Jackie Hartley’s BLOG

Just been listening to a Radio 4 programme called You & Yours, with a panel talking about Careers Guidance, and I have to say my heart sank. The tone was the usual ‘The advice we got in school was pretty useless’ and while the panel talked about the importance of work experience and not over […]

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Woke up to the sound of a huge JCB demolishing part of the house (some old outbuildings actually). Boy are those things powerful. It collapsed a solid, concrete block built structure like it was made […]

Working at the university careers centre yesterday I again spent quite a bit of time checking student’s CVs. It never ceases to amaze me that people still haven’t got the message that a CV is a targetted sales document, designed to sell them to a specific employer. Most CVs I see are a bit like […]

Ever wished you could play a musical instrument? I know I have. And next time round I tell myself I am coming back as a blues singer. So, with that in mind I have been having a bit of fun with this site … desktop blues .  Cool, eh?
Technorati Tags: blues, singing, […]

Just came across an article I wrote for Phoenix (the professional journal for AGCAS) in which I described the work I have been doing, using a case study approach to careers work, at the university where I work one day a week as a Careers lecturer. Having moved my blog to this new address I […]

I am always wary of going to conferences (I used to use them as a form of respite for me, years ago when working full time with 2 young children and I have never quite lost that ‘a conference is a short break with speakers’ feeling). But, as ever, the ACEG conference was well worth […]

The after dinner speaker was Bill Stott, the cartoonist, who was very entertaining. He illustrated his jokes with quick drawn cartoon, one of which was Mr Hartley, the woodwork teacher. According to Bill they don’t make teachers like that anymore - he wears a shirt and tie, a brown overall which always has a lots […]

This workshop looked at how the whole area of Personal Development might be taken forward in the curriculum. Curriculum areas such as PSHE, Careers, Citizenship, Work Related Learning, Enterprise Education and Financial Capability all contribute to this (and fight for timetable time) but there is a lot of overlap. I was looking forward to hearing […]

I attended this workshop, run by John Deacy from St Benedicts College in Colchester. This school is a Business & Enterprise specialist school, and also a Catholic School so it was interesting to see how keen they were to explore Enterprise through the Social Enterprise model. This is a model for business that is growing, […]

Next up was David Andrews OBE, one of the few men in England who can make Government policy in relation to CEG sound straight-forward, clear and simple to follow! He led us through a veritable forest of government papers (Youth Matters: Next Steps; Every Child Matters; 14 - 19 Education and Skills Implementation Plan; the […]