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 careersRead More →
Should uni be an aspiration – or a ‘failsafe’?
2019-10-16
In my last blog post, I mentioned that I’d got into a correspondence with teacher and author Matt Pinkett about whether young people – especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds – should aspire to university. Matt suggested that perhaps young people should set their sights on the career they want and, if they can’t make serious progress towards it as they leave school, then they should consider university as a back-up – a ‘failsafe’, as he called it. After our previous discussions, he asked what I thought about this. This was my response (with a few edits to make it a blog more than a emailRead More →
