Date:
12/05/2022
Your Name:Â Â
Jez MacDonald
Position:Â
Head of Data & Digital
Solution Name:Â
Compass +
Main Funding Source:
DfE
Phase(s) of Education:
14-19Â
Number of Students or Users:Â
2,300 schools using Compass+ increasing by 10-15/week
Purposes of Education supported:Â
Careers education
Solution Description:
Compass+ helps schools to benchmark their careers provision and to manage, track and report on the school’s careers programme at an individual student level. As well as the evaluation tool and activity management at student level, Compass+ includes a database of careers activity providers, intended and actual destinations tracking, Future Skills Questionnaire to assesses students’ careers knowledge and skills, student profile and an apprenticeship search.
Solution Origin:
The CEC was tasked by the DfE’s Careers Strategy 2017 to develop and roll out a self-assessment tool for schools to assess how their careers provision compares against the Gatsby Benchmarks and digital tools to support schools in achieving the benchmarks. Compass and Tracker were launched in 2017. Following feedback from Careers Leaders, who wanted to manage activities at individual student level, Compass + was launched in 2019 featuring integration with school’s management information systems (MIS).Â
Potential for systemic impact (EXCLUDING Equity)?
Our aspiration is for all schools to be effectively using Compass+ to improve their careers provision at student level and to provide data that allows CEC and the DfE to target support effectively across England.
Does the solution improve Equity? How?Â
The solution allows Careers Leaders to see which students are missing out on careers activities and to address gaps. New features to make this easier for Careers Leaders to manage will be rolled out in 2022/23.
Other barriers to adoption:
We are unable to integrate with a small number (3-4%) of school MIS for technical reasons, but the main barrier is the lack of time Careers Leaders have to engage with Compass+.