http://www.highflyerspublishing.co.uk/blog about working, writing, training in the careers guidance field Mon, 16 Jun 2008 21:49:46 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Surely everyone knows this? Maybe not. My stepson Graeme has just spotted this on one the blogs he follows and forwarded it to me. So far we’ve received about 80 applications to our call to hire a new web designer at 37signals. Thanks to everyone who’s applied. We’re beginning to get ... http://www.highflyerspublishing.co.uk/blog/2008/06/16/employers-dont-like-misspelt-job-applications/ At last it appears that someone up there in the ivory towers has realised that adults need careers guidance too. Well that is not strictly fair. We have got a system of providing adult guidance but it is fragmented, targeted and for many potential adult clients, hard to find. ... http://www.highflyerspublishing.co.uk/blog/2008/06/13/a-national-careers-service-for-adults/ Been doing quite a bit of training recently around the area of 'What is careers education and guidance?' I love doing this training - especially when the audience are people relatively new to the careers work area. It feels like I get a real opportunity to share with them some ... http://www.highflyerspublishing.co.uk/blog/2008/05/21/what-is-careers-guidance/ With all the recent changes affecting careers work (relegation of careers work to conference fixtures in the Economic Well Being Non-League championships) and the dessimation of the Connexions rebels by the Dark Lords of the Empire I have been harbouring delusions about dropping out. Well, not so much dropping out ... http://www.highflyerspublishing.co.uk/blog/2008/03/10/the-good-life-2/ So, at last, we have some national IAG standards that are easy to follow, relevant and doable. Not surprising when you know who wrote them. Why the Government didn't just tackle the whole thing this way right from the off I do not know. I wonder if Mouchel Parkman got ... http://www.highflyerspublishing.co.uk/blog/2008/03/10/national-iag-standards/ Finding it really hard to concentrate on writing. I have realised that I really hate short days and dark nights. At this time of year all I want to do is hibernate. I hate waking up in the dark (so frequently don't!) and as soon as the light starts to ... http://www.highflyerspublishing.co.uk/blog/2007/12/10/if-youre-feeling-sad-and-weary/ Am back to writing the U3 series and busy producing teaching materials around the topic of healthy eating. The more I read, think, attempt to write, the more I realise how easy it is to tell someone else they need to eat more healthily and how hard it is to ... http://www.highflyerspublishing.co.uk/blog/2007/12/06/do-as-i-say-but-not-as-i-do/ Getting back into writing I started researching where things were up to with the Personal Development Curriculum so headed off to the QCA website. What did I find? Well if you google PDC you get sent to the old QCA website 14 - 19 bit, with all the old stuff ... http://www.highflyerspublishing.co.uk/blog/2007/12/04/qca-qualifications-confusion-abounds/ .flickr-photo { border: solid 2px #000000; } .flickr-yourcomment { } .flickr-frame { text-align: left; padding: 3px; } .flickr-caption { font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px; } There is an old saying 'What you lose on the swings, you gain on the roundabouts'. So in these difficult times for careers publishers, we've definately found our swings so ... http://www.highflyerspublishing.co.uk/blog/2007/08/05/p1000456/ Things are not great in the careers publishing field at the moment, what with Connexions being disbanded and going back into Local Authorities or not as the case may be, and schools struggling to cope with the 14 - 19 developments, Diploma Gateways and the Personal Development Curriculum and well, ... http://www.highflyerspublishing.co.uk/blog/2007/07/23/taking-a-break/