Clause 1 - Extension of duty to provide careers guidance in schools

Part of Education (Careers Guidance in Schools) Bill – in the House of Commons at 10:00 am on 14 January 2022.

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Photo of Chris Clarkson Chris Clarkson Conservative, Heywood and Middleton 10:00, 14 January 2022

I will not speak at great length about the amendments, only to say that every time my hon. Friend Sir Christopher Chope speaks, I always think that I went to the right university, because like him I am a graduate of Queen’s College, St Andrews, now Dundee University. I was interested in the way that he rationalised the idea of moving to an objective test. He will know that that relies on the man on the Clapham omnibus being the benchmark as the unified standard of quality, shall we say. My hon. Friend Mark Jenkinson eloquently made the point that that could end up baking in that quality.

I can speak only to my own experience. I was dead set throughout most of my A-levels on being a doctor. I have no scientific aptitude, but I convinced myself that that was what I was going to do—