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Science careers not only for boffins, says Prof Brian Cox

by Rajdeep
written by Rajdeep

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Science careers are not “boring or only for boffins”, says Prof Brian Cox.

The physicist and TV presenter says it annoys him “that people still have these perceptions”.

Prof Cox has lent his support to Engineering Open House Day where major engineering organisations open their doors to the public.

The aim of the event, at the end of the first full week of the school holidays, is to boost children’s enthusiasm for science and technology subjects.

More than 20 organisations threw open their doors to allow families a free inside view of how they use technology on an everyday basis.

The events ranged from a behind-the-scenes tour of London’s Crossrail right down to the platform level 30m below the surface, to a ride on an articulated truck at the Caterpillar test quarry at Peterlee in County Durham.

Organisers at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET) believe up to 1,500 parents and children aged eight and above, have taken part, in venues across England and Scotland.

Events included:

  • a glimpse backstage at the National Theatre in London, to see the engineering behind top shows
  • a chance to see how the Sellafield nuclear power plant uses robot arms and computers
  • a go at the BBC Microbit coding challenge
  • a look behind the scenes at how TV satellites work.

An IET survey of more than 1,000 primary age children, published on Friday, suggests more than two-thirds enjoy science, technology and maths subjects.

But too few young people continue to study these subjects after 16, says the IET.

It is crucial that parents support their children, particularly girls, if they show an interest in science, technology, engineering and maths, according to IET president Naomi Climer.

“Some parents have told us they do not feel equipped with enough knowledge and this plays a part in why kids are not encouraged at home about science and engineering jobs. We have to change that.”

Prof Cox added: “I think it’s really important that young kids and their parents can get an insight into what engineering is all about – and understand its connection with so many things that interest them like music, entertainment and space discovery.”

[Source:- BBC]

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Education

Careers advice: Downgrade schools with poor service, MPs urge

by Rajdeep
written by Rajdeep

Teacher and pupil in lab

Schools offering substandard careers advice should be downgraded in Ofsted inspections, MPs have said.

Poor careers provision in England’s schools was depriving young people of the chance to consider job options and harming the economy, the MPs said.

Ministers must incentivise improvement, the Commons Sub-Committee on Education, Skills and the Economy concluded.

But head teachers’ leaders said a “big stick” would not solve “severe problems” in the careers advice system.

The report says: “We recommend that Ofsted introduce a specific judgement on careers information advice and guidance for secondary schools, and set clear criteria for making these judgements.

“The Common Inspection Framework should be amended to make clear that a secondary school whose careers provision is judged as ‘requires improvement’ or ‘inadequate’ cannot be judged as ‘outstanding’ overall.

“Likewise a secondary school should be unable to receive an overall judgement of ‘good’ if its carers provision is judged to be ‘inadequate’.”

‘Counterproductive’

The report, the first from the sub-committee, which was set up last year, also urges the government to untangle the “unruly” and “complex” web of organisations, service providers and websites overseeing and offering careers advice and put a single minister in charge.

It adds that a host of policy changes, initiatives and new bodies introduced in recent years have failed to make serious improvements in careers advice and “some have proved counterproductive”.

“Too many young people are leaving education without the tools to help them consider their future options or how their skills and experiences fit with opportunities in the job market,” says the MPs.

“This failure is exacerbating skills shortages and having a negative impact on the country’s productivity.”

They want better work experience for all young people and urge up-to-date local information be provided to schools and colleges from businesses through Local Enterprise Partnerships.

Neil Carmichael, who chairs the Education Committee, said it was “concerning that so many young people are being failed by the guidance they receive”.

“Careers advice should be a core part of a young persons schooling – but at the moment it is little more than a poorly thought out add-on,” he said.

Iain Wright, who chairs the Business, Innovation and Skills Committee, said initiative after initiative on careers guidance had “rained down from government, creating a confusing and costly mess when what we really need is a clear picture”.The report says the imminent publication of the government’s new careers strategy would be a good opportunity to “finally get careers provision right”.

