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Editorial

Editorial Alistair Inglis looks at how well Australian After five years at Swinburne University of universities are taking advantage ofthis Technology, theJournal islooking for a new system to disseminate information about home to support its editorial function. Since their courses. theJournal's inception in 1992, Swinburne University has provided office space, phone Good communication isan essential part and mail facilities, andother administrative ofsuccess inmany contexts, both within supports for the editorial team, Swinburne individual businesses and across international boundaries. Valerie Hoogstad willcontinue to provide these services until explores communication barriers by the last issue for 1996 is published. The editorial component oftheJournal willthen examining different cultural styles, barriers learning to raise awareness ofthese important life concerns. Workplace learning move to another institution/organisation in to communication and how to overcome issues are also central to Alistair Rylatt's Australia. The Australian Council for them. Areview ofresearch, policy and practice Learning unlimited book included in Educational Research willcontinue initsrole documents in relation to career guidance Reviews. as publisher and business manager, taking with thelong-term unemployed isprovided Careers in museums made a very good care ofthepublication process, subscriptions, advertising and associated inWendy Patton's Article, where she impression onitsreviewer, JohnKidman. tasks. outlines the potential place ofcareer Other publications reviewed relate to management strategies, the development Donald Super has hada profound impact guidance in case management models and argues for theinclusion ofcareer guidance and maintenance ofcareers libraries, and on thework ofall practitioners inthe in interventions with the long-term youth policy inAustralia. Publications from careers field. In this edition oftheJournal, unemployed. the National Centre for Vocational Jan Lokan writes a very fitting tribute to this energetic, generous andhelpful man who Although women's participation in higher Education Research arealso reviewed. contributed so much to the area ofcareer education has increased, they continue to Research Digest, which did not development. We arevery pleased to deliver be underrepresented in research-based appear in our last issue, hasbeen this special tribute to him on thesecond postgraduate study. Marilyn Prestage and reinstated. Ifyou are undertaking any research project, large or small, you can anniversary ofhis death. Anna Lichtenberg offer some explanations of this phenomenon andsuggestions to write an abstract for this section of the InherCase Study, Tanyah Nasir describes a program inthe Northern redress this imbalance. Journal. The idea is to help researchers in Territory designed to encourage Aboriginal Following on from their research Australia and overseas to network andlink andTorres Strait Islander students to reported in the Spring 1995 edition of the in to projects of mutual interest. achieve in theeducation system by Journal, Beryl Hesketh and Sonja Whiteley Remember that the project doesnot have completing Year 12 andentering higher reveal considerable inaccuracy in students' to have been completed. Research at any education. The program notonly involves estimates oftheir Tertiary Entrance Rank. stage from ideas on can be included, students andteachers, but includes parents, This inaccuracy in estimates caneffect their Careers Forum includes news from the family, the school community and thewider subject selections andtheir career plans, National Careers Forum, conference reports Aboriginal community. andneeds to be addressed bycareers andmany interesting forthcoming events. Employment outcomes ofgraduates have advisers when working with these students. We hope that most ofourreaders will been under close scrutiny bytertiary The Olympics have been at theforefront take time to fill out thebrief Survey institutions, government, employers andthe ofthe media lately, both with Atlanta and included with this issue. In order to students themselves. With the increasing the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. As well as maintain a high quality publication that demand for a smooth transition from training, career counselling isimportant for meets the needs ofcareers practitioners we tertiary study to theworkplace, institutions elite athletes, whose sporting careers can be need feedback from you, the reader. With areimplementing a number ofstrategies. relatively short. David Lavallee and the move ofthe editorial function to a new One approach, described byMartin Smith, colleagues have examined career transitions location comes theopportunity to has been to offer anindividual program, among elite Australian athletes. Their incorporate changes that ourreaders Inside running, coordinated bythe Careers findings relating to thecareer beliefs ofthis suggest. Thank you for taking the time to do Service. group are reported in their article. The this. Following on from theJournal's Special impact that athletes' reasons for retirement Feature inVolume 4 Number 3 on have on this process ismentioned in Meredith Shears computer-assisted career guidance Research Digest. Editor packages, the New Zealand developers of Careers and Employment Unit Ian Comford, James Athanasou and Swinburne University of Technology FUTURES describe thedesign, development Robert Pithers argue that careers PO Box 218 andimplementation of this computer-based counsellors have animportant role in the Hawthorn, Vic 3122 careers information system. promotion oflifelong learning. They need to Tel.: (03) 92148023 The importance oftheWorld Wide Web disseminate information about the Fax: (03) 9214 8447 e-mail: Mshears@swin.edu.au as aninformation source is ever increasing. maintenance ofskill currency and lifelong Australian Journal of Career Development, Wint,er 1996 http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian Journal of Career Development SAGE

