In the modern economy, there are many new and diverse careers. To ensure young people are supported to develop and pursue all different types of skillsets and find the best route to suit their individual talents, Mount House School, Hertfordshire, has developed a dual-pathway Sixth Form model, supported by an Enterprise Curriculum. Head of the School, Jon Cooper, outlines what this looks like and how its possible for Sixth Forms to adopt enterprise pathways that balance academic rigour with practical experience.
When students leave Sixth Form, exam results and university destinations are no longer the sole measures of their future success. As the World Economic Forum1 has highlighted, technology is reshaping industries and making career paths less predictable, increasing the importance of skills such as adaptability, communication, problem-solving, and confident decision-making alongside academic achievement.
No one can say for sure what the employment market will look like in a decade, but we do know that young people will need these skills to navigate change and the judgement to apply their learning in new situations. With that in mind, every school should be asking: “How well does our Sixth Form prepare students for what comes next?”…