Signs and wonders: Better CEIAG
2022-03-18
What is CEIAG and how does know what it is help us improve it?
Why do we undervalue careers advisers?
2021-10-16
We’ve all heard – or told – tales about how some careers advisor “told me to be a [insert laughably inappropriate career]”, but people who are helped by careers advice tend never to mention it. Why? Can it be true that careers advice is so wide of the mark? Of course not.
The long Covid of careers
2020-10-27
The long Covid of careers: What’s the equivalent of hand-washing and mask-wearing for young people’s careers
Should uni be an aspiration – or a ‘failsafe’?
2019-10-16
I don’t think I agree with the idea of university as a ‘failsafe’, although I’m still not sure I understand what you intend by the word. So I’m going to use Matt Pinkett’s line: ‘Aim for whatever you want to do, and if you don’t get it, well, at least you can go to university.’ That assumes that whatever you want to do won’t be best achieved by going to uni. Obviously, university is not the best route for everything or for everyone, but for the vast majority of the best paid and most secure jobs, it is – if not a prerequisite – at least aRead More →