But Malcolm Trobe, interim general secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said it was “disappointing that the committee had reached for the big stick of Ofsted”.

Severe problems in the existing careers system urgently needed sorting out and school budgets were frozen and under severe pressure, said Mr Trobe.

“We agree that high-quality careers advice is vital to young people and the economic future of the country, but it is pointless to introduce yet another accountability measure without first addressing these problems,” he said.

And Russell Hobby, general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said the “blunt tool of inspection” was not an effective way to drive improvement in careers guidance.

Education and childcare minister Sam Gyimah said ministers were aware of huge variations in careers guidance.

Mr Gyimah promised the government’s careers strategy, to be published later this year, would “provide a roadmap” for improvement.

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News Update

Healthcare Administration Degree For Rewarding Healthcare News Today Careers

by Loknath Das
written by Loknath Das

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A vocation in healthcare news today has for some time been related with specialists and attendants in their fresh white outfits conveying consideration to patients. Be that as it may, there is a whole workforce that capacities energetically, far from the glaring lights, to help these essential parental figures and guarantee the smooth conveyance of healthcare.

 

Among these men and ladies are the healthcare executives or chiefs on whose shoulders rests the duty of overseeing and running a healthcare association.

 

The Department of Labor portrays the everyday capacity of a healthcare chairman as arranging, coordinating, organizing, and regulating the conveyance of healthcare. At the end of the day, they are the ones who deal with the managerial and business parts of running an association, so the healthcare suppliers can do only that – give care to the patients.

 

Why Healthcare?

 

In the event that you are the intersection of picking a vocation, at that point this is as energizing a period as any to get a healthcare organization degree and enter this calling. Pages after pages have just been composed about how a maturing populace has prompted a sharp increment in the interest for healthcare experts.

 

As per the Department of Labor, 10 of the 20 quickest developing occupations are identified with healthcare. Presently, that is an amazing figure by any measure of standards.* Healthcare organization itself is anticipated to develop at a quicker than normal pace and the work of healthcare heads and chiefs is relied upon to grow 16 percent by 2018.**

 

Yet, great openings for work and appealing pay are by all account not the only motivations to seek after a healthcare organization degree. The business is additionally experiencing an energizing stage as advance innovation gets incorporated with the healthcare conveyance framework and administrative condition turns out to be more intricate. The activity of a healthcare director has turned out to be all the more difficult in the current years.

 

Instruction and Training

 

On the off chance that you imagined that you have to put in six to seven years of school instruction to end up a healthcare executive, reconsider. Fortunately intrigued competitors can enter the calling with a four year college education in healthcare organization.

 

Since healthcare chiefs should be acquainted with administration standards and practices, an unhitched male in healthcare degree is intended to show understudies the clinical and business parts of dealing with a healthcare office via preparing them in administration standards, key arranging, asset administration, initiative aptitudes, and other office systems and therapeutic phrasing.

 

Graduates with a single guy’s healthcare organization degree start their professions as clerical specialists or partner office heads in bigger doctor’s facilities. Little healing facilities or nursing offices may enlist them as office heads.

 

Business Opportunities

 

With such huge numbers of healthcare offices jumping up to give care to a maturing populace, healthcare managers may discover work in an extensive variety of settings. These incorporate doctor’s facilities, facilities, office of doctors, nursing care offices, private care offices, home healthcare offices, government healthcare offices, group mind offices, recovery focuses, and so on.

 

The Department of Labor has characterized healthcare managers as either pros or generalists. Pros are accountable for a particular clinical division and are called clinical chiefs. They are prepared or experienced in the particular clinical territory that they oversee.

 

Generalists, then again, deal with a whole office or a framework inside an office. In expansive offices, they function as right hand chairmen supporting the best overseer in the running of different healthcare divisions.

 

In littler offices like nursing homes or specialists’ workplaces, healthcare chairmen are typically in charge of doing the everyday activities like overseeing faculty, taking care of accounts, enlistment, and so on.

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