Careers Advisers To Attend Lincoln Course

Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30827, 12 August 1965, Page 19

Careers Advisers To Attend Lincoln Course

Careers advisers (full-time secondary school teachers with these extra duties) and newlyappointed vocational guidance officers from all parts of the South Island and the southern half of the North Island will attend a course on vocational guidance at Lincoln College for a week from August 23. It has been organised by the Christchurch Vocational Guidance Centre. “These teachers are our strong right arm in the schools, always available to pupils to advise on educational and vocational preparation for careers,” said the district vocational guidance officer (Mr W. J. Boyd) yesterday. Vocational guidance officers regularly visited all schools, and pupils regularly visited the centre but, with the growth in numbers, every case could not be followed up by the same officer. Careers advisers, knowing pupils personally in the schools and having detailed knowledge of their progress, were well equipped to help, and they could always call the centre for consultation. But, said Mr Boyd, careers advisers needed to be kept abreast of new developments in counselling and also to be brought directly in contact with employers in many fields. This was the point of the course.

There would be addresses on concepts of guidance, careers advice, principles of interviewing, case histories, bursaries, what the adviser needed to know about the child, and meetings with representatives of a large number of employer organisations and visits to a variety of work premises. Specialist advisory services would also take part. Recruits To Attend

Because so much of the work was common to both careers advisers and vocational guidance officers, Mr

Boyd said, the vocational guidance service would take the opportunity to send about 15 of its new recruits to the course so that they could profit from the help of experts and also meet both careers advisers and employers. Mr S. S. P. Hamilton, Regional Superintendent of Education, will open the course. Vocational guidance officers will take most sessions, but visiting speakers will be Mr E. R. Hounsell, University of Canterbury liaison officer, Mr D. MeSweeney, lecturer in rural education at Lincoln College, Mrs L. Kennedy, national vocational guidance training officer, and the new chief vocational guidance officer (Mr G. D. Innes).