Compass+ and FSQ

Use Compass+ to benchmark, manage, track and report on your institution’s careers provision at individual learner level. It’s available to most secondary schools, special schools, sixth forms and alternative provision in England.

If you are currently using Compass (also known as Compass Classic), you can login to your Compass account and upgrade to Compass+.

The Future Skills Questionnaire (FSQ) is a tool to measure learners’ career-readiness. FSQ covers key aspects of knowledge, skills and attitudes that are important for successful transitions.

The Future Skills Questionnaire is a tool embedded into Compass+, it allows you to effectively measure learners’ career-readiness. Simple data insight can support you to make targeted interventions, evaluate your careers programme and identify the impact of careers education in your setting.

The questions are mapped against the Gatsby Benchmarks, learning outcomes from the CDI framework and the Skills Builder framework for essential skills.

Over 7,000 young people across the South Midlands completed the Future Skills Questionnaire in 2023/24, giving those schools delivering it a fantastic insight into the career readiness of their students and the longer term impact of their careers programme. 

Interested in delivering the FSQ with your students but don’t know where to start?

Compass+ and FSQ webinars run regularly throughout the year, sign up here where you can also view recordings of past webinars.