CAREER GUIDANCE AND CAREER EDUCATION IN VET – RELEVANCE, GOOD PRACTICE, ENE MEMBERS’ INTERESTS AND NEEDS

This meeting aims to unveil the elements in achieving excellence in career guidance in a context of (1) great vertical and horizontal skills mismatch in most ETF partner countries that stresses the importance and relevance to work with potential students and students on career development, and (2) the twin digital and green transitions impacting on learning and the labour market. Besides highlightening the relevance of career guidance for VET centres overall and in particular COVEs, the webinar will look at the areas COVEs will have to focus on to deliver excellent career guidance:

Quality of services and quality assurance which ranges from, inter alia, inputs like well-trained practitioners, monitoring and evaluation, partnership coordination, to catering for all students.

Career information including for instance the use of tracer studies feeding career information with real life pathway information.

Career counselling including assessments that support self-appraisal and career exploration as well as counselling for disengaging learners, potential dropouts, former NEETs placed into VET.

Career education looking at models of integrating career learning into VET from career learning across the curriculum as part of all subjects to separate career education as subject and extra-curricular activities; and looking at content and pedagogy including methods for assessment of outcomes of career education programmes

Employment counselling as means to facilitate the school-work transition e.g. through job placement.

Cooperation and coordination internally amongst teachers, between teachers and career guidance practitioners, and externally with public employment services, employers/employer organisations, trade unions, parents and caretakers, other VET schools, youth/ social workers, etc.

Career guidance already featured in the ENE self-assessment survey ("specialised careers advice for adults"), and in the WBL baseline study (“counselling and guidance on WBL to (potential) students”). Building on this, the meeting aims at

Putting the role of VET centres in career guidance and education prominently on the ENE agenda to lay a basis for planning from 2022 onwards
Sharing good practice
Exploring the interests and needs of ENE members in general and in relation to existing areas of cooperation from smart specialisation, lifelong learning and entrepreneurial VET centres, to the green and digital transitions

The meeting was conducted on Zoom with simultaneous interpretation to Russian and French.

Related relevant material:

Coaching 1 Latvian VET Association in the framework of the ENE WBL Working Group– PPT in RU: https://failiem.lv/u/gvsmc74ef
Coaching 1 Latvian VET Association - PPT in EN
Slides provided by the speaker Ilze Brante : PPT Ogre Technical School

Links provided by the speaker Jennifer McKenzie from Ireland:

https://www.ncge.ie/resource/ncge-whole-school-guidance-framework

https://www.ncge.ie/resources

https://www.ncge.ie/resource/guidance-related-learning-resources-junior-cycle

https://www.ncge.ie/guidance-further-education

Links provided by the speaker Ronald Sultana from Malta:

Handbook: https://www.google.at/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&ved=2ahUKEwj27-LggtjwAhVOiqQKHZTNCVQQFjAJegQIGxAD&url=https%3A%2F%2Fcica.org.au%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2FEnhancing-the-quality-of-career-guidance-in-secondary-schools.pdf&usg=AOvVaw1G-DKal5e6E6Fdrj2Qk2B7

Website of project: IO3 – Handbook – Enhancing the Quality of Career Guidance in Secondary Schools – My Future (myfutureproject.eu)

Links provided by the speaker Peter Weber from Germany:

The NICE Network (now NICE Foundation) developed in 2016 Standards for the training and competence of career practitioners:

http://www.nice-network.eu/.cm4all/uproc.php/0/Publications/NICE%20Hand…

http://www.nice-network.eu/pub/