The Future of Educational

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The Future of Educational Career Guidance
Where next?

• Deirdre Hughes
• Director University Reader
• Centre for Guidance Studies
• 6th June 2006

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Overview

• Key themes linked to policy
• practice
• Research, policy and
• practice perspective
• Developing innovative teaching and learning
  programmes

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Proposition

• Need to assess and understand more fully changes
  in patterns of learning, work and lifestyles

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Aim

• Create a national
• shared vision
• Agree common language
• Generate evidence on impact
• Inspire people to better manage their lives,
  learning and work

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All individuals regardless of their social or
economic circumstances, need to find ways of
connecting with learning opportunities so that
they can prosper and achieve their true potential
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Common Goals

• Supporting informed choices
• Helping individuals manage
• their decisions
• Inspiring people to develop
• knowledge and skills to
• manage transitions
• throughout their lives
• Confidence Resilience

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Sign of the Times

• Industrial revolution
• 20th Century
• Digital revolution
• 21st Century

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International Symposium Findings

• Scale of the current
• difficulties in meeting
• skill and labour
• requirements is large

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International Symposium Findings

• Need for more skilled, flexible and self-directed
  workers

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International Symposium Findings

• Closer links being forged
• between a broad range
• of policies

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Workforce

• Preparation
• Adaptability and sustainability
• Reintegration

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OECD, Paris

• Size of labour force will
• grow little or even fall in
• some G7 countries
• Imperative to skill, up-skill
• and re-skill the adult population

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OECD, Paris

• Basic competencies
• must be in place for
• Newcomers
• Recognise informal and
• formal learning linked to
• qualification system

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The social and economic purpose of career
development are inter-dependent
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Personal and financial management, career
exploration and employment flexibility are all
inextricably linked
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Generation Ya new breed of consumer

• Electronic gadgets
• Adopting technology
• Parents and grandparents
• money trees
• Self-image paramount

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Generation Ya new breed of consumer

• Opportunity for self-gain an
• entitlement or right
• Developing a BLUEPRINT for 21st century?

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Future shape characteristics

• Guidance ..a vague product
• or service?
• A new and dynamic vision has
• to be articulated so that people
• will want to invest time, energy
• and resource
• A Blueprint for Career Development

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A Blueprint
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Totally convinced..

• Helping people to continuously adapt
• Supporting quality and
• consistency of services
• Optimising the development and use of resources

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Totally convinced..

• Achievement of
• competencies can do
• approach
• Supporting the integrity of
• differing services
• Evaluating and reporting
• on impact

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Multi-cultural society

• Recognition of differing
• cultural beliefs and values
• in supporting the
• achievement of life and
• work goals

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New tactics for evidencing impact of
educational and careers work

• Showcase strategies and
• resources that highlight both
• impact and innovation

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Cross Training in Career Development

• Basic teacher training
• Further education training
• Human Resource Specialists
• e.g. South African approach

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Where Next?

• Agree a common framework
• a customised Blueprint
• Clearer product definition
• career development
• services for all

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Where Next?

• Develop and deliver
• cross-training and CPD
• Maintain integrity of services through a more
  joined-up approach

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A METAPHOR
Blue print to ground reality

Strength and stretch
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