Students have the opportunity to learn:
- to evaluate their own personal strengths and areas for development and to use this to inform goal setting
- about the unacceptability of all forms of discrimination, and the need to challenge it in the wider community including the workplace
- to think critically about extremism and intolerance in whatever forms they take
- to recognise the shared responsibility to protect the community from violent extremism and how to respond to anything that causes anxiety or concern
- about harassment and how to manage this (including the workplace)
- how their strengths, interests, skills and qualities are changing and how these relate to future employability
- about the information, advice and guidance available to them and how to access it
- to further develop study and employability skills (including time management, self-organisation and presentation, project planning, team-working, networking and managing online presence)
- about the range of opportunities available to them for career progression, including in education, training and employment
- about changing patterns of employment (local, national, European and global)
- to take full advantage of any opportunities for work experience that are available
- about rights and responsibilities at work (including their roles as workers, and the roles and responsibilities of employers and unions)
- about attitudes and values in relation to work and enterprise (including terms such as ‘customer service’ and ‘protecting corporate or brand image’)
- about confidentiality in the workplace, when it should be kept and when it might need to be broken
- to develop their career identity, including how to maximise their chances when applying for education or employment opportunities
- to recognise and manage the influences on their financial decisions, (including managing risk, planning for expenditure, understanding debt and gambling in all its forms)
- to be a critical consumer of goods and services (including financial services) and recognise the wider impact of their purchasing choices
- their consumer rights and how to seek redress
