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Reimagining Careers Education

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Funding a Career Test Doesn’t Mean You're doing Careers Education

Why and how tests should be used with caution, and in context. This article by Liv Pennie was first published in Education Today, August 2022, and has been updated in response to recent discussions with educators on expectations around career tests....

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Making a Difference in the World (as long as it's in medicine or law)

I’m an optimist. But wow, that bubble has been a bit deflated reading the recent Monash Uni discussion paper, Young Women Choosing Careers: Who...

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Careers education is hope - A short case study

Recently, we received an email from an inspiring school who have just begun to use BECOME. The Liverpool Hospital School provides education for...

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Real Purpose

Lauren Passmore, Stage 3 Teacher, shares how she gets students really engaged with learning! It’s your mathematics block. You’ve poured hours into...

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The many faces of student futures

When we were planning upcoming Reimagining Careers Education sessions, we asked our community what they liked from the last two years of live, online...

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Cultivating Curiosity

“Curiosity will conquer fear more than bravery will.” James Stephens, Novelist and Poet Facing the future is anxious work for many of our students....

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Change can be catching

Something rather wonderful has happened as a result of the pandemic that should have change managers and management consultants quaking in their...

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The Future is Bright!

How do young people arrive at a point when they decide ‘what I want to do when I finish school’? This has been a passion of mine throughout my career...

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What Is Success?

We lack the tools that we need to make reasonable decisions for ourselves as we go through life. Traditional education doesn’t adequately prepare us...

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Aspiring to jobs of the future?

What next with the OECD Report: Dream jobs? Teenage career aspirations and the future of work.

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