We invite you to a webinar on February 03, 2022. The discussion will be around innovative approaches
- enabling individuals to develop realistic well-informed aspirations;
- recognising and addressing the career aspirations of individuals as well as the needs of employers and capacity of providers;
- enabling individuals and providers to respond to changing labour market needs;
- providing careers advice and guidance across the life-course and integrating it with lifelong learning;
- how to recruit, develop and motivate careers professionals who will be able to provide careers advice and guidance in the 21st century.
Time
10:00 - 11:30 CET
12:00 - 13:30 Moscow, Minsk
14:00 - 15:30 Yekaterinburg, Dushanbe, Ashgabat, Tashkent
15:00 - 16:30 Nur-Sultan, Bishkek
The working languages are English and Russian with simultaneous translation.
Registration at https://bit.ly/CNL_Feb3
Experts
Professor Ronald Sultana, Director of Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research, the University of Malta
Author of the books:
"Career Guidance for Emancipation: Reclaiming Justice for the Multitude" (2019);
"Career Guidance for Social Justice: Contesting Neoliberalism" (2018);
"Career Guidance and Livelihood Planning Across the Mediterranean: Challenging Transitions in South Europe and the MENA Region" (2017).
Professor Svetlana Sirmbard, Rector of the ADAM University, Kyrgyzstan
Project manager of the Higher School Teachers European Society HISTES, Hamburg. Founder of the Open European Academy of Economics and Politics, Prague. Ph.D.
Dr Zebo Isakova, Program Director at NGO, Uzbekistan 
In February 2021 her project "Youth for business" was recognized as the most successful in the Innovation Projects competition and awarded with a certificate of honor from the EU in Uzbekistan.
Marina Skiba, Rector of Financial Academy, Kazakhstan
Oksana Frolova, 
3rd year student of the University of World Economy and Diplomacy, Uzbekistan
Member of the UN Youth Advisory Council,
Volunteer of the youth agency of Uzbekistan (Yoshlar agentligi)
Challenges for education in Russia and Central Asia countries
In our fast-evolving world and labour markets, career guidance is needed more than ever to help young people manage their own career paths and transitions from one skill level to another and between professions.
Today in Russia and the countries of Central Asia, the main vector of development in the career guidance market is set by the states. The lack of specialists in specific areas, the bias of graduates' attention towards "hype" professions and the countries’ increased competitiveness in the field of innovations are forcing the states to invest budget funds in the vocational guidance of young people.
The most understandable and obvious is the artificial creation of demand for certain professions by regulating the number of budget-funded places in higher and secondary specialized educational institutions. Forecasts for a shortage of specific professions on the horizon from 5 to 20 years enable the authorities to make training in problem areas as accessible as possible. On the contrary, an overabundance of specialists in a particular industry in the long-term forces to redistribute budgetary places, thereby "discouraging" graduates from choosing these areas. This is an understandable working tool, but it does not solve the issue of professional self-determination of an individual, although it allows regulating the labor market.
According to the results of a study conducted by WorldSkills Russia with the support of the Ministry of Education, more than 70% of schoolchildren have no idea what they are going to do in life. And only 5% of the respondents have already decided on a profession. These figures indicate a systemic problem that must be addressed at different levels: state, market, society and family.
The experience of the ETF in this area is reflected in the International trends and innovation in career guidance - Volume I. This report explores career guidance policies and practices in the light of global challenges. It examines the mega-trends in career guidance – use of information and communication technologies, career-management skills, cooperation and coordination mechanisms, and the role of parents in young people’s career choices.
Yes, it's true. I started collecting the team of speakers from different layers of society. Zebo is the first one who confirmed participation, and she is a representative of NGO, not from education. Now I am waiting for a reply from a student (customer) - very active and socialized girl from Uzbekistan. And so on.