Careers advice for seven-year-olds.Summary: Plans are being unveiled to give careers advice to primary school children as young as seven. Plans are being unveiled to give careers advice to primary school children as young as seven. Schools Secretary Ed Balls is proposing to offer career-related learning, as well as opportunities to experience university life and the world of work, to children aged between seven and eleven. Mr Balls will launch the new scheme alongside Manchester Manchester, city, England Manchester (măn`chəstər, –chĕs'tər), city and metropolitan district (1991 pop. 397,400), NW England, on the Irwell, Medlock, Irk, and Tib rivers. United manager Sir Alex (language) Alex - 1. A polymorphic language being developed by Stephen Crawley <sxc@itd.dtso.oz.au> of Defence Science & Tech Org, Australia. Alex has abstract data types, type inference and inheritance. 2. He argues there needs to be a "radical change" in careers advice, as it is "too late" for children to start thinking about their future at 14. He said: "Many people have anecdotal anecdotal /an·ec·do·tal/ (an?ek-do´t'l) based on case histories rather than on controlled clinical trials. anecdotal adjective Unsubstantiated; occurring as single or isolated event. experiences of really bad careers advice and often say if they had their chance again they would have done something different. I want this generation of young people to be able to look back and say their careers advice and guidance was relevant and gave them informed options." End-of-year assemblies at primary school could be used to introduce children to career options. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Independent Television News Limited 2009. All rights reserved. Provided by Syndigate.info an Albawaba.com company |
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