Futures and Career Leaders' Conference - Tuesday 17 June 2025 (City of London School, London)

Time

Session

09:30 – 10.00

Arrival, registration, and coffee

10.00 – 10.10

Welcome and introduction    

Speaker:  Keri Moorhouse, HMC Education Officer

Input from Conference sponsor: The Savannah College of Art and Design

10.10 – 11.05

Session 1: The current/changing landscape of HE

Speaker:  Sarra Jenkins, Director of Future Pathways, Loughborough Grammar School

11.05 – 11.15

Refreshment break

11.15 – 12.05

Session 2: Graduate Careers Labour Market

Speaker:

James Darley, Founder and CEO, Transform Society

12.05 – 12.50

Session 3: Panel Session:

Futures and career programme management 

• Bodil Chambers, Director of Future Guidance, City of London School
• Wendy Heydorn, Director of Higher Education, Sevenoaks School
• Laurence Goodwin, Head of US & International University Applications, Sevenoaks School
• Sarah Barnard, Director of Futures, Teacher of History and Politics, Downe House

12.50 – 13.30

Lunch

13.30 – 14.15

Session 4: ‘Understanding and implementing external criteria’.

This session will be an interactive workshop. Building on the preceding session on programme management, we will break down the external criteria which informs and in some cases forms practice, evaluation and validation.

We will cover:

• The recent changes to the Gatsby Benchmarks and implications for our settings;
• Using the CDI’s Framework
• External evaluation and assessment: ISI inspection and the Quality in Careers Standard (QiCS) Award.

The focus will be on learning from and sharing with each other – delegates are encouraged to submit copies of their School’s programmes in advance so that we can organise groups for the session. If relevant, please also feel free to share feedback from Inspection focusing on Careers provision. Please forward to pd@hmc.org.uk

Speaker: Dr Rachael Pearson, Head of Careers and Progression, Oakham School

14.15 –

14.35

Session 5: Entrepreneurship and the Curriculum

Dominic Kalantary, Managing Director, Vectare

14.30 – 14.45

Refreshment break

14.45 – 15.55

Networking and sharing best practice

Delegates are invited to submit discussion topics in advance of the Conference to pd@hmc.org.uk

15.55 – 16.00

Closing remarks and depart

Keri Moorhouse; Bodil Chambers