Information and Advice
Contact the NAGC Information and Advice line on 0845 450 0295 or email educationconsultant@nagcbritain.org.uk
Click here to check the fact sheets on this website.
Booklets and Guides
Where next? Packed with information to help parents support the choices of their teenagers through GCSEs, A Levels and university.
G&T journal 2006
G&T Journal 2007
Check out the wide range of books in the NAGC shop http://www.nagcbritain.org.uk/shop/productsresults.php?type=5&sortby=1
Other Resources
Resources to promote social, emotional and behavioural skills www.incentiveplus.co.uk/
Creative thinking
http://www.thinkingoutofabox.talktalk.net/
Clubs, Groups and Organisations
NAGC Explorers Clubs provide opportunities for children to meet like-minded peers and try something new http://www.nagcbritain.org.uk/about.php?id=28
Become a young member of your local museum or of a national museum like the Natural History Museum in London.
Ask at your local library about local organisations that have youth branches. There may be local youth volunteers or a local interest club.
Check out a specific area of interest such as bird or conservation http://www.rspb.org.uk/
Contact the local Adult Centre for Education, sometimes via your librabry or local community college, for evening classes and one day workshops or Lifelong Learning.
Contact your local Community College for information on day courses, workshops and seminars in life skills to help with social and emotional difficulties. Many of them offer communication skills, assertiveness, leadership skills, anger management and much more.
Enquire with your school head, Local Authority and/or local Further Education College for information and establishments that consder students for early entry for GCSE and/or A Level.
Take a look at the OU information on its Young Applicants in Schools and Colleges Scheme http://www.open.ac.uk/yass/index.php
Combine learning a new skill with some community work through the Duke of Edinburg Award http://www.dofe.org/
