Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 30, 2023

Photo by Ingo Joseph on Pexels.com We have just received funding for a new PhD project entitled Educating people in deprived communities – What’s the problem represented to be. The project focuses on localities designated as ‘deprived’ by government initiatives such as the ‘opportunity areas’ or ‘levelling up’.

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Last week I posted an article on FE News in which I made some polite suggestions for what the forthcoming education select committee inquiry should say about career guidance. This is what I had to say… The Education Select Committee has recently launched a new inquiry into career education, information, advice and guidance.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Yestersday, I had the opportunity to present to the Tertiary Education Commission (TEC) in Wellington, New Zealand. The TEC is a Crown Agency which leads the Government’s relationship with the tertiary education sector in New Zealand and provides career services from education to employment.

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Let's Grow Leaders

DECEMBER 23, 2022

In this episode, Marisa Cleveland and Simon Cleveland draw on their combined forty years of experience in corporate, government, and higher education leadership to answer this question. Have you ever wondered how the most admired leaders live?

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International Coach Academy

OCTOBER 10, 2022

It implies having the freedom to meet the household’s day-to-day financial obligations and cash flow needs, be able to have resources for emergency needs, and as well have a reserve for future goals such as children’s education, retirement, vacations, and another life’s important milestones and necessities. What Is Financial Literacy?

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McKinsey

MARCH 22, 2018

But it could also improve education, fine-tune tax collection, and add 12 billion healthy-life years for the world’s population. Sure, productivity can save money.

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GetSmarter

APRIL 17, 2025

But its also a career facing a crisis; qualified and dedicated educators are in short supply. Forty-four million more teachers are needed around the world by 2030 to meet equitable education goals, according to UNESCO. Education Becoming a teacher starts with being a student. 1 Are you ready to rise to the challenge?

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 21, 2022

With a new Prime Minister and King, a controversial mini-budget, a plummeting pound and the hoopla of party conferences, even the most dedicated follower of politics might be forgiven for missing the start of the House of Commons Education Select Committees inquiry into Careers Education, Information, Advice and Guidance (CEIAG).

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 13, 2024

As they are the party most likely to form the new government it is important to think about what it means for the careers sector. Firstly the commitment to arbitrary fiscal rules may prove to be a serious limiter on the capacity of the government to act. This is a bit on the low side, but should be able to achieve something.

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Adventures in Career Development

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The select committee Select committee’s are designed to scrutinise government policy. They don’t really have a lot of power, but they do get to look deeply at different topics and then call government ministers and others in to answer questions. The Education Select Committee has had a long-standing interest in career guidance.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

While the Blunkett Report has no formal power it provides a very strong indication of the direction that the Labour Party is likely to travel on education and skills as it develops its manifesto and seeks to become the government. A future government should also build on the Gatsby Benchmarks e.g. starting career education earlier.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Where people are able to effectively manage their careers it helps governments to ensure that the education system works effectively and that the skills we develop in learning are useful in the workplace. It is time for careers education. It is time for careers education.

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International Coach Academy

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This is evidenced in Seligman’s work with education, his work as President of the American Psychologists’ Association, his worldwide collaboration, e.g., the Happiness & Its Causes , ICC Sydney, 2012, and the mandate for 1.1 million U.S. It offers a strengths test as a free public service: [link]. References.

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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 13, 2022

She hasn’t said a lot about career guidance, but I did find an intervention into a debate in 2011 while the then Conservative government were slashing and burning the existing careers system. Badenoch has said things about career guidance, but it is fairly standard junior minister defending the government’s position stuff.

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

This is the annual meeting between the government’s Higher Education and Skills Directorate (HK-Dir) and key stakeholders including employers, trade unions, regional leaders in career guidance and the professional association. An obvious message, but one which governments and policy makers need to be constantly reminded of.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 15, 2024

I started with the current government (pretty much ignores careers), then went to the Labour Party (not bad on career, but not so good on the wider economic and public sector picture). They were regularly in government until 1915, but then had a fallow period out of government until they propped up a Conservative government from 2010-2015.

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 24, 2024

They were deeply integrated into educational institutions. Whilst career services can and do work with adults, in the UK they have been tasked primarily with dealing with young people and education leavers. Career service funding in the UK tends to strongly prioritise education leavers and the prevention of youth unemployment.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

We heard some very encouraging things from the Department for Education (although there is still some considerable way to go with this). Although careers work has been pretty beleaguered for the last decade, there was a sense that the new government might offer better things. I felt that there was a very positive atmosphere.

