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Reimagining Careers Education

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Designing a career development program: a case study

Recently we checked in with Andrew McEwan, Deputy Principal of Holy Spirit College Fitzgibbon, Queensland. Their experience can offer some insights for other schools seeking to create inspiring career education with their Year 8 and 9 students.

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Designing your life from the inside

We’ve written before about the three main pitfalls of careers tests. The kind of tests that promise to deliver The Answer, The Solution, The One True...

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The secret ingredient for subject selection

Student agency. It's the secret ingredient that we're all after. By agency, we mean young people taking active control over their life and learning....

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Empathy and Careers Education

Prompted by a recent article in The Guardian, BECOME Education Consultant Grace Kinch, has been thinking about some of the surprises students may...

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People must not be married at first sight to career options

First published in the Sydney Morning Herald, June 10, 2023. Narrowing down our options is probably the most common approach to decision-making. Its...

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The Most Powerful Thing you Can Do...

... before they leave Primary school. If you could give your students one big thing before they leave Primary school, something that would set them...

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BECOME.ME 4.0

The latest App update Next time you check in to the BECOME.Me app, you should be seeing the latest version, v4.0.

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Going for Goals

As we start the year it's natural to set goals for ourselves, our teams and our students. But this extract, from one of the podcasts by Prof. Jim...

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How to Design Your Future

BECOME and Clickview, the education and learning video specialists, are delighted to release the first three episodes in the new careers program, How...

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Talking to Students about Space Careers

Heard on a New York sidewalk: “Pardon me,” the man says, “can you tell me how to get to Carnegie Hall?” “Yes,” answers the maestro. “Practice!” This...

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