Dev Clever Holdings PLC LaunchPAD Careers Platform (2847Q)
19 February 2019 - 6:00PM
UK Regulatory
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RNS Number : 2847Q
Dev Clever Holdings PLC
19 February 2019
Dev Clever Holdings plc
("Dev Clever" or "the Company")
LaunchPAD: Launchyourcareer.com
Dev Clever, a leading developer of mobile and immersive
experiences, is pleased to announce that its new careers guidance
product LaunchPAD successfully went live on Monday, 18th February
2019.
LaunchPAD (Launchyourcareer.com) is a pioneering online platform
that brings refreshing innovation to careers education. The
platform offers a unique digital experience for young people, their
parents and career advisors, welcoming users with an impressively
straightforward and personalised means of exploring their career
options. It is an intelligent platform that combines relevant,
centralised careers content with intuitive navigation, to guide
each user to the information they need to create a purposeful
career pathway.
LaunchPAD is supported by key partnerships with ICould, The
Careers Development Institute and leading educational institutions
including Solihull College and University Centre and Wolverhampton
College. The platform, which incorporates a personality assessment,
is designed to match young people, their personality and interests
to the careers that suit them the most. It also provides them with
live government sourced Labour Market Information (LMI)
highlighting the career's predicted employment growth by region,
predicted salary levels as well as video content recorded by
industry relevant professionals.
Once a career has been selected, LaunchPAD shows the academic,
vocational and apprenticeship study options available as well as
the specific courses and locations they can study in. The user will
be able to apply to any of the 308 FE Colleges, 106 University's,
3,800 Training and Apprenticeship providers and view the 19,150
employers that qualify for the apprenticeship levy. Annual fees
apply to each of these institutions and businesses and are offered
as a self-service, Software as a Service (SaaS) model on a tiered
subscription of up to GBP23k per annum determined by package
option.
LaunchPAD is to be supported by an integrated virtual reality
application VICTAR (Virtual, Interactive, Careers, Training &
Apprenticeship Robot). Launching in March 2019 this short virtual
reality experience is designed for secondary schools to use as part
of their career guidance programme and as a method to engage their
pupils in their career education. VICTAR, which will be available
to secondary schools in the UK on an annual SaaS based licence, is
designed specifically to support the government mandate of
delivering careers information as set out in the 8 Gatsby
Benchmarks.
1. A stable careers programme
2. Learning from career and labour market information
3. Addressing the needs of each pupil
4. Linking curriculum learning to careers
5. Encounters with employers and employees
6. Experiences of workplaces
7. Encounters with further and higher education
8. Personal guidance
LaunchPad and VICTAR have been in development for 3.5 years. Dev
Clever has worked in collaboration with students, schools,
educational institutions, training providers and employers to
produce this step change product that addresses the critical
national issue of bridging the UK Skills Gaps, which the government
estimates will cost the UK Tax Payer GBP90bn per year by 2024.
A forerunner of LaunchPad and VICTAR, FastForward, has been in
live testing for over 18 months with our partner Solihull College
and University Centre, who received a National FE First gold award,
incorporating the use of the interactive, virtual reality careers
engine.
Chris Jeffries CEO said:
This is an exciting step change in the way careers information
is delivered to school children as part of a more engaging and
stable careers programme, providing young people with the
opportunity to make an informed decision about their future. This
should dramatically reduce the risk of making the wrong choice,
which leads to mis-education and additional cost to the UK Tax
Payer. At the same time, it provides educators, training providers
and employers with a platform to advertise their offerings in a
more targeted, efficient and cost-effective way.
Sean Howitt Marketing Manager Solihull College & University
Centre said:
Dev Clever is at the forefront of the digital education
movement, and we are proud to offer our students their full suite
of digital products. Their communication and engagement solutions
have positioned our institute as leaders in innovation, and the
benefits to our students surpass our every expectation. The
FastForward platform is proving invaluable for our young people and
parents, and our community looks forward to Dev Clever's next
innovative product. On behalf of Solihull College & University
Centre, I would like to express our absolute support of Dev
Clever's expansion of the FastForward platform: this project has
the potential to deliver a considerable impact, particularly on a
regional basis, and we eagerly await the results.
Emma Evans Marketing Manager Wolverhampton College said:
Live data in relation to careers and employment is typically
difficult to source; LaunchPAD and the LMI information it presents
to students allows young people to easily and quickly access
current, relevant careers information. This is helping potential
learners make more informed course and career choices. From our
ongoing relationship with Dev Clever, we applaud their commitment
to the education sector, and our students benefit hugely from their
innovative ideas.
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