Whether you are a school or the college, education head or teaching staff, Developing the Young Workforce Orkney can help you by giving you access to employers who can support your learning programmes and help meet the Career Education Standard.
We can link you with businesses who can offer career insights and inspiration, bring the curriculum to life, help develop employability and wider life skills of young people, and support your own staff development activity.
The DYW Orkney project team can help you to:
We can link you with businesses who can offer career insights and inspiration, bring the curriculum to life, help develop employability and wider life skills of young people, and support your own staff development activity.
The DYW Orkney project team can help you to:
- Raise awareness among your students of different career pathways;
- Promote apprenticeships as a positive career option;
- Arrange sector and industry insight opportunities;
- Access real business projects that relate to curricular areas;
- Source work experience opportunities;
- Engage the experience and skills of local employers across a wide range of sectors;
- Support your efforts to promote equality of opportunity and help young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.