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The International Centre for Guidance Studies (iCeGS) specialises in careers education and guidance. Across different national jurisdictions, government engagement with, and support for, career guidance has varied considerably. iCeGS has a track record of engagement and influence on the development of policy in the UK and overseas. Major areas of influence can be summarised as follows:
1) development and systemisation of the evidence base around career guidance;
2) re-orientation of career guidance paradigms around learning and career management skills models;
3) development of innovative new models of delivery involving new technologies;
4) analysis and development of career guidance policy frameworks.
Pathways that individuals navigate through education, training and employment are becoming ever more complex and high quality labour market information (LMI) is crucial for careers advice and in informing decisions about where to invest in skills training. Research undertaken by Bimrose, with Brown, Barnes and Hughes has resulted in new policy frameworks for systems design and delivery of careers services; and has informed professional development in careers policy, research and practice. Internationally, the Institute for Employment Research (IER) at Warwick has informed and shaped policy debate and practice on career development services in response to political, economic, technological and social changes.
Research at King's has had a direct influence on the perceived value of workforce planning in the Department of Health and the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (RPSGB) and has resulted in its use in relation to pharmacists. Building on long-term research, King's academics developed a model to predict the demand for and supply of pharmacists in the UK over a five and ten year period. These findings changed thinking in the Department of Health and the RPSGB in 2006, and underpinned a change in UK policy. A national policy decision was taken to support the opening and accreditation of up to eight new university Schools of Pharmacy to help to address the anticipated shortfall in the supply of pharmacists predicted by the research.