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International Perspectives on Career Guidance Tony Watts
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Policy Reviews OECD: 14 countries World Bank: 7 middle-income countries ETF: 11 EU candidate countries EC: all existing EU member-states ETF: West Balkans; Middle East Plus others In total, 55 countries
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European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN) Career management skills Access Quality and impact evidence Co-operation and co-ordination Resource Kit for Policy-Makers Focus for 2013-14: implementation at member-country level
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All-Age Services Strong arguments in favour: - cost-effectiveness; - cost-effectiveness; - enables young people to be familiarised with services they can continue to use; - enables young people to be familiarised with services they can continue to use; - avoids rigid and artificial cut-off points, in midst of prolonged transitions - avoids rigid and artificial cut-off points, in midst of prolonged transitions Professional spine for lifelong career guidance system, working in close partnership with other providers: mix of service delivery and capacity building Main exemplars: New Zealand; Scotland; Wales
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National Careers Service Designed to build on the best of Connexions and Next Step Half-baked implementation: - Face-to-face services only for adults (NCS providers able to market face-to-face services for young people, but not as the NCS) - Face-to-face services only for adults (NCS providers able to market face-to-face services for young people, but not as the NCS) - Telephone helplines still separate, if with same call number - Telephone helplines still separate, if with same call number - Website still adult-oriented - Website still adult-oriented - Limited channel integration and service redesign - Limited channel integration and service redesign - Limited marketing - Limited marketing
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Careers Provision for Young People Move from partnership model to school- based model Minimal statutory duty Where external services are used, contractor-supplier relationship, within an open market Connexions career guidance funding (£196m) not transferred to schools: effectively removed (without any public statement to this effect)
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Systemic Weaknesses of School- Based Systems (OECD) Weak links to labour market; tend to view subject/course choices as educational choices, without attending to their career implications Partial: where funding is linked to student retention, tend to place institutional needs before student needs Uneven: extent and quality of provision determined by school management priorities Cf. strengths of partnership model
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Move to School-Based Model Two precedents: Netherlands; New Zealand In both cases, resulted in significant reductions in extent and quality of careers provision But in both cases, the previous funding for the external service was transferred to schools (if without strong ring-fencing); not the case in England So reductions likely to be greater here
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Netherlands Particularly relevant to England: linked to marketisation OECD (2002): position of Government ‘widely seen as representing not delegation but abdication’ Previously one of the leading countries in Europe for career guidance provision: now one of the weakest
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Ireland School-based system: guidance counsellors covering personal/social counselling as well as career guidance Ex-quota formula: one guidance counsellor for every 500 students Formula now withdrawn: left to school to decide
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Possible Future Directions Enforce the three-pronged quality framework: - professional standards (CDI) - professional standards (CDI) - service standards (Matrix) - service standards (Matrix) - organisational standards (QiCS; IiP) - organisational standards (QiCS; IiP) Make schools accountable
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Possible Directions for the NCS Resource for innovation, knowledge support (LMI) and capacity building within schools and colleges, and other organisations, alongside its distance guidance services and more limited face- to-face services (cf. New Zealand) Extend to cover all quality-assured career development support provision, with a common brand as basis for marketing and public visibility/recognition
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Career Support Market: Roles of Government (OECD) Premise: career support a public good as well as a private good To grow the market To quality-assure the market To compensate for market failure
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