TEACHERS WHO ADVISE BOYS AND GIRLS IN CAREERS

Chronicle (Levin), 26 August 1947, Page 5

TEACHERS WHO ADVISE BOYS AND GIRLS IN CAREERS

"WELLINGTON, Aug. -25. Teachers who are carecr advisers in schools where they instruct ar-e attending the first training course for careers advisers to be held here. The course opened at the vocational guidance ceutre and is being attended by 50 men and women, who represent approxi mately half the North Island area — Wanganui, Taranaki, Hawke's Bay, Wellington and otlifer districts. Today those attendiiig the courSe, which i's sponsored by the Education Depart ment, wrere busy with lectures and diseussions and will be fully engaged till it concludes on Friday. Careers advisers who were unable to attend simi lar courses held in May in Auckland and Christchurch are also present. Miss C. E. Robi'iison, s'enior woinan vocational guidance officer in Christchurch,' addressed th'e teachers. The official appointment of careers advisers was made at the beginning of this year. They work in with voca tional guidance centres and there is a careers adviser on the staff of every New Zealand post-primary scliool of more than 200' pupils. In some schools where the roll is more than 400 boys and girls, there might be two sucli teachers appointed advisers, a man and woman.