Vocational Guidance
Sir,—Vocational guidance, apart from the publicity side which requires only clerical skills, is concerned with clinical psychology and social work, professions which ate anathema to the State Services Commission. So the officers have no true professional status, and, along with those ini the psychological service and child welfare divisions, must keep their eyes on teaching and inspectorial posts for promotion. In an attempt to arrange a lecture on voce-
tional guidance, I found no firm which was not unfriendly to the service, an attitude not justified by the valuable work done by the present staff, but prompted by the policy over the years. While the vocational guidance service is properly under the Department of Education, it is in an invidious position as an agent of the State Services Commission, itself a strong competitor on the labour market, yet with the greatest reluctance to accommodate problem cases.—Yours, etc., VARIAN J. WILSON. December 18, 1965.
Permanent link to this item
https://paperspast.natlib.govt.nz/newspapers/CHP19651221.2.140.3
Bibliographic details
Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 20
Word Count
155Vocational Guidance Press, Volume CIV, Issue 30939, 21 December 1965, Page 20
Using This Item
Stuff Ltd is the copyright owner for the Press. You can reproduce in-copyright material from this newspaper for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons BY-NC-SA 3.0 New Zealand licence. This newspaper is not available for commercial use without the consent of Stuff Ltd. For advice on reproduction of out-of-copyright material from this newspaper, please refer to the Copyright guide.
Acknowledgements
This newspaper was digitised in partnership with Christchurch City Libraries.
Log in