The Gatsby Benchmarks are a key measure of the effectiveness of careers advice. They are also a very important part of the Government’s career strategy. The Gatsby Benchmarks are a framework of 8 guidelines that define the best careers provision in schools and colleges.
- Benchmark 1 – A Stable Career’s Programme
- Benchmark 2 – Learning from Career and Labour Market Information
- Benchmark 3 – Addressing the Needs of Each Student
- Benchmark 4 – Linking Curriculum Learning to Careers
- Benchmark 5 – Encounters with Employers and Employees
- Benchmark 6 – Experiences of Workplaces
- Benchmark 7 – Encounters with Further and Higher Education
- Benchmark 8 – Personal Guidance
Measuring the impact of the Careers Guidance:
We regularly measure and assess the impact of our careers guidance programme. Maintaining the highest scores during a pandemic has been difficult, but the compass tracker allows us to see where we are doing well, and where there are gaps; here is the compass tracker for Rawlins. The tracker enables us to record and identify how we are improving our careers education activity against the eight benchmarks of best practice – known as the Gatsby Benchmarks
