VOCATIONAL GUIDE.

Hauraki Plains Gazette, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 5212, 5 December 1927, Page 3

VOCATIONAL GUIDE.

A NEW DEPARTURE. AID TO PARENTS AND CHILDREN. The Education Departmeait has been authorised by the Minister of. Education (the HOn. R. A. Wright) to issue a pamphlet on vocational guidance.

The Minister has stated that the pamphlet would be given to all Standard VI. pupils in primary °chools, and would contain a description of, each type of post-primary school in the Dominion, with an indication of the courses of instruction provided there. The pamphlet would contain, also, a brief description of the avenues of employment open for boys and girls after they left-school, and a clear indication of the wages paid in connection with each occupation. “The aim of the pamphlet is to enable parents and teachers, first of all, to direct the child’s post-primary studies so that they will be most profitable in relation to probable future occupation,” said the Minister, “and, secondly, to give the parents and children an indication of the prospects in each occupation. The information has been compiled by an officer ofi, the; Education Department, acting in co-operation with the Labour Department. The pamphlet does not profess to deal with the matter exhaustively, and will be revised from year to year. It is considered that the information will be invaluable to parents, who are much in doubt as to what to do with their children- after they leave the primary’ schools.”