Career decision-making, influences and information
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Qualitative Research on Career Pathways of Regulated Costs Lawyers
14/11/2025
The Costs Lawyer Standards Board (CLSB), the regulator of Costs Lawyers in England and Wales, has commissioned the Careers Research and Advisory Centre (CRAC) to conduct qualitative research on regulated Costs Lawyers’ career pathways. This follow-up project builds on a survey, run by CLSB ...
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Ensuring high quality in careers information
28/10/2020
CRAC has helped Health Education England to undertake a review of the quality of career information it provides through its Health Careers unit (including the Health Careers and Step into the NHS websites). This has involved developing a new assessment methodology to consider a variety of aspects...
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Evaluation of STEM Insight programme
10/06/2015
STEM Learning commissioned CRAC to undertake an evaluation of its STEM Insight programme, through which school science teachers undertake a placement in industry. The evaluation, based on in-depth interviews with a designed sample of participating teachers, school leaders and placement hosts, inc...
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Understanding how people choose to pursue taught postgraduate study (HEFCE, 2014)
01/06/2014
With help from the International Centre for Guidance Studies, CRAC has completed research for HEFCE to understand better and help HE providers to meet the information needs of prospective PGT students, so that they can make well-informed choices. This included:
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Early evaluation of Unistats: experiences of users (for HEFCE, 2012-13)
11/06/2013
Working with the International Centre for Guidance Studies, CRAC conducted research to evaluate the operation and value of the newly relaunched national Unistats website, which utilises the Key Information Set of data about higher education and courses. The research with users, through observed g...