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Alistair Inglis looks at how well Australian After five years at Swinburne University of universities are taking advantage ofthis Technology, theJournal islooking for a new system to disseminate information about home to support its editorial function. Since their courses. theJournal's inception in 1992, Swinburne University has provided office space, phone Good communication isan essential part and mail facilities, andother administrative ofsuccess inmany contexts, both within supports for the editorial team, Swinburne individual businesses and across international boundaries. Valerie Hoogstad willcontinue to provide these services until explores communication barriers by the last issue for 1996 is published. The editorial component oftheJournal willthen examining different cultural styles, barriers learning to raise awareness ofthese important life concerns. Workplace learning move to another institution/organisation in to communication and how to overcome issues are also central to Alistair Rylatt's Australia. The Australian Council for them. Areview ofresearch, policy and practice Learning unlimited book included in Educational Research willcontinue initsrole documents in relation to career guidance Reviews. as publisher and business manager, taking with thelong-term unemployed isprovided Careers in museums made a very good care ofthepublication process, subscriptions, advertising and associated inWendy Patton's Article, where she impression onitsreviewer, JohnKidman. tasks. outlines the potential place ofcareer Other publications reviewed relate to management strategies, the development Donald Super has hada profound impact guidance in case management models and argues for theinclusion ofcareer guidance and maintenance ofcareers libraries, and on thework ofall practitioners inthe in interventions with the long-term youth policy inAustralia. Publications from careers field. In this edition oftheJournal, unemployed. the National Centre for Vocational Jan Lokan writes a very fitting tribute to this energetic, generous andhelpful man who Although women's participation in higher Education Research arealso reviewed. contributed so much to the area ofcareer education has increased, they continue to Research Digest, which did not development. We arevery pleased to deliver be underrepresented in research-based appear in our last issue, hasbeen this special tribute to him on thesecond postgraduate study. Marilyn Prestage and reinstated. Ifyou are undertaking any research project, large or small, you can anniversary ofhis death. Anna Lichtenberg offer some explanations of this phenomenon andsuggestions to write an abstract for this section of the InherCase Study, Tanyah Nasir describes a program inthe Northern redress this imbalance. Journal. The idea is to help researchers in Territory designed to encourage Aboriginal Following on from their research Australia and overseas to network andlink andTorres Strait Islander students to reported in the Spring 1995 edition of the in to projects of mutual interest. achieve in theeducation system by Journal, Beryl Hesketh and Sonja Whiteley Remember that the project doesnot have completing Year 12 andentering higher reveal considerable inaccuracy in students' to have been completed. Research at any education. The program notonly involves estimates oftheir Tertiary Entrance Rank. stage from ideas on can be included, students andteachers, but includes parents, This inaccuracy in estimates caneffect their Careers Forum includes news from the family, the school community and thewider subject selections andtheir career plans, National Careers Forum, conference reports Aboriginal community. andneeds to be addressed bycareers andmany interesting forthcoming events. Employment outcomes ofgraduates have advisers when working with these students. We hope that most ofourreaders will been under close scrutiny bytertiary The Olympics have been at theforefront take time to fill out thebrief Survey institutions, government, employers andthe ofthe media lately, both with Atlanta and included with this issue. In order to students themselves. With the increasing the 2000 Olympics in Sydney. As well as maintain a high quality publication that demand for a smooth transition from training, career counselling isimportant for meets the needs ofcareers practitioners we tertiary study to theworkplace, institutions elite athletes, whose sporting careers can be need feedback from you, the reader. With areimplementing a number ofstrategies. relatively short. David Lavallee and the move ofthe editorial function to a new One approach, described byMartin Smith, colleagues have examined career transitions location comes theopportunity to has been to offer anindividual program, among elite Australian athletes. Their incorporate changes that ourreaders Inside running, coordinated bythe Careers findings relating to thecareer beliefs ofthis suggest. Thank you for taking the time to do Service. group are reported in their article. The this. Following on from theJournal's Special impact that athletes' reasons for retirement Feature inVolume 4 Number 3 on have on this process ismentioned in Meredith Shears computer-assisted career guidance Research Digest. Editor packages, the New Zealand developers of Careers and Employment Unit Ian Comford, James Athanasou and Swinburne University of Technology FUTURES describe thedesign, development Robert Pithers argue that careers PO Box 218 andimplementation of this computer-based counsellors have animportant role in the Hawthorn, Vic 3122 careers information system. promotion oflifelong learning. They need to Tel.: (03) 92148023 The importance oftheWorld Wide Web disseminate information about the Fax: (03) 9214 8447 e-mail: Mshears@swin.edu.au as aninformation source is ever increasing. maintenance ofskill currency and lifelong Australian Journal of Career Development, Wint,er 1996

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