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Futuretrack: pre-entry, information, advice & guidance Jane Artess Director of Research Higher Education Careers Services Unit June 10th 2009
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Futuretrack: pre-entry, information, advice & guidance
Jane Artess
Director of Research
Higher Education Careers Services Unit
June 10th 2009
Futuretrack
• Four stage longitudinal tracking study of career development of the 2006 cohort of entrants to HE
• Funded by HECSU and undertaken by the Institute for Employment Research at the University of Warwick, led by Professor Kate Purcell.(see also www.futuretrack.ac.uk)
HECSU• Commissions and undertakes research into
student/graduate career development and decision-making
• Supports university careers advisory services
• Aims to put research outcomes into practice(see also, HECSU Development Plan 2008 – 2015
at www.hecsu.ac.uk)
Session outline
– Getting into HE
– Support and guidance to get into HE
– Who studies what?
– Career planning
– Changing
– Discussion
Type of HEI of accepted applicants,by type of prior education
Support and guidance – not enough information on ..
0
10
20
30
40
50
60
State School Single-sexschool
Fee-payingschool
State School Single-sexschool
Fee-payingschool
Males Females
Relation between courses an employment options Information about courses available
Not enough information about the implications of post-16 subject choices, comparing selected school students’ response by
gender
0
5
10
15
20
25
30
35
40
State School Single-sexschool
Fee-payingschool
State School Single-sexschool
Fee-payingschool
Males Females
Not enough None
Who studies what?% Female % Asian % Black % 25+
% ‘professional managerial background
ALL 2006 accepted UK applicants
55.4 9.6 5 11.8 41.3
Pre-clinical Medicine 57.5 18.5 2.7 16.3 58.2
Pharmacy etc 57.3 42.7 13.2 13.3 35.6
Nursing 90.5 2.9 6.1 42.2 25.7
Physics 19.4 5.3 1.5 2.9 57.8
Mathematics 43.5 14.8 2.1 2.9 48.9
Computer Science 12.1 15.0 6.1 9.3 34.1
Mechanical Engineering
6.7 10.4 4.6 5.5 44.9
Economics 29.0 22.8 6.5 1.5 51.9
Sociology 74.7 8.2 6.2 13.6 37.1
Media Studies 48.8 5.3 4.4 4.8 37.5
History by period 45.5 2.6 0.6 7.2 52.4
Design Studies 62.1 6.1 3.2 9.4 36.6
Languages 71.3 3 2 6.8 52.2
I am worried about the prospect of having to repay loans and debts when I have completed my course
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
Asian Bangladeshi
Asian Chinese
Asian Indian
Other
Asian Pakistani
Black African
Black Caribbean
White
Strongly agree Strongly disagree
I am worried about the prospect of having to repay loans and debts when I have completed my course
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
80%
90%
100%
Managerial and ProfessionalOccupations
Intermediate Occupations Routine and manualOccupations
Strongly agree Strongly disagree (
Clarity of Career plans – by subject at application
0 10 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100
Historical and philosophical studies
Languages
Linguistics and classics
Physical sciences
Social science/arts
Maths and computing
Mass communication and documentation
Other interdisciplinary
Business and Admin.
Social studies
Biology, Vet and Agricultural related
Science/social science
Creative art and design
Engineering and technology
Law
Architecture, building, planning
Subjects allied to medicine
Education
Medicine & Related
% scoring 6 or 7 on career plans
% scoring 1 or 2 on career plans
…and one year later
…changing ideas about career after 1 year in HE
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30%
Clear idea
2
3
4
5
6
No idea
Now registered as ft student on the course started in Autumn 2006Now registered as ft student on different courseNot currently registered as ft HE student
Reasons for changing course
Discussion
• what do these findings mean for practice?
