Author: Tariq Bitar

For any student having to chose those all important GCSE subjects, it helps if they have some idea of a career they may want to follow once they’ve got those in the bag.  Making thses choices as a teenager seems very daunting but in the grand scheme of things, getting the right exams early on can save time later.  Supposing for arguments sake that Jenny wants to go into law – not sure that she wants to go the whole hog and become a solicitor or barrister.  She may however fancy doing one of the many activities surrounding the solving of crimes, bringing the bad guys to prosecution etc.  There are many different career streams.  All of these have associated e-learning courses that can help with the initial training and formulating ideas.  Online courses are a brilliant way to get the gist of what would be involved and of course, will help when the itme comes to apply to uni for just such a career focused degree course.

When you have been working for a few years and then have to take maternity leave, this is often brings big changes t the way we look at our working priorities.  Lots of women think thye’ll just take a couple of weeks off, have baby, get a few sleepless nights and then whoo, back to work after 29 weeks.   It often does not work like that.  Once that bundle of joy has arrived, there is more to contend with than sleepless nights.  It’s a whole sunami of emotions and exhausting factors.    Not everyone can go back to work or even want to.   Many decide that a high flying career is not now for them and baby rearing is the thing – but with the need to have some earnings.   Other women find that the caring side of their nature needs more nurturing and that a career as a teaching assistant would suit them down to the ground.  There are many e-learning courses available to aid the process.  Teaching Assistant levels 2, 3, 4 can be bought in a bundle – to be completed in  your own time within broad timescales.   Maybe  you’ve had a career with special needs in a very hands on way before – how about taking a course on SEN within schools – this is becoming a vital role that schools need to fill and will be totally rewarding with the right course under your belt.

I had the somewhat dubious task of entertaining three youngsters for a couple of hours whilst their parents took part in a charity walk – I thought this was going to be a real challenge for me.  But no, the three bandidoes were an asolute delight and we spend the entire morning finding our way around their school online homework courses.  This was quite a eye opener for me.  I’ve not undertaken any course work, online or otherwise, for some time now.  The youngsters were so full of enthusiasm to show me their maths, English, Humaities and Sciences, we looked at all sorts of revision guides and each had little tests to have a go at.  By the time our final checks were completed, after the rather harder science, I was all for signing up for more – it really fired my brain and I felt superbly equipped to babysit three youngsters again – Or become a school teacher, if it’s really that much fun!