Education Matters

What’s Next? Read the latest education and career guide for students in Years 9-13

What’s Next? is a booklet that gives Gloucestershire students in Years 9-13 information and advice about choosing GCSE options, post-16 study, the world of work, and preparing themselves for adulthood.

Designed with the help of students, What’s Next? takes young people through the choices they have, and suggests lots of resources where they can explore these options for themselves. Students have to stay in a form of education or training until their 18th birthday, but this doesn't have to be at school. What's Next? outlines all the options available, including apprenticeships, traineeships or part-time training whilst working, and shows there is more than one route to success.

You can download What’s Next? 2020-21 here.