed at central agencies, while the second
report is directed towards schools. The report can be downloaded
from the ministry webpage here
(Thanks to Jocelyn Anton, Senior Advisor, Secondary Outcomes,
Curriculum, Teaching & Learning - Design, Ministry of
Education)
Links to the Ministry website re CPABL
CPaBL Baseline Data
Analysis
An overview in terms of baseline information and the current
provisions of career education in the 100 CPaBL schools
Report on the Implementation of
CPaBL
This summary report gives a current understanding of the
implementation of CPaBL and identifies criteria which enhance
success for schools
CPaBL - Criteria for
choosing schools
CPaBL - Data Information Profile
This questionnaire was designed for CPaBL but may be used by any
secondary school as a starting point for improving the provision of
career education
CPaBL - FAQs/schools
CPaBL - General Briefing -
PowerPoint
CPaBL - List of 100 schools
involved
CPaBL - Student Outcomes
Youth
Guarantee
The Youth Guarantee is a new tertiary education initiative
announced as part of Budget 2009.
Youth Guarantee focusses on improving the educational achievements
of targeted 16 and 17 year olds by providing them with an
opportunity to participate in a range of vocational courses free of
charge.
Programme objectives
The objectives of the Youth Guarantee initiative are to:
* increase the educational achievement of
targeted 16 and 17 year olds not currently
engaged in education by
providing them with improved access to study towards
qualifications at levels 1 to
3 on the National Qualifications Framework (NQF) in tertiary
education
* improve transitions between school, tertiary
education and work.
Background information
The TEC has provided some further background information for
organisations about Youth Guarantee including frequently asked questions about the
implementation of Youth Guarantee.
Learner eligibility
The target group for the Youth Guarantee initiative is students
aged 16 and 17, who have achieved NCEA Level 1 or less and for whom
a vocational pathway would be a preferred choice.
It is expected that demand may exceed the number of places that
can be funded in 2010. Youth Guarantee providers will need to
apply the following criteria to determine student
eligibility:
* Age: students must not turn 18 years of age
within three months of starting study
under the Youth Guarantee
* School level: students must have completed
Year 11 and be ready to move beyond
school
* New students: students must be new to
tertiary education i.e. not previously or
currently enrolled in a
Student Achievement Component (SAC) funded course
* Full time: students must be enrolled
full-time
* Full year: students must enrol in a minimum
of a full year?s worth of study (the
equivalent of 0.8
EFTS).
Students enrolled in Youth Guarantee will not be eligible for
Student Loans administered by StudyLink. Providers will be
responsible for ensuring their enrolled Youth Guarantee students
are not claiming any type of Student Loan through StudyLink.
Provider eligibility
To be eligible to provide Youth Guarantee, tertiary education
organisations (TEOs) must:
* already deliver Student Achievement Component
(SAC) funded courses
* have a track record for delivering NQF Level
1 to 3 courses targeted at youth that lead
to successful outcomes e.g. numbers
of students that achieve positive outcomes are
above the national average (either
successful course completions or retention) or
demonstrate its capability to
deliver to this age group
* have pastoral care capability, including
delivery in culturally appropriate contexts
* have developed the capability to deliver
embedded literacy, language and numeracy
and can deliver such courses
(or have a credible plan to do so during 2010) to Youth
Guarantee recipients
* have capacity to deliver extra EFTS or can
scale up for 2010
* demonstrate capability in catering to the
needs of Māori and Pacific students
* be able to provide students, through the
course content, knowledge and information on
pathways into higher level
qualifications and vocational training
* be prepared to submit manual reports to the
TEC at regular intervals.
Process for provider selection
The Youth Guarantee is open to institutes of technology and
polytechnics, wānanga, private training establishments and other
tertiary education providers. However, as 2010 is the first
year of implementation, only selected organisations will be
approached by the TEC and invited to submit proposals.
Approximately 2,000 Youth Guarantee equivalent full-time students
(EFTS) are likely to be available for allocation in 2010 throughout
New Zealand.
Successful selection will be based on providers operating in areas
of high need (i.e. greatest number of youth unemployed), and how
well their proposal meets the programme?s objectives. Funding
decisions will be made as part of the Investment Plan
process.
Delivery model
A Youth Guarantee programme will consist of courses that meet the
objectives of the initiative and are suitable to the target
group.
The courses offered as part of the Youth Guarantee must be
vocationally focussed, with clear pathways into higher levels of
training integrated into the course content. The courses do not
need to be restricted to Youth Guarantee students.
Courses offered through Youth Guarantee must:
* be linked to Levels 1-3 qualifications
registered on the NQF
* have embedded literacy, language and numeracy
in the course content (or have a
credible plan to do so during
2010)
* provide students with knowledge and
information on vocational pathways
* contain a mix of practical, specific and
generic skill development
* be delivered face-to-face (i.e. not distance
learning)
* not be a direct substitute for school-based
learning.
