Access and Success Academy – The Principles of Information, Advice and Guidance and Their Importance for Widening Access

Access Academy Training

Ensuring that learners, particularly those from under-represented groups, get the right information, advice and guidance is key to ensuring that they can continue their educational journeys, make successful transitions into higher education, and have positive outcomes at the end of their courses. Successful and effective interventions can only be undertaken if we have a thorough understanding of how to guide learners through the myriads of options that are available to them.

Delivered by the International Centre for Guidance Studies at the University of Derby, this one-day online course will look at Information, Advice and Guidance theory and practice, and relate this to working with learners and students from under-represented groups. By the end of the course participants will:

• Understand and be able to apply career development theories to their own work in their own particular context.
• Be able to describe the skills and techniques for successful one-to-one guidance.
• Know the different approaches that are used in relation to group work sessions and individual session and consider the benefits and challenges of each approach.
• Consider specific challenges of working with particular client groups and how IAG can be used to support them towards positive careers outcomes.

This course is ideal for those wishing to develop their skills and ensuring that the learners, with whom they interact, receive the best possible IAG.

It is particularly relevant for:

• Heads of Widening Participation or Careers Services.
• Higher education professionals who regularly advise learners from under-represented backgrounds.
• Schools’ liaison or community outreach professionals.
• Uni Connect professionals.

We expect this event to be exceptionally popular. Places are limited and will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.