My name is Lynette Reid and I am a lecturer on the
Graduate Diploma in Career Development and Master of Career
Development at AUT University.
My colleague and I Dr Dale Furbish, are interested in
identifying exemplary New Zealand school career guidance and
development programmes. As CATE is on of the
professional organisation's for people working in the fields of
career and transition education, we are
hoping you can assist us.
We hope that CATE members can nominate as many school
career programmes as they wish that, in their
opinion, are exemplary. By exemplary, we mean those career
programmes that have a reputation for quality and effectiveness in
assisting students with career development. We are seeking
nominations for a range of school programmes in the various regions
of New Zealand, deciles, size and control (i.e. government,
private). As we are seeking nominations from other
sources as well, your nominations will be confidential unless you
indicate otherwise.
Once we receive nominations, we intend to contact the career
development leader (career adviser) at selected schools in order to
describe the programmes. We will collect information by
interviewing career development leaders at their schools and record
those practices that contribute to their programmes. This
information will be compiled in an index to be shared with other
career practitioners to disseminate examples of exemplary practices
and hopefully serve as a resource for the development of quality
career programmes throughout New Zealand. This project has
received ethics approval from AUT University Ethics Committee.
If you could provide this information to your National Executive
Committee and CATE Branch Chairs for consideration of suitable
nominations that would be fantastic. Alternatively, if you
wish us to contact key members of CATE directly we are more
than happy to do so. We are asking that we
receive nominations of schools with the appropriate contact
details such as contact name, email address and phone
number by September 16th to
enable us to work alongside school term dates.