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International Coaching Federation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2024

Dr. Alka Mittal, Member Administration of Capacity Building Commission, Government of India, and former CMD for Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (ONGC) Ltd., It is committed to the development of HR through education, training, research, and experience sharing.

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Adventures in Career Development

JANUARY 31, 2024

For those people who aren’t in UK higher education, this post might be a little strange, please feel free to skip. Why the UCU matters The UCU is the union for higher and further education workers in the UK. Even for those who are in UKHE the fact that there is an election going on might come as a bit of a surprise.

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McKinsey

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

To fully capture the productivity boost of automation, Indonesia’s government, business community, and educational institutions must work together in a concerted way to address skills transitions.

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 25, 2023

Earlier this week Kier Starmer set out his big vision for a Labour Government in what was trailed as a major speech. Break down the barriers to opportunity at every stage for every child, by reforming the childcare and education systems, raising standards everywhere, and preparing young people for work and life.

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Forbes Careers

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Companies such as Accenture, IBM, and the US government have relaxed or removed degree requirements, leading to debates on whether this signals the decline of traditional education or is just a short-term reaction to disruptive factors like the pandemic and skills crisis.

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Adventures in Career Development

OCTOBER 6, 2023

In it, David looks at the role of secondary school teachers in supporting careers education and guidance and considers how initial teacher education and continuing professional development could support teachers in this role. Career education and guidance is not part of the Core Content Framework (CCF) for ITT, but should it be?

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Adventures in Career Development

JUNE 11, 2024

The main proposal that the group has made is called the Career Guidance Guarantee.

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Adventures in Career Development

MAY 30, 2025

link] This is what I had to say… Tristram Hooley, a professor of Career Education at the university and a member of the University and College Union (UCU) said: “We don’t really think there’s a very strong rationale for the redundancies. The article has just come out and makes for interesting reading.

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International Coach Academy

SEPTEMBER 11, 2024

This area needs to be known to me and one where I want to educate myself more to assess current and future potential. My hypotheses are: Boards are changing in their role and the value they bring to stakeholders of the organizations they lead, from less governance to more strategic focus. Governance and 2. 32, 2021).

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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 2, 2024

There is lots to like for me in this manifesto, but of course the party are very unlikely to form the next government. There is also a recognition that the structure for people’s careers are getting more complex and that there is a need to respond to this through changes in the education system.

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Adventures in Career Development

DECEMBER 22, 2023

I spent a fair bit of the year arguing that people who worked in higher education deserved to have decent pay and not to get steadily poorer. If you type ‘what is radical education’ into a search engine, you end up on my answer to that question. 9 2023 has been a year of strikes and industrial unrest.

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Adventures in Career Development

MARCH 26, 2025

Vision and leadership national visions for guidance are clearly articulated in policy, supported by multiple government departments, and aligned to implementation plans. These six features of good practice can be summarised as follows. Read the report

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Vantage Circle

JULY 30, 2024

Unlike traditional ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) metrics, which often serve as external reporting tools, the TBLR Model is designed specifically for internal recognition purposes. Continuous Education: Provide ongoing training on the complexities of sustainability to prevent superficial understanding and actions.

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International Coach Academy

DECEMBER 6, 2023

ESG metrics (Environmental, social, and corporate governance) are now a key driver of corporate performance benchmarks and now there is much more focus on diversity and inclusion, psychological safety, and employee well-being.

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Adventures in Career Development

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The rich need to accept a smaller part of the pie so that we can all have access to the good life and so that we can provide the education, healthcare and welfare state that people need. We have two more years of this government and they are clearly not going to change things without a lot of pressure.

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Adventures in Career Development

FEBRUARY 18, 2023

Late yesterday afternoon we heard that the dispute had been paused because negotiations were going well and the five unions that represent workers in higher education were on the brink of a big break through. This will hopefully allow a lot of higher education workers to retire with dignity. So what is actually on the table?

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Adventures in Career Development

APRIL 30, 2025

Yesterday I had the opportunity to visit Sherwood Observatory as part of a meeting of local government, business and education stakeholders. We spent the morning talking about AI, automation and the future of work. We really benefitted from input from Professor Amin Al-Habaibeh from Nottingham Trent University who is an AI researcher.

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Adventures in Career Development

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Both are about working with clients, customers or students to help them to make positive steps in learning and work, both are usually (but not always) funded by the government and both can often be heard decrying the fact that their work is undervalued and poorly understood.

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Adventures in Career Development

JULY 18, 2023

We note that effective career guidance is associated with a range of economic and social benefits and argue that ultimately higher employment, better skills alignment, increased productivity and improved employee engagement pay off at the national level for government, in terms of a well-functioning economy and improved tax returns.

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