Guidance Plus

Guidance Plus aims to enhance the number of successful applications to higher education programmes at colleges and other institutions by building clear links with appropriate courses and by offering enhanced opportunities for students to engage with and visit the institutions linked to their course of study. This includes peer mentoring by students on higher level courses, enhanced career guidance activities for individuals and groups who are currently under-represented on HE courses and detailed tracking of student destinations.

Additional guidance is targeted at younger students who have joined non-advanced programmes of study directly from school and who, with extra encouragement, advice and information, could progress to higher education.

Students joining a course at non-advanced level direct from school need considerable support and encouragement if they are to progress to HE. In many cases they may not think that they have the ability to succeed or they may not understand the range of opportunities open to them as they achieve at each rung of the qualifications ladder. This project aims to target those students who can aspire to higher education and to support them in making transition from non-advanced education to the course of their choice.

For more information contact: kthirkell@elmwood.ac.uk or ian.dowell@careers-scotland.org.uk