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The announcement by the government that children as young as seven are to receive careers education will have sent shudders down the back of all responsible careers professionals. We are already plagued by an educational system that encourages them, often via their parents, to make long term career decisions years before they are ready. We now seem destined to raise children who are expected to know what they want to do forty years hence even though they have not even lived a quarter of that time! (more…)