CAREERS The Easter holidays seem to be the most popular time for the large number of careers courses for Public Schoolboys, and this year there will be the usual wide variety of Short Works Courses. Details about these should be in the Careers Room by the end of January. Two other courses are probably not so well known. The first is the Ashridge Course, to be held this year at Ashridge College from Tuesday, 18th April, until Friday, 21st April. This course is designed mainly for arts boys interested in non-technical careers and the theme of the next course will be "Some Careers in Administration". The second course is entitled "Manchester—An Introduction to Industry", and is to be held from Monday, 10th April, until Saturday, 15th April. The programme is designed to give a picture of manufacturing industry in general, by a combination of lectures, discussions and visits to firms in the Manchester area. Though it is mainly a technical course, openings for non-technical boys will be fully covered. Both courses cost £6, but are extremely good value, because they bring the boys taking part into contact with a very wide range of activities and people, including those in top management. Journalism is a career about which there are many misconceptions, and probably one of the most common is that the only worthwhile openings are in Fleet Street. Recently I met representatives of the Westminster Press, who control a large number of provincial morning, evening and weekly papers, and they were at great pains to stress that a very satisfying career can be made in provincial journalism. The Westminster Press has a very well organised training scheme which each budding journalist joins after he has served six months' probation. When he is fully qualified he is then in a position to move around from paper to paper within the Westminster Press or, of course, he may branch out into some other Group. It is important to realise that it is impossible to become a Fleet Street journalist without prior provincial experience, certain confirmation of the high standard of training in the provincial press. ,
Following this meeting a small party of Senior boys was shown round the offices and works of the "Yorkshire Herald" and "Evening Press". We saw the reporters and sub-editors at work, watched the news coming in on the teleprinters and followed the back page of the day's City edition of the "Press" through from setting-up to the actual newspaper itself. It was a most interesting and impressive visit, and we are very grateful to the Editor-in-Chief for making it possible. K.G.C.
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