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THE City of Birmingham Education Committee has issued a report of a research on "Scientific Vocational Guidance and its value to the choice of employment work of a Local Education Authority". The whole research, carefully and competently carried out, has extended over a period of no less than eighteen years, its general object being to ascertain what value there is in using psychological methods in aiding young entrants into industry, commerce and the professions, by showing clearly at the outset the likelihood of success or failure in certain branches of employment. The report suggests that on the staff of a secondary school there should be at least one teacher competent to apply psychological tests, and that he or she should work in close co-operation with a specially qualified officer. The resulting records should be used from time to time to enable decisions to be reached as to the course of a child's instruction, and towards the end of the child's school life to enable the juvenile employment officer, co-operating with the head and with the trained teacher, to give reliable vocational guidance. The report, which includes the most elaborate details, may be obtained from the City of Birmingham Education Committee for 2s. 6d.
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Vocational Guidance. Nature 155, 629 (1945). https://doi.org/10.1038/155629b0
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