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Offline Miss Demeanour

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Career advice for 7 year olds
« on: October 26, 2009, 03:15:09 PM »
Primary school children are to get careers advice from the age of seven under a new scheme to encourage them to develop aspirations early on in life.

Under plans drawn up by Schools Secretary Ed Balls, primaries will offer career-related learning, as well as opportunities to experience university life and the world of work, to children aged 7-11.

Mr Balls also outlined an ambition to provide careers advice through to the age of 18, as well as giving every young person access to a mentor who can guide them through the process of preparing for adult life.

If someone had asked me at 7 years old what I wanted to be ' when I grew up'   noooo:  I would have probably said a mermaid or  a princess ....I wonder how the careers advisor would have helped me on my way with that one  noooo: noooo: noooo:
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Re: Career advice for 7 year olds
« Reply #1 on: October 26, 2009, 05:20:39 PM »
Quote from: Miss Demeanor on October 26, 2009, 03:15:09 PM
Primary school children are to get careers advice from the age of seven under a new scheme to encourage them to develop aspirations early on in life.

Under plans drawn up by Schools Secretary Ed Balls, primaries will offer career-related learning, as well as opportunities to experience university life and the world of work, to children aged 7-11.

Mr Balls also outlined an ambition to provide careers advice through to the age of 18, as well as giving every young person access to a mentor who can guide them through the process of preparing for adult life.

If someone had asked me at 7 years old wanted I wanted to be ' when I grew up'   noooo:  I would have probably said a mermaid or  a princess ....I wonder how the careers advisor would have helped me on my way with that one  noooo: noooo: noooo:

This may explain the aversion to eating fish ~ too much like cannibalism  whistle: 
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Re: Career advice for 7 year olds
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2009, 05:23:50 PM »
Fish are friends not food  rubschin:
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Re: Career advice for 7 year olds
« Reply #3 on: October 26, 2009, 08:09:35 PM »
Quote from: Miss Demeanor on October 26, 2009, 05:23:50 PM
Fish are friends not food  rubschin:

Is that the same as saying you have some fishy friends?  whistle:
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Offline The Moan Ranger

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Re: Career advice for 7 year olds
« Reply #4 on: October 26, 2009, 08:11:06 PM »
See also Snoopy's comments about "babyfarms". The point of this "advice", doubtless, is to encourage them to work in some way for the government - thus ensuring future votes. You won't get a pension that big otherwise and seeing as something like 50% of the sproggs born these days are expected to live to 100+, a good pension is worth far more to them than to us "older" folk whose life expectancy is probably a quarter of a century lower.

Utter, utter wankers.  evil:
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