Remote communication (through ICT and telephones) have influenced guidance work in signicant ways. They have impacted on the labour market effecting guidance practitioners and their clients alike. ICT offers an information resource through useful websites as well as being a means of delivering information advice and guidance via email.  Telephone offers the potential for human contact 'at a distance' that often also taps in to ICT resources.

E-guidance and Telephone Helplines

This section brings together contributions which examine e-guidance and telephone helplines, together with associated resources

Information and computer technology in Careers Guidance

Getting from where we are to where we might be, a link to an article that reviews the way the use of ICT has developed so far and its potential for the future.

BECTA - British Educational Communications and Technology Agency

Becta is the Government's key partner in the strategic development and delivery of its information and communications technology (ICT) and e-learning strategy for the schools and the learning and skills sectors. This section will take you to various resources and links within the BECTA website.

Web based resources for guidance

One major impact of the world wide web, has been the plethora of resources now accessible on line. This section will take you to an internal link of 'favourite websites' from the resources section of the Improving Practice are of the website, together with a link to a Guidanceforum list of web-based resources available in the UK to guidance practitioners working with adults.

Website design

Resources to support the design of websites for guidance