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School Sixth Form

After taking your GCSEs and completing Year 11 you might be thinking of continuing your education by staying on at school. Lots of schools have sixth forms and you don't have to have attended the school in Year 11 in order to join it.

An Interview with a Bolton Social Worker

Name: Jason Hart

Job Title: Social Worker

Directorate: working for Adult Services (Older Peoples Social Work Team)

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Veterinary Medicine - There are More Career Choices Than You Expect

Caring for domestic animals isn�t the only choice for veterinary grads. Far from it.

Modelling Career Profile: Laura Foster - In The Frame

Laura Foster remembers how she got into modelling when she was still at school and what it was like juggling studies with photo shoots.

Knowsley Council & PCT � Health and Social Care

What sort of job roles do we have? we have lots of roles in health and social care including:

Bolton is a Great Place in Which to Live and Work.

Come on in... Meet the Family

Bolton is a distinctive and diverse town, just 20 minutes north of Manchester, with great countryside, great characters and a down-to-earth approach to life that makes people feel welcome and at home.

Working in the Public Sector

The public sector is large, diverse and includes a wide range of services and activities at both local and national level.

Working in Health and Social Care � A Good Choice?

What sort of work is it?

Working in health and social care is all about making a difference to people’s lives, whether you are working with children and families to improve life chances or with vulnerable adults who find life difficult because of disability, substance abuse, mental heath problems or frailty associated with aging.

Twenty Something Entrepreneurs

While many people dream of being the boss in their forties or fifties, City & Guilds has awarded qualifications to a whole host of twentysomethings who went on to make the dream a reality much earlier on. Here the awarding body profiles two success stories who reckon that vocational courses are the ideal preparation for setting up your own start-up.

Finding Out About Engineering

If you enjoy understanding how things work, solving problems or being creative then there is almost certainly an exciting and rewarding career that you could follow within the vast area of engineering. Unfortunately, far too many talented people ignore the huge range of opportunities available because they have a very narrow view of what engineering is all about. Don’t fall into that trap! You owe it to yourself to at least find out what engineering is all about.

Chemical Engineering...The Science of Success

Do you use a mobile phone? Do you wear trainers? Do you ’funk up’ your hair with wax or gel?

Did you know that the above products are reliant on chemical engineering? Here is something else that may surprise you – Chemical Engineers also save lives.

Creativity in Action: Chemistry and the Chemical Sciences:

Introducing life beyond exams

Chemistry is the study of substances, what they are made of, how they interact and what role they play in living things. In fact it is the study of all materials and is vital to every aspect of your lives. From the moment you are born and throughout your life you are surrounded by chemistry; in the air you breathe, the food you eat and the clothes you wear.

Career in Food Science ond Technology

Do you enjoy science for its own sake? If so, then a career as a food scientist may be for you. Or do you prefer to use your scientific knowledge to achieve other goals? If so, then you may be interested in a career as a food scientist or technologist.

What is a Research Scientist?

Smaart Girls talk to Yemisi Solanke, a BSc Hons in Applied Biology and Pharmacology Graduate from North London, about her role as a Research Scientist.

BT Profile - Rhiannon Warburton

Rhiannon Warburton, a BT project manager from Oswestry, Shropshire, speaks to Smaart Girls about her career and why choosing a BT apprenticeship was such a smart move.

Profiles - Carillion Construction Training

The most common image of the Construction Industry is of the slightly weathered, burley chap laying bricks on a new build site, or similarly constructing a roof or completing the finishing touches with the internal and external decoration. Headed and managed by an all male team.

Ikhlaq-Sulaman---BT-Apprentice

Ikhlaq Sulaman, a 23 year old a BT Customer Service Technician from Doncaster, talks to Smaart Talent about his job and why he chose BT’s apprenticeship scheme.

Commercial Training Schemes with BDO Stoy Hayward

After completing her A Levels, Anisa Mistry joined BDO Stoy Hayward’s Commercial Training Scheme in July 2003. So what made her choose an early start to her career over three years at university?

Breaking into Journalism... By Leila Warren

With any creative industry, there will always be hot competition for jobs and even courses that may lead onto to such jobs.

Journalism is certainly no exception to this….

Journalism consistently features in surveys of what jobs graduates would most like to do. So I have in put together a range of advice…from courses that you may want to embark on, to getting those creative juices flowing.

Careers with Chemistry

Life beyond exams � chemistry and the chemical sciences: creativity in action.

Chemistry is the study of substances, what they are made of, how they interact and what role they play in living things. In fact it is the study of all materials and is vital to every aspect of your lives. From the moment you are born and throughout your life you are surrounded by chemistry; in the air you breathe, the food you eat and the clothes you wear.

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