VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE.

Manawatu Standard, Volume L, Issue 141, 14 May 1930, Page 2

VOCATIONAL GUIDANCE.

A visitor of considerable interest to employers, schoolmasters, parents and all those interested in the problems of vocational guidance, will be Mr G. M. Keys, M.A., Dip. Ed., of the Technical College, Christchurch, who will arrive in Palmerston North next Friday. Mr Keys has lrad a wide <xperience of vocational guidance, m England, Canada and America, where he spent some years studying the methods adopted in those countries. The Board of Directors of the local Y.M:C.A. are arranging a lunch-hour meeting on Friday to meet Mr Keys. His subject, “Vocational Guidance, and a Suggested Scheme of Organisation,” will bo dealt with on its importance, from the economic, social and educational point of view; lire result of research work done in Christchurch. The organisation in other parts of the world will also be discussed, as well as a practical scheme to suit local conditions. Each year the schools sav goodbye to hundreds of boys. A few of them step into jobs that are waiting for them; still fewer perhaps know what sort of a job they want, and are lucky enough to get it. There are those who do not know what they are going to do, beyond the fact that it has to be a job of some sort. Most of them get jobs, but it is probably a small percentage of cases that get the work for which they are most fitted. Mr Keys no doubt will have many constructive suggestions to make, and it is to be hoped that he will have a goodly representative gathering of citizens to listen to his address.