Higher Education And Careers
Our careers education and guidance programme is an important means of motivating students and raising aspirations. It encourages students to see learning and career development as a life long process. It has an important role to play as part of a broad and balanced education, helping individual students to build the skills, knowledge, attitudes and values to:
- develop knowledge of themselves: strengths, weaknesses, personal qualities; and have a balanced view of their self worth and potential;
- take up education, training and career opportunities;
- make informed choices about education, training and career progression
- develop self reliance and take responsibility for their own decisions now and in the future;
- prepare for adult responsibilities, including effective relationships with colleagues.
In Years 10 and 11 careers education is integrated into the life skills programme and all students have a work experience placement at the end of Year 11.
Advice on careers and university entrance is readily available from our dedicated careers team, the well-stocked careers library and the Academy intranet. Students can benefit from our excellent links with universities and colleges, including Oxford and Cambridge and, in the future, those based abroad.
Students are given practical help, including opportunities to attend university and college Open Days; additional, relevant work experience; and advice on job and university applications.
Expert advice is also available from other organisations. The Academy works with Greater Merseyside Connexions, ISCO, parents, representatives from local businesses and industry, and with higher education providers.
Where do Belvedere Sixth Formers go?
Belvedere Sixth Formers who sat their A Levels in 2006 went on to the following universities and courses:
University/college Course
Bath Pharmacy
Cambridge Law
Edinburgh Biological Sciences
Edinburgh English Language
Edge Hill College of Ed (Lancaster) Early Years Education
Edge Hill College of Ed (Lancaster) Physical Education
Goldsmiths College (Uni. of London) Sociology
Lancaster Law
Leeds Information Systems
Liverpool Accounting
Liverpool Archaeology (Arts)
Liverpool Architecture
Liverpool Bioveterinary Science
Liverpool Business Economics
Liverpool Communication and Business Studies
Liverpool Communication and Business Studies
Liverpool Criminology and Sociology
Liverpool Dental Surgery
Liverpool English Language and Literature
Liverpool Mathematics
Liverpool Mathematics with Finance
Liverpool Medicine
Liverpool Medicine
Liverpool Philosophy
Liverpool Psychology
Liverpool John Moore’s Childhood and Adolescent Studies
Liverpool John Moore’s Nursing (Child)
Liverpool John Moore’s Secondary Physical Education, Sport and Dance (QTS)
Manchester Fashion and Textile Retailing
Manchester Law
Manchester Metropolitan French and German (2007)
Newcastle Biomedical Sciences
Newcastle Classics
Oxford Biological Sciences
Oxford Chemistry
Queen Mary, University of London Law
St Andrews History
Swansea (University of Wales) Marine Biology
A further three students took a gap year and one went straight into employment