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Purpose and rationale of the Cedefop study on qualification routes and competences for career guidance counsellors Mr Mika Launikari Cedefop, Thessaloniki, 13-14 October 2008. POLICY FRAMEWORK
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Purpose and rationale of the Cedefop study on qualification routes and competences for career guidance counsellors Mr Mika Launikari Cedefop, Thessaloniki, 13-14 October 2008
POLICY FRAMEWORK • GUIDANCE RESOLUTION 2004 “… to strengthen structures for policy and systems development at national and regional levels by involving appropriate key players (ministries, social partners, employ-ment services, services providers, guidance practitioners, …)” • “… to support providers of initial and continuing education of guidance practitioners to reflect current best practice across the Union in their training programmes” • OECD (2004) AND CEDEFOP (2004, 2008) CAREER GUIDANCE REPORTS indicate that professional qualifications and occupational standards for guidance counsellors are not sufficiently developed in many countries • DRAFT GUIDANCE RESOLUTION (2008) “ … enhancing guidance practitioners´ professional standards … promoting their competences and professional skills …” 1 Cedefop, Thessaloniki – 13-14 October 2008
- GUIDANCE COUNSELLORS are a very heterogeneous group as regards their tasks, professional status, educational background, working environment and client groups • - GUIDANCE SERVICES are offered in a wide range of settings (education, training, non-formal/informal learning, adult learning, employment, work places, etc.) • - ACTORS whose primary occupation is not within guidance and counselling often offer career guidance related services. • INTERNATIONAL GUIDANCE REVIEWS recommend that comprehensive career guidance competence-based frameworks should be developed • COMPETENCE FRAMEWORKS as a basis for reforming guidance provision, supporting professional development of guidance staff and achieving the lifelong guidance paradigm shift. • SUCH FRAMEWORKS may give impetus to modernising training programmes, updating and establishing qualification standards as well as accreditation procedures. 2 Cedefop, Thessaloniki – 13-14 October 2008
CEDEFOP CALL FOR TENDER (2007) • to review qualification routes to become a guidance counsellor, entry requirements to work as a guidance counsellor as well as professional standards and certification arrangements for guidance staff acting in a variety of settings (education, labour); • to explore the knowledge, competences, and skills underpinning effective professional delivery in different settings, as well as shared and distinctive functions implemented by guidance staff. • to design a competence-based framework for guidance practitioners covering a variety of career guidance roles and to be applied to drafting national/sectoral competence-based frameworks. • - to highlight a series of recommendations for the different stakeholders concerned with the training and qualifications of career guidance counsellors. 3 Cedefop, Thessaloniki – 13-14 October 2008
CONCRETE ACTION • DRAFT REPORT • - to be circulated to the Member States for validation (October 2008) • - to be debated at the Cedefop peer learning event (October 2008) • -> PLE conclusions to be inserted in the report • PRINTED REPORT • - estimated to be available by the time of the IAEVG conference • (Jyväskylä, Finland, June 2009) • - to be used to support policy and strategy development and • implemention in the member states as regards guidance counsellors´ • competences and qualifications 4 Cedefop, Thessaloniki – 13-14 October 2008