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Career orientation and career guidance state of the art in education in The Netherlands. Kick off meeting TOI BLUE 3th december 2012. What is c areer orientation and career guidance (COCG) in The Netherlands.
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Career orientation and career guidance state of the art in education in The Netherlands Kick off meeting TOI BLUE 3th december 2012
What is careerorientationandcareerguidance (COCG) in The Netherlands • COCG in educationis about support pupilsandstudentstodiscovertheirtalentsandambitionsand help themfind a goodplace in futhereducation or employment. • Who is responsiblefor COCG secundaryeducation, vocationaleducationandhighereducation in cooperation with the labour market. • Why is COCG important • To stimulate talent development • To stimulate individual learning pathways • To stimulate flow in education • To stimulate the labour market (economy) • Toreduceearly school leaving • Toreduceswithbetweeneducation programs • To reduce unemployment rate
Policy of COCG (1) • Ministry of Education COCG is important foreconomyandlabour market but implementation of COCG is a responsibility of each individual educational institution. • Ministry of Education started the project VSV (Early school leaving) http://www.aanvalopschooluitval.nl/togetherwithmunicipalities. The project is succesful but has a limited focus. • Since august 2000 COCG has been financedby the lump-sumfunding in secondary en vocationaleducation. Nature, scope andquality, availability andaccessibility are up to the individual schools. EducationInspectorateprovidesexternalvalidation of the schools qualityassuraceefforts. • In VET the document 'qualificationrequirementscareerandcitizenship’ is required. The career management skills (Kuijpers, 2003) are an important part of the document. http://www.kwalificatiesmbo.nl/leren-loopbaan-en-burgerschap.html • Boards of education set up careerguidance stimulus plansforsecondaryeducationby council forsecondaryeducation (VO-raad) http://www.lob-vo.nl/and VET byMBO Diensten http://www.mbodiensten.nl/mbodiensten/p000047/projecten/loopbaanorientatie-en-begeleiding-lob-fase-i-09-2010-07-2012
Policy of COCG (2) • HighereducationNetherlands Assciation of Applied Sciences (HBO-raad) and the Association of Universities in the Netherlands (VSNU) take steps toimprove members performance. • Issuing binding recommendations (BSA) • Experimentingwithindividualstudychoice interviews • Setting up centres of excellence at five universities • Active involvementwithministryof SocialAffairsandEmployment (SZW) and the ministry of EconomicAffairs (EZ) is verylimited. COCG in education is a matter of ministry of Education, Culture andScience (OCW) at this moment.
Organization of COCG withineducationalinstitutes • School vision, policy, qualityandimplementation is a task of eachindividual school or school department (VET andhighereducation) • Often school counsellors (secondaryguidance) are responsiblefor COCG. Latelythey are assistedbyprimaryguidance mentors. • In lager institutionsthere are centralisedand specialist departments (secondaryguidance) for COCG. Tertiaryguidance is outside the school (private providers). • COCG activitiesanddialogues take place on criticalmoments of choice (fixed points in education): • sector selection in vmbo en profile selection in havo/vwo (secundaryeducation) • beforespecialization in VET or highereducation • beforegraduation (specialy in secondaryeducationitisn’tfinaleducation)
Recent developments in dutchresearch • Career skills (Kuijper, 2003) become more often a beacon in the field of education: • Reflecting on motives • Reflecting on quality • Exploringwork • Managing career • Networking • Latelyinstitutions design a powerfulcareer-focusedlearning environment (Meijers & Kuijpers, 2006) • practice-based, functionaland real-life • Active, participatory • Reflectiveanddialogue • In