Global European and UK career guidance policy January 19 th 2018 Learning outcomes By the end of the session you will be able to Discuss the role that public policy plays in career guidance and career guidance plays in public policy ID: 675112
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MA in Careers Education and Coaching:
Global, European and UK career guidance policy
January 19
th
2018Slide2
Learning outcomes
By the end of the session you will be able to:
Discuss the role that public policy plays in career guidance (and career guidance plays in public policy)
Identify the ways in which public policy actors have tried to shape the development of career guidance internationally.
Describe how current policy in England might influence and shape the way in which you practice career education and coaching.Slide3
NoteSlides will be available after the session. A full list of references will be given at the end of the presentation. Slide4
OverviewSlide5
OverviewSlide6
OECD definitionCareer guidance refers to services and activities intended to assist individuals, of any age and at any point throughout their lives, to make educational, training and occupational choices and to manage their careers…
The activities may take place on an individual or group basis, and may be face-to-face or at a distance (including help lines and web-based services).
(OECD, 2004)Slide7Slide8
Choosing a vocation (1909)No step in life, unless it may be the choice of a husband or wife, is more important than the choice of a vocation…You may not be able to get into the right line of work at first. You may have to learn your living for a while in any way that is open to you. But if you study yourself and get sufficient knowledge of various industries to determine what sort of work you are best adapted to, and then carefully prepare yourself for efficient service in that line, the opportunity will come for you to make use of the best that is you in your daily work. Slide9
OverviewSlide10
DiscussionWho benefits from career guidance?Who pays for career guidance?Slide11
What do these terms mean?Slide12
So why do politicians and policy makers care about career guidance?Slide13
Public policy rationalesSlide14
Economic benefitsSlide15
European resolution on integrating guidance (2008)Rationales for the integration of guidance into lifelong learning strategiesGlobalisationEuropean mobility
Multiple life transitions
Skills mismatches
Social inclusion and equal opportunitiesSlide16
Career guidance is bothpart of an effectively functioning education and employment system; anda safeguard against ineffective and imperfect systems.Slide17
OverviewSlide18
An international policy area55 national reviews of career guidance systems. Policy and practice exist in many more countries. During the late 1990s and early 2000s there were a number of large scale cross national studies conducted by OECD, EU, World Bank, ILO etc. which drew out key themes in policy and practice. Slide19
Themes in the international reviewsSlide20
A continuum of public policy approaches to career guidanceSlide21
ELGPN features of effective policy systemsSlide22
ICCDPP 2017
The International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy (ICDDPP) is an international forum for sharing policy and practice around career guidance/career development.
The 2017 meeting was held in Korea with 21 countries in attendance.
It produced a series of international recommendations for governments across the world. Slide23
The way that work is organised is changing, so…
Build a national, cross-sectoral, career development strategy.
Recognise that individuals’ careers pass through the jurisdictions of a range of government departments.
Involve employers in building career development systems.
Widen access to career development services.
Organise career development on a lifelong basis. Slide24
To make sure that your careers programmes are relevant and effective…
Involve key stakeholders (parents, employers, educators and citizens) in the design and delivery of career development programmes and services.
Ensure individuals have access to work experience and work-related learning.
Provide good quality labour market information (LMI).
Make use of technology.
Support employers to provide career development services for their staff.
Base policies and practice in evidence. Slide25
Career development is dependent on professionalism, so…
Involve stakeholders in the design and delivery of career professional training and development.
Actively support professionalism.
Develop approaches for effective inter-professional working.
Ensure high quality initial training.
Support the development of professional associations.
Recognise the need for ongoing professional development. Slide26
Build career development skills through engagement with career guidance, so…
Clearly define career development skills.
Create a common conversation around career development skills.
Integrate career development skills into the education and employment systems.
Actively support advocacy by career professionals for the use of career development skills. Slide27
OverviewSlide28
Different groups of citizens
User group
Government department
Entitlement to career guidance
Main delivery mechanism
Young people in schools
Young people in college
Young people (NEET)
High education students
Working adults
Unemployed/not working people
Prisoners
Other…?Slide29
Wider policy themesSlide30
Key elements of current careers policySlide31
The careers strategy is out
Inspiring encounters with further and higher education, and with employers and workplaces
Excellent advice and guidance programmes
Support and guidance tailored to individual needs
Using data and technology to help everyone make choices about careers Slide32
Career guidance and access for education and training providers
Released in January 2018.
Covers schools
A college version will be released imminently. Slide33
What difference does all of this make to your practice?Slide34
OverviewSlide35
The politics of career guidanceCareers education and guidance is a profoundly political process. It operates at the interface between the individual and society, between self and opportunity, between aspiration and realism. It facilitates the allocation of life chances. Within a society in which such life chances are unequally distributed, it faces the issue of whether it serves to reinforce such inequalities or to reduce them.
Tony WattsSlide36
Socio-political ideologies of guidanceSlide37
Defining career guidance
“Career guidance supports individuals and groups to discover more about work, leisure and learning and to consider their place in the world and plan for their futures… Career guidance can take a wide range of forms and draws on diverse theoretical traditions. But at its heart it is a purposeful learning opportunity which supports individuals and groups to consider and reconsider work, leisure and learning in the light of new information and experiences and to take both individual and collective action as a result of this.”Slide38
ReferencesCouncil of the European Union. (2008). Council Resolution on Better Integrating Lifelong Guidance into Lifelong Learning Strategies. Brussels: Council of the European Union.
Department for Education. (2017).
Careers Strategy: Making the Most of Everyone’s Skills and Talent
s. London: Department for Education.
Department for Education. (2018).
Careers guidance and access for education and training providers.
London: Department for Education.
European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (2012).
Lifelong Guidance Policy Development: A European Resource Kit
.
Jyväskylä
, Finland: ELGPN.
Hooley, T. (2017). Fog in the Channel – Continent Cut Off: The Implications of Brexit for Career Guidance in the UK.
Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling
, 38, 21-27.
Hooley, T. (2014).
The Evidence Base on Lifelong Guidance
.
Jyväskylä
, Finland: European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN).
Hooley, T. (2015).
Career Guidance and Inspiration in Schools (March 2015) (Policy Commentary 30).
Careers England.
Hooley, T. and Barham, L. (Eds.). (2015).
Career Development Policy and Practice: The Tony Watts Reader
. Stafford: Highflyers.
Hooley, T. and Dodd, V. (2015).
The Economic Benefits of Career Guidance
. Careers England.Slide39
More referencesHooley, T., Sultana, R.G. and Thomsen, R. (2017). The neoliberal challenge to career guidance - mobilising research, policy and practice around social justice. In Hooley, T., Sultana, R.G. and Thomsen, R. (Eds.) Career guidance for social justice: Contesting neoliberalism
. London: Routledge.
International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy. (2017).
Communique 2017
. Seoul:
Krivet
.
McCarthy, J. & Hooley, T. (2015).
Integrated Policies: Creating Systems That Work
. Adel, IA :
Kuder
.
Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). (2004).
Career Guidance and Public Policy: Bridging the Gap
. Paris: OECD.
Parsons, F. (1909).
Choosing a Vocation
. Boston; New York: Houghton Mifflin.
Watts, A.G. (2014). Cross-national reviews of career guidance systems: overview and reflections.
Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling
, 32, 4-14