Teacher and Careers Adviser Conference

Introduction and Keynote Speech - Professor Karen Bryan, Vice Chancellor.

Presenters will also include:

• Matthew Taylor, Director of Marketing, Student Recruitment and Admissions.
• Grant Saker, Head of Student Recruitment & Widening Participation.

Choose 1 from: 

• Campus Tour of our main campus.
• Learn all about the Degree Apprenticeships that York St John has to offer.

CPD Session: This session will look at the views of young people about the issues affecting their mental health and wellbeing post pandemic. It will draw on the outcomes of a small research project with secondary school students in York to identify and analyse factors that young people suggest might: contribute to mental health concerns; and those that might mitigate and improve such concerns. The session will draw on these findings to consider appropriate local and national policy responses that might address young people’s mental health concerns and their impact.

This session will be presented by the researchers, Dr Margaret Wood and Dr Andrew Pennington from YSJ School of Education, Language and Psychology.

CPD Session: A session on students with caring responsibilities including how to identify and support them to enter higher education. 

This session will be presented by Emma Coward Gibbs and Anna Deacon - YSJ staff from our Student Success and Learning Services team.

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