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Since 2014, MyBigCareer has been providing A Level results day support to Hackney schools, facilitated by the Hackney Learning Trust. In previous years, many students had simply been handed their results and left to navigate UCAS and Clearing with no support from teachers or parents. In schools where only a minority of students were applying…
MyBigCareer’s relationship with Parkside Community School, Chesterfield, began in 2014 when the charity’s founder Deborah Streatfield spoke at a forum at the school. This led to Headteacher Mrs. Kam Grewal-Joy inviting MyBigCareer back to run one-to-one interviews and mentoring with the students. We were delighted to be invited back again in March 2016 to carry…
MyBigCareer is proud to endorse the fantastic work of Great With Disability, experts in disability and graduate recruitment. www.greatwithdisability.com is a really useful website for students with disabilities or long-term physical and mental health conditions. It provides you with all the information you need as you apply for jobs and prepare for interviews as well…
Sixty aspiring medics attended our Access to Medicine event on November 30, and the feedback we have received from students and presenters has been resoundingly positive! The students were all from Year 12, and from schools supported by the Charity. The event was held in conjunction with the Royal College of Surgeons of England, who…
Deborah Streatfield will appear on the seminar panel for the Tuesday 2pm – Planning your Career session, speaking on behalf of My Big Career. ‘The Clothes Show’ takes place at the NEC, Birmingham between 4th-8th December 2015. The show seeks to cater for aspiring student to recent graduate and boasts a huge amount of education…
Deborah Streatfield of MyBigCareer has criticised the selling of hospital work experience placements for £500. She says it is “completely unfair” that pupils interested in studying medicine were being asked to pay for work experience to help their university applications. Read the full article on the BBC website.
Deborah’s call to ‘level the playing field’ has been picked up by the Daily Mail in this article. You can read the full article here on PressReader.
Seven Careers Advisers spent a lovely day at Bolingbroke Academy, providing advice to all their Year 9 students. Read all about it from the Bolingbroke newsletter:
HYMS Postgraduate student and researcher Anna Radford gave a presentation in London at a Hackney secondary school to year 11 students interested in pursuing a medical career. In her 45 minute presentation, followed by a question and answer session, Anna talked about the pluses and minuses of a career in medicine and how it can…
