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Bev Laing: Jul 23, 2026 10:05:12 AM
Globally and in Australia, there's been a recent, significant shift away from traditional ways of helping students think about careers and their futures. Rather than focusing young people on a single career decision at the end of schooling,...
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Bev Laing: Mar 12, 2026 4:51:01 PM
Who designs the scaffolding? I often admire the complexity of large building projects, and being an education designer it's the scaffolding stage...
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Bev Laing: Nov 13, 2025 2:22:38 PM
If you're good at Maths, you could aspire to become a mathematician. If you enjoy History, why not become a historian! If you're good at English, you...
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Bev Laing: Jul 22, 2025 5:22:00 PM
There's so much going on at school. Teaching knowledge and understanding, learning skills for study, life and wellbeing. Some - but not all - of it...
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Bev Laing: Mar 13, 2025 3:37:18 PM
Let's look at the second new feature BECOME has released for schools this month! The new Lesson Flythroughs are a super-quick way for BECOME teachers...
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Bev Laing: Mar 7, 2025 3:56:41 PM
We show BECOME to a lot of people. Sometimes what we hear really drives home how much the Career Development profession has done itself a disservice...
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Bev Laing: Nov 13, 2024 11:48:40 AM
A scramble for decisions at the end of high school is often too little and too late to prepare students for fulfilled lives and careers.
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Bev Laing: May 8, 2024 9:18:19 PM
Most educators, parents and specialists would agree: the transition from Primary to High School can be challenging. Students have to get used to...
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Bev Laing: Mar 7, 2024 12:29:01 PM
You know how - a bit too often - when discussing senior subject selections with students, they say, 'I haven't really thought about it'. Or they come...
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Bev Laing: Oct 20, 2023 10:10:52 AM
Updated October 2024 A while ago, we asked on social media what movies and TV shows people thought made great examples for career development (and...