Archive for Education

Career Planning – Confusion or Direction

CAREER Coach Never before has so much diverse and often conflicting information been available to those in the process of course selection, vocational options and career planning. Our school leavers, in particular, are now able to access and use technological tools to assist them in searching for career pathways that match their skills, aptitudes and [...]

TV or NOT TV?

That is the question. One constant source of concern to responsible parents and concerned educators world-wide is the appropriateness of some television programs that are screened at times when children and adolescents are part of the potential viewing audience. Some of the following considerations can be made when acting in a child or adolescent’s best [...]

The New Worker

CAREER COACH As the new world of work is explored in greater depth, clients will understand that a fundamental tenet of biology dictates that the process of division within any single species creates both new and existing species. In an Y2K world of work, a new species of worker is emerging, and it is perhaps [...]

Breakaway

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Gender Pathways?

CAREER COACH Can you imagine a book called The Beauty therapist, The Mechanic, The Geoscientist and the Librarian: Addressing Under valuation in Women’s Work? Professor Rosemary Hunter’s title suggests much to many, but what does it actually mean to us as part of a “learning” community and nation? What role does gender actually play in [...]