Career conversations can be loaded with anxiety, but they can also serve as a vehicle to improving mental health wellbeing if approached in an integrated way. Wellbeing in schools has been in focus in recent years with the evident mental ...

From a very early age, children’s play involves trying adult job roles for size. In group games children often fight over roles that are deemed desirable, with clear ideas about what roles cut it – and which don’t – in ...

Careers education is typically completed in the secondary years of schooling, yet two education experts argue that introducing the subject in the primary years will foster more student engagement, empowerment and curiosity among younger students as they consider “who they ...

The state government is set to overhaul careers education in Victorian secondary schools, introducing careers workshops for students as young as Year 7, according to a recent article in The Age. My first reaction is that this initiative is long ...