Introducing Inspire

28 September 11 News Articles

CASCAiD, in partnership with the Inspiring Futures Foundation, is delighted to introduce Inspire, a new concept in careers guidance for schools.

Inspire will inform, motivate and challenge young people to raise achievement and unlock their full potential using a blend of careers guidance tools and professional adviser-led school activities.

What is Inspire?

Inspire is a new approach to raising young people’s aspirations and achievement by delivering high quality, impartial careers guidance in schools and colleges.

Inspire uses a unique blend of interactive online tools and specially designed school activities, delivered by highly experienced careers advisers.

Inspire will:

• Raise students’ aspirations by showing them what they can achieve if they aim higher
• Improve student achievement and their school’s success rates
• Give access to impartial guidance and expertise for students making career decisions
• Offer an exciting and instructive way for each student to enhance their employability skills
• Provide a versatile approach to differing school and student needs
• Support social mobility and widening participation

Inspire is a vital investment for schools and colleges to support the new statutory duties for careers guidance as outlined in the Education Bill.

The Bill states that schools will be required to, “secure access to independent, impartial careers guidance for their pupils”.

It also emphasises that delivery should be provided by a source external to the school, stating, “guidance would have to be impartial.”

With the success of schools being evaluated by the new destination measure, Inspire provides a high quality and cost-effective way to enable all students to achieve their full potential, whether progressing into higher education or into successful careers.

Inspire is a partnership of two of the UK’s leading providers of careers guidance support solutions: CASCAiD Ltd and the Inspiring Futures Foundation.

What is Kudos Inspire?

Kudos Inspire is a key element of Inspire. It provides an interactive online tool which enables students to understand and explore the career and education options which they could aspire to if they aim to achieve higher-level qualifications.

Building on the well-established Kudos program, Kudos Inspire encourages students to explore the impact of raising their aspirations on their long-term career options.

It helps students make the right choices about what to study at A level/post-16 by linking subjects to careers.

It inspires students to consider university-level qualifications and supports them through the process of considering course options and applying to UCAS.

Kudos Inspire underpins the range of professional adviser-led activities available from Inspire.

Kudos Inspire is available both as a complete online tool and as an upgrade for existing Kudos subscribers.

What are Inspire services?

Inspire includes a range of interactive, professional adviser-led activities that are delivered in schools.

Inspire offers a menu of flexible activities for students from Year 9 to post-16, along with support for teachers and other school staff.

Inspire activities include:

• Challenges that provide structured full-day, whole-year group activities. As well as promoting teamwork skills, these Inspire challenges focus on delivering learning outcomes that help students prepare for transition to their next stage of education.
• Workshops delivered to individual classes covering single or double lesson periods. These workshops encourage students to understand themselves and what they are capable of, as well as motivating them to explore their future.
• Personalised future planning using Kudos Inspire. These sessions enable students to get the most out of using Kudos Inspire and ensure that they can clearly understand the benefits to them personally of raising their aspirations and achievement.
• Guidance interviews which use a combination of structured one-to-one advice sessions and drop-in clinics where students can discuss their plans and their transition to the next stage of education, and get practical advice to help them decide what to do next.
• Flexible CPD and Inset opportunities for teachers, tutors, heads of department and senior leadership teams to help embed the success of raising student aspirations and achievement throughout the school.
• Support for parents’ events to ensure that schools maximise the opportunity to engage parents in promoting the benefits of raising aspirations and achievement.
• The Inspire Helpline, which provides specialist telephone and email support from highly experienced guidance specialists who can answer queries on specific careers and education options.

To find out more about Inspire, please click here.