EGUIDE Quality Assurance Framework

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EGUIDE Quality Assurance Framework

• Presentation to Reaching Excellence
• 1st QALLL Conference on Quality Assurance in
  Lifelong Learning, Bled, Slovenia
• By Peter Nolan, EU Special Projects Officer,
• Ballymun Job Centre, Dublin, Ireland

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Putting the Assured Value of EGUIDE within a
Practical Context

• Growing up in Ballymun in itself is an
  injusticeYou are more likely to drop out of
  education, more likely to end up in social
  housing,, to get a lower paid job and to die
  youngerWhen I was in secondary school in
  Ballymun it had one of the highest drop-out rates
  in the country and it still does
• Comments in the Irish Times (5th March 2011)
• Newly elected member of the Irish Parliament,
  John Lyons TD

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Quality Career Guidance

• Aim of the service is to increase/raise levels
• self awareness
• motivation
• self esteem
• self efficacy
• career clarity etc.
• develop realistic career development plans

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EGUIDE Guidance Process Model
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European Common Quality Assurance Framework
(TWG, 2004)
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EGUIDE QA Framework

• Six steps in guidance process
• Promotion
• Welcome Information Provision
• Consultancy The EGUIDE tools and Feedback
• Decision Making
• Implementation of Career Plan
• Follow up
• Quality framework breaks barriers by
• Providing standardised quality service to the
  client
• Ensuring career guidance tools are used within a
  context
• Enabling continuous improvement of service to
  clients

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EGUIDE QA Framework