Career advice ‘must be impartial’
Posted by Mark Ludlam on Tuesday, 15 January, 2008
BBC Website, 15.01.08
Schools will be legally required to deliver impartial careers advice to teenagers, under proposed legislation being debated in the House of Commons.
This will ban schools and colleges in England from “unduly promoting” their own courses or types of qualification.
There have been claims of biased advice, such as schools discouraging their pupils from switching to rival local further education colleges.
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