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Your future career
Susan Acland-Hood, Permanent Secretary, Department for Education
Our dedicated careers team is ready and available to help you realise your potential through a wealth of opportunities beyond your core studies.
Shaping your future doesn’t start from the moment you leave sixth form, it begins right now. Whether you are secure in your direction or are unsure about where your studies might take you, our careers team can help you on your journey. Through our strong links with business and highly valued reputation in industry we provide numerous opportunities to help you realise your potential. We tailor a bespoke careers education for you to ensure you receive the opportunities, experiences and skills development to take you closer to your dream future. We attract a large variety of universities, employers and apprenticeship providers to our campus through our extensive programme of careers fairs, networking and Russell Group events. A highlight of our year is the STEM-based Science Festival and we also run Young Enterprise and Extended Project Qualification (EPQ)
Cowes Sixth Form is delighted to have been presented with the prestigious Quality in Careers Standards award, in recognition of the wide range of career programmes and support offered to students.
evenings, where students showcase their work. We understand that some students need a greater level of support to get to where they aspire and offer intervention and bespoke assistance where helpful. The vast majority of our students who apply to university gain their first choice and we achieve above national average enrolment to Russell Group universities across wide ranging courses. We also offer a specific support programme for Oxbridge, medicine, veterinary and dentistry candidates.