The TEC expects to invest in a range of vocational courses for
Youth Guarantee students. Preference will be given to the
following New Zealand Standard Classification of Education (NZSCED)
classifications:
* Engineering and Technology
* Business, Accountancy, Office
Systems/Secretarial, Management
* Agriculture and Horticulture
* Trades 2.
This does not exclude providers offering programmes within other
course categories, but they would need to clearly demonstrate to
the TEC that the courses have clear vocational links and
progression into higher level qualifications.
Funding
For every Youth Guarantee student enrolled in an identified Youth
Guarantee course, the provider will be paid a Youth Guarantee
Payment of $4,500, in addition to their SAC and TEO Component
funding, to cover student fees and pastoral care
arrangements. Courses must be provided free of charge to
Youth Guarantee enrolled students.
$4,500 is no higher than the relevant Fee Course Cost Maxima
(FCCM), and will be paid to providers as part of the monthly SAC
allocation. SAC funding will be subject to a ?wash up? at the
end of the year for under-delivery below 97%.
Youth Guarantee students enrolled in courses with embedded
literacy and numeracy will not incur the additional SAC ?top up?
payment for certificate levels 1-3 courses.
Pastoral Care
The Youth Guarantee Payment includes provision for pastoral care
services for Youth Guarantee students. Pastoral care may
include a range of services tailored towards the needs, including
cultural, of the individual student. This may include:
providing career planning and advice, learning support,
extra-curricular activities, an orientation programme, regular form
classes or counselling.
Performance
monitoring
The TEC expects a high level of performance from Youth Guarantee
courses. This would include a similar or higher level of
achievement by Youth Guarantee students compared to other students
enrolled in the same course.
Fund requirements will be in place to measure the performance of
Youth
* Retention: providers will report on how many
Youth Guarantee students complete their enrolled courses
* Successful completions: providers will report
on how many Youth Guarantee students successfully complete their
enrolled courses
* Progression: providers will report on how
many Youth Guarantee students progress into further education or
training or employment
* Literacy Language and Numeracy: providers
will report the extent to which Youth Guarantee students improve
their literacy and numeracy skills as measured against the Adult
Literacy and Numeracy Learning Progressions.
Upon expansion of the programme beyond 2010, the TEC would expect
providers to set key performance indicators within their Investment
Plans based on the measures above.
Dependent on the availability of funding, additional providers
will be eligible to offer Youth Guarantee as the programme expands.
Performance in meeting the programme's objectives will be
considered in determining any future allocations.
Reporting
The TEC intends to monitor Youth Guarantee students using the
Single Data Return (SDR) system. Providers will need to
identify these students in their SDR returns using the new code
provided for this purpose in the "Source of Funding" field.
Providers may also need to provide some additional manual
reporting against fund requirements. A template and timeline
for this reporting will be provided at a later date if
required.
Providers are responsible for ensuring their enrolled Youth
Guarantee students are not claiming any type of Student Loan
through StudyLink and will be required to check this.
Administration
The Youth Guarantee delivery and administration will form part of
a provider's Investment Plan. Successful providers will be
allocated a number of EFTS that will be itemised in their Mix of
Provision section of the Investment Plan.
Those providers with Investment Plans already in place for 2010
will receive notification of the additional funding in a
confirmation letter as soon as practical.
* Youth Guarantee information released on
website - early August
* Selected TEOs invited to submit proposals -
early August
* Proposals submitted to the TEC - 28
August
* TEC assesses proposals - September
* Indicative allocations advised to TEOs -
September
* Board of Commissioners approves allocations -
November
* Notification letters sent - November
* Youth Guarantee commences - January 2010
Youth
Apprenticeships
The Youth Apprenticeships Scheme started as a pilot with 10
schools at the end of 2007 and by February 2008 20 lead schools
were involved.
The scheme was not progressed to full funding, although some
schools continued to provide this option for their students using
their operational grant and Gateway funding.
In 2009 Government introduced a number of initiatives which
supported Youth Guarantee for free education for 16 and 17 year
olds in schools, tertiary or workplace settings.
There are likely to be more initiatives in future for this group
and schools are encouraged to visit the Youth Guarantee factsheet
to keep up-to-date with changes in this area.
Archived information provides
useful material and case studies about Youth Apprenticeships.
Gateway
Gateway is available to state and integrated secondary schools,
and supports senior secondary students (Year 11 to Year 13+)
undertaking structured workplace learning across a range of
industries and businesses around New Zealand, while continuing to
study at school.
Gateway delivery involves arranging structured workplace
learning with the following characteristics:
- a formalised learning arrangement set in the workplace
- clear understandings about the knowledge and skills to be
attained by learners
- clear understandings about the assessment method used
(workplace learning).
More information on Gateway is available
here
