Rotherham teenagers are wannabe teachers
TEACHING was the most searched for career on a Rotherham education firm’s website in the last school year.
Software specialists U-Explore—Maltby Academy’s lead sponsor—revealed that youngsters were still aiming high in the job market.
Nearly a fifth of searches on the Templeborough company’s site were for teacher, followed by vet and doctor.
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Hide AdManaging director James Frith said: “It’s great to see such high aspiration shown. Media and medicine are the two most prominent sectors and jobs like lawyers, doctors, pilots and police all score highly as careers young people want to do.”
The top ten in full for 2010/11 was:
- 1. Teacher (18 per cent)
- 2. Vet (13)
- 3. Doctor (12)
- 4. Police (11)
- 5. Army (11)
- 6. Lawyer (9)
- 7. Pilot (8)
- 8. Barrister (6)
- 9. Actor (6)
- 10. Chef (6)