Career Guidance

‌Career Guidance

CAREER guidance is very important in schools. All schools should be invited when these outreach programmes are held. All schools should make it a point that all qualifying learners attend those events. It cannot be business as usual when students miss out on such opportunities.

It is therefore necessary for learners to have basic knowledge of various careers, to have a clear focus as they learn to move towards choosing appropriate careers. It is painful to regret having chosen the wrong career when the deed has already been done. Students might want to know the following words:

The district under the jurisdiction of a bishop is a diocese. The principal church under a diocese is a cathedral. The passage between the pews in a church –aisle. On who leads people to their seats in the church is a verger. The money given by the congregation at a church service –offertory. The ceremony at which a man becomes a priest – ordination.

A chapel or vault beneath a church usually used for the burial of the dead – crypt. A room attached to the church in which vestments are kept and in which officials meet is a vestry. A rich covering carried over a priest in a procession is a canopy. A council of clergyman is a synod.

Words pertaining to marriage: One who has only one wife or husband at a time is a monogamist. The practice of having more than one husband or wife at the same time is polygamy. A woman who has more than one husband at a time is a polyandrist.

One engaged to be married is to betrothed or affianced. Proclamation of intended marriage are banns.

To run away with a lover in order to get married secretly is to elope.

Sciences and arts – an institution for education in the arts and sciences is a polytechnic. The study of heavenly bodies and the earth in relation to them is astronomy. The science of land management is agronomics. The science of family descent is genealogy.

The study of ancient buildings and prehistoric remains is called archaeology. The art of making maps and charts is cartography.

The art of metalworking is metallurgy. The science of measuring is called mensuration. The science of triangles is trigonometry.

The art of preserving skins is taxidermy. The science of colours is chromatics. The art of elegant speech or writing is rhetoric.

The art of effective speaking and reading is elocution.

The art of telling the future by the study of stars is astrology and the study of mankind is anthropology. The science which deals with the varieties of the human race is ethnology. The science of the structure of the human body is anatomy. The science which deals with how the human body works is physiology.

The study of the human mind is psychology. The study of physical life or living matter is biology. The study of plants is botany.

The natural history of animals is zoology. The study of rocks and soils is geology. The study of birds is ornithology. The study of eggs is called ology. The study of mountains is called orology.

The medical world: A disease affecting many persons at the same place and time is an epidemic. A disease widely epidemic is pandemic. A disease confined to a particular district or place is said to be endemic. A disease affecting widely scattered groups of people is said to be sporadic. A substance used in surgery to produce unconsciousness is chloroform. Any medicine which produces insensibility is anaesthetic.

A medicine to counteract poison is known as an antidote. An instrument used by physicians for listening to the action of the heart and lungs is a stethoscope. Free or exempt from infection is immune. Bad foul-smelling breath is known as halitosis.

Confinement to one place to avoid the spread of infection is quarantine. A cure for all diseases is a panacea.

One who is recovering from illness is convalescent. Gradual recovery from illness is convalescence. Want or poorness of blood is anaemia. Affecting the lungs – pulmonary. A substance to keep down evil smells is a deodorant. To disinfect by smoke is to fumigate. The mosquito which transmits malaria is called anopheles.

Death; Fainting or death due to being deprived of air is asphyxia. The dead body of a human body is a corpse. The dead body of an animal is a carcass. A place where dead bodies are temporarily placed is a mortuary. A place where the bodies of persons found dead are placed for identification is a morgue. Disposal of a dead body by burning is cremation.

To preserve a dead body from putrefaction is to embalm. To dig up a grave is to exhume. A vehicle for taking dead bodies to the cemetery is a hearse.

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