Doncaster Chamber believes a step change in both quality and quantity of careers advice for school leavers, and the number of private sector representatives involved in education governance.
Proposals to improve Doncaster‘s performance in both of these areas are included in the Chamber’s recently published Manifesto – Doncaster ’35: A Manifesto for a Winning City.
Congratulating those who’d received their results this week, Chamber CEO Dan Fell said “Last week, data was published showing that Doncaster is the best performing town or city in Yorkshire when it comes to the growth of our business stock. This, along with pending news about a new operator for our re-opening airport and the investment of flagships businesses such as Hybrid Air Vehicles into our city, shows that Doncaster is on the up.
“I would therefore strongly encourage young people receiving their GCSE and A-Level results to look at local training and employment opportunities and to seriously consider pursuing a career in Doncaster’s increasingly vibrant business community.
“However, despite many years of concerted effort by many talented people and organisations, we still hear too much dissatisfaction from employers about the way their industry or sector is promoted to young people, and too many employers fear that a hopeful message about Doncaster’s economy is not getting through to young people.
“That is why we have called, in our recently published manifesto, for a shake-up of careers advice in this country and for careers to have increased prevalence in the way schools are assessed by organisations like Ofsted.
“To help embed a demand-led approach to skills within our local education community, we are also encouraging more business leaders to put themselves forward for education governance roles. Being a school governor is a great way to use your skills to enhance peoples’ lives and to help ensure that the curriculum aligns with the needs of your sector. Many talented young people will be celebrating today, by closer aligning the education and business communities, we can ensure as many of those young people access exciting careers as locally as possible.”
