Occupational category – 5: Education, Training and Apprenticeship
These include careers in teaching (ranging from pre-school educators, primary and secondary school teachers, college tutors, tutors in post college institutions, university lecturers as well as instructors in training institutions. It also includes education administrators such as education officers and teachers in special education programmes. It involves planning, managing and providing education and training services, and related learning support services.
Education is the cornerstone of development, good governance and administration. Everything actually hinges on education and training.
Modern economy, governance and administration is conducted by educated people.
In fact, the quality of a nation is judged by the quality and focuses of its education and training programmes, 'no nation is better than the quality of its education', so is the current saying.
Education and training is also the most flexible or diverse career cluster, with the most clear career development ladders.
It offers excellent opportunities for students who like children, and are keen on the welfare and advancement of others. The skills for teaching and the subject know/edge of people engaged in this careers are easily transferable to many other areas, like administration, community works, counselling, social worker, politics, health, banking.
In fact teachers are the most diverse people. However, many students think that teaching is limited to working in a primary school or a secondary school. Many also think that it does not pay back. The issue is, many people who join this professional do not know how to utilize the wealth of skills and knowledge this profession or career cluster offer them.
Education and research are also inseparable. Economy, good practice, new technology, new therapies/treatment or medicine, etc. are researched and innovated in laboratories and workshops by researchers, who are mainly professors. This offers great opportunities for career development for most of our brilliant youth.
In fact, promising students in universities are monitored by faculty staff, included in the 'Dean's list' and upon successfully graduating, are sometimes retained by these faculties to teach others, help with research projects and also to give them opportunities to research further into their own innovative ideas, thus creating new knowledge, new things and solving human problems.
Appropriate Combinations at 'A' Level:
Any Arts combination for Education Arts or any Science combination for Education Science
Subjects at “O” Level
All 'O' Level subjects
Courses and Career Development Prospects
· BA. Education
· Bsc. Education
· B. Education
· Adult & Community
· Bachelor of Education (Vocation studies)
· Special Needs Education/Orthopedagogics
· Sign Language
Education is the cornerstone of development, good governance and administration. Everything actually hinges on education and training.
Modern economy, governance and administration is conducted by educated people.
In fact, the quality of a nation is judged by the quality and focuses of its education and training programmes, 'no nation is better than the quality of its education', so is the current saying.
Education and training is also the most flexible or diverse career cluster, with the most clear career development ladders.
It offers excellent opportunities for students who like children, and are keen on the welfare and advancement of others. The skills for teaching and the subject know/edge of people engaged in this careers are easily transferable to many other areas, like administration, community works, counselling, social worker, politics, health, banking.
In fact teachers are the most diverse people. However, many students think that teaching is limited to working in a primary school or a secondary school. Many also think that it does not pay back. The issue is, many people who join this professional do not know how to utilize the wealth of skills and knowledge this profession or career cluster offer them.
Education and research are also inseparable. Economy, good practice, new technology, new therapies/treatment or medicine, etc. are researched and innovated in laboratories and workshops by researchers, who are mainly professors. This offers great opportunities for career development for most of our brilliant youth.
In fact, promising students in universities are monitored by faculty staff, included in the 'Dean's list' and upon successfully graduating, are sometimes retained by these faculties to teach others, help with research projects and also to give them opportunities to research further into their own innovative ideas, thus creating new knowledge, new things and solving human problems.
Appropriate Combinations at 'A' Level:
Any Arts combination for Education Arts or any Science combination for Education Science
Subjects at “O” Level
All 'O' Level subjects
Courses and Career Development Prospects
· BA. Education
· Bsc. Education
· B. Education
· Adult & Community
· Bachelor of Education (Vocation studies)
· Special Needs Education/Orthopedagogics
· Sign Language
It is true that education is a really diverse field that offers more jobs than any other profession. The liberalization of the economy in 1993 allowed investors to open up private schools to work alongside government owned schools. This opened more opportunities for people to expand their investments to education. Some of them like St.Mary's Kitende and St. Lawrence Schools began humbly but look at them now.
ReplyDeleteWe all have a chance to do something in the education sector and its opportunities are unlimited. While studying Bachelor of Business Computing at the University I have found myself employed in a school environment and I am happy about it.