Devolution and Diversification - Symposium at CeGS 17 March 2006

27-March-2006

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DEVOLUTION & DIVERSIFICATION: Career Guidance Structures in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland

The Institute of Career Guidance hosted a symposium, which brought together five of the six authors who contributed to the ‘Devolution & Diversification edition of the British Journal of Counselling & Guidance (2006, Volume 34, pp1-91).

The aim of the BJGC symposium edition was to review, critically, the different structures of career guidance that are evolving in England, Scotland, Wales & Northern Ireland.  Expert observers in each of the four ‘home countries’ were commissioned to write a paper, which offers an analysis of key issues and of the challenges, which need to be addressed.

Overhead transparencies from each of the four presentations can be accessed from the main NGRF site 'what's going on where?' Devolution and Diversification.
Key challenges identified in discussions amongst participants included:

  • Quality standards – there is a plethora of standards, most of which are thought to be too rigid for the realities to which they are applied.
  • Universal & targeted services – the need to ration provision across age ranges requires the need for reliable measures to assess need (i.e. research & screening).
  • On-line & e-guidance services – require new ways of working and the need for different methods to evaluate quality.
  • Labour Market Information – there needs to be a clear specification for the collection and collation of LMI and practitioners need to understand better its use.
  • Employability and Educational reforms underway mean that career guidance is in danger of getting caught in the middle.
  • The impact of teacher training reforms – links required with CEG.
  • Impartiality – need to safeguard this aspect of career guidance services.

Lucy Marris; 27-March-2006 16:23:18; forum (1) help

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1 Printable / preview-able PDF versions of the presentations

I made a quick and dirty conversion of the powerpoint slides to PDF files on white backgrounds, suitable for printing. I'm posting them as attachments to this reply.

Thanks for posting the presentations rom last week's Derby symposium, Lucy. Since I personally prefer to read things on paper (and also because I do not have a legal copy of Microsoft Powerpoint :o), I converted them to PDF files on white backgrounds. The conversion is quick and dirty, but good enough.

You should also find that the "preview" feature is available for these files... check the listings above for the files to see if the quick and convenient "preview" link is present. (The preview link - when it works - lets you very quickly get a feel for the contents of a file before you download it). For the originally posted PPT files, no useful preview was available, so the system did not offer the link.

Mike Malloch, 29-March-2006 08:57:59 forum / discussion

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