The high cost of not training staff

There is an old training conundrum, where the CEO asks from the cost perspective "What if we [...] train our staff and they leave?...

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The enshittification of education

Successive governments in New Zealand - and probably world-wide - have failed to adequately invest in education. The training and education ...

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Career practitioners are invisible

Career development in Aotearoa is an “inchoate occupation”: in other words, we lack clarity as a ‘profession’ (Douglas, 2009, 2010, p. 25; ...

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Tertiary education's death by a thousand cuts

At the end of last year, a couple of opinion pieces crossed my desk about the function that universities are  supposed to perform in society...

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Academic publishing, open access, and profit

Having research papers hidden behind a paywall offends my sense of social justice, particularly in a place as small as Aotearoa New Zealand....

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How to plan PD needs?

We often think that we need "professional refreshment", so to speak, but how do we know what we need ? I think we are best to be...

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Helping students back into study

I have been thinking about the barriers for students coming back to study as older adults. These students all have an undergraduate degree i...

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Career practice in secondary schools

In Aotearoa New Zealand we tend to start to provide structures for the transition from secondary school student to the post-secondary stage ...

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Disruption in higher education

Technology has disrupted the 'traditional' job market. Whereas once we were employed in in long-term roles, geographically close to ...

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Finding LMI for university choice

Apparently, over 82% of ākonga feel they need more information regarding their desired academic institutions (Jafari & Aliesmaili, 201...

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Have you heard...?

When I am working with my students, I try to use only evidenced data, and to check that data carefully. So when a student suggested in a cla...

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The difference between education, training and development

So, what is the difference between education, training and development? Let's start by defining each of the terms, education, training a...

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Training career development professionals

The results of a 2021 survey of CDANZ and CATE career practitioners show that only  29% of  respondents  hold career-specific graduate or po...

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Professionalising and qualifying

It has been said that career development in Aotearoa is an “inchoate occupation”, lacking clarity as a ‘profession’ (Douglas, 2009, 2010, p....

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