Careers

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On Friday and Saturday, March 15th and 16th, we shall be holding our fourth Careers Convention and Exhibition, starting at 2.00 p.m. on the Friday and 9.30 a.m. on the Saturday. On this occasion the theme will be "Further and Higher Education" and we shall cover as wide a field as possible of the educational opportunities which are available for boys from this school.

Thus we shall be dealing with university education, especially choice Of university and choice of university course and we shall be looking at the problem of whether university is always the best answer. Among the speakers in this section will be Mr. B. H. Holbeche, who will be remembered by many Old Peterites as Senior English Master and Housemaster of Queen's. We shall be looking at education through industry and through a profession, and here we will examine the training which is available in these two fields to show that it is possible to become professionally qualified without attending college or university.

We shall hear about sandwich courses and also about the courses available at technical colleges and the proposed polytechnics. By this means we shall learn more about the new C.N.A.A. degrees which these colleges are able to award in a wide range of subjects, possibly the most interesting being in business studies.

To round off the Convention Mr. J. Wren-Lewis, a well known speaker and theologian, who is engaged in research and development work at the head office of I.C.I., will discuss what lies beyond in the world of work. He is particularly well qualified to talk on this topic and should provide a very stimulating finale for the Convention.

As before, we are expecting some fifty employers to be represented at the Convention. Their exhibits should range over the whole field of careers and we have asked them particularly to show how their courses of training offer an education or are integrated with university or college education. At most of the stands there will be representatives who will be only too willing to talk informally to members of the school and their parents. We have found that this informal exchange of information and ideas can be of tremendous value to both sides.