Ms Fiona Longmuir:

We are definitely hoping to engage with the Institute for Guidance Counsellors. It has such an important role to play. The Deputy is absolutely right. We were at the Higher Options conference the other week. I would say that more than half of the questions were from young people saying they really love physics but were worried they would not get a job. That is not the reality at all, so that message is obviously not getting through. To address the Chair's point about businesses engaging with schools, the more that we can do to strengthen the link between business and school, and between what students are learning in the classroom and their real world applications, the better.