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Make the Future Yours! magazine
Make the Future Yours! is published online, six times a year, and is aimed at helping people find a direction and assisting them navigate through the education and training landscape.
The magazine aims to be an informative, impartial resource for young people, parents, tutors, career-changers and employers; in short, for anyone looking for inspiration or advice on future career and work-related choices.
We’ll also feature the opinions and experience of interesting personalities as a means to create a wider awareness of opportunities available.
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Special Edition of our magazine
A special edition of our magazine, Make the Future Yours!, focussed on careers in the space industry with articles, case studies and information on the routes in, will be published in June 2024 and available to download from this website.
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Editorial Policy
Inclusivity and accessibility
In order to be as inclusive and accessible as we can be to all our readers, we operate under a number of key guiding principles:
We aim to be geographically diverse, ensuring realistic opportunities are featured for people living in all parts of the UK, not just focusing on centres of high population.
In each issue we will be demographically diverse, featuring a range of individuals and organisations which reflect the range of life experience of those living in the UK.
We try our best to feature ‘role models’ who have challenged traditional stereotypes, whilst avoiding tokenism.
Across all our work, we actively try to feature the most diverse range of qualifications, skills and careers that we can, in order that all readers have the best chance of being inspired by our content.
What we cover
To achieve the diversity of content that we desire for our readers, we have a number of regular features to help us ensure a broad spread. For example:
Apprenticeships – Case studies and interviews featuring current and past Apprentices, employers and trainers covering Level 2 to Degree/Higher; featuring local training providers and colleges; representing the broadest spread of skill areas delivered in our region, and progression opportunities.
Higher Education – articles featuring advice or spotlighting courses offered by Universities (and other HE establishments) in our region; relevant advice for current or aspiring students, such as Student Finance, Year Out, Settling into Uni life etc.
Local Heroes – Interviews or case studies featuring an individual or business working locally who has a ‘different’ story to tell, for example, by over-coming particular challenges or achieving notable success.
Top Ten Employment Sectors – guided by Labour Market Information (LMI) data supplied by the Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP), we will seek to ensure that the largest sectors in our region (and sectors anticipating increased demand) are featured in across our issues, either in their own right or by ensuring they are covered in a case study or interview under another heading.
Big Employers – Our region is home to many large employers offering a diversity of opportunity in their business; many offer specialist services nationally. Either as a feature in their own right or by conglomerating with a case study or feature under another heading, we will endeavour to ensure our larger employers are regularly represented.
Quirky Careers – to provide counterpoint to our features on large employment sectors and large businesses, we will also seek to feature individuals or businesses who choose to work in unusual or specialist fields, especially where these have relevance regionally.
Application tips – we will aim to offer advice on the whole application process (for college, university, Apprenticeship or work); this will often be done through featuring HR professionals, Admissions teams and recruiters to offer an ‘inside track’ on current best practice; topics like ‘how volunteering can boost your CV’ or ‘What is an assessment centre’ would be typical.
Enterprise – an increasing number of people are choosing to be self-employed or start their own business; through interviews with successful entrepreneurs, we aim to pass on the benefit of their experiences.
Life Skills – this feature aims to put working life in the broader context of personal and household finances; typical topics, covered by guest experts, will include mortgages, credit cards and pensions.
Qualifications focus – this feature will be editorial content to cover any new qualifications published (such as T Levels) or alternative ways of study (such as part-time professional courses or Access to HE courses).
Directory – our Directory section will appear towards the back of each published issue and feature two key areas:
Diary section of relevant forthcoming dates (such as regional university open dates and application deadlines, National Apprenticeship Week etc) which will be updated in each issue and:
Further Information section which will signpost to third party information sources both regional and national (such as UCAS, National Careers Service etc), which will typically be updated as required or if we are notified of a new, useful source of information that should be included.