Jackie Hartley’s BLOG

Just written an article, with this heading, for the up and coming ACEG journal, so thought I would post it here too.
‘I know you’ll think this is daft, but I .. (sob) ..I’m just really homesick, I want to go home.
I don’t think they’re daft, not at all. Just because they are looking forward to […]

We have just started sorting out what we are going to do about producing our new catalogue and a number of issues have come up.

Product costs - these have gone up quite a lot in the last 10 years and we have never put our prices up in all that time. Should we try to […]

Yet again, we have proof that making sure that kids eat healthy food has a real impact on their ability to perform well at school. According to an article in the Observer today …
Children who ate healthy school meals instead of packed lunches scored higher marks in tests, were less disruptive and concentrated longer in […]

So now we might be going to raise the school leaving age to 18. Alan Johnson, Secretary of State for Education says it is one of the most important matters facing his department. Gordon Brown is also keen for it to happen. Apparently they have been looking at the system in Canada where there is […]

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Attended a really excellent conference at the end of last week in Reading, run by the University Centre for Career Management Studies. There were lots of really good speakers including some of my favourites, Pauline […]

I have been trying to get my head into the new quality standards for IAG, as mentioned in my previous post. I don’t know if it is just me but I am finding this document a bit hard to digest. Although it seems to be saying the right sort of things, they don’t hang […]

Spent a nice afternoon speaking to the students on the DipCG at Manchester Met today. Although I was there to talk about using resources in careers work I ended up telling them my top tips for surviving in the wonderful world of careers work, as it relates to working in education and trying to get […]

I see that the National Quality Standards for Young People’s IAG are now up for consultation via the DfES website. You may remember me commenting on these after David Andrew’s York Conference and a quick look at them, after printing them off, seems to suggest that not a lot has changed since then. By way […]

I have been thinking about my New Year’s resolutions. I set myself some every year and try to achieve them. They tend to be more the ’setting myself a goal’ type than the ’stopping doing something’ sort. First though I try to work out how well I did on the previous year’s goals. Well last […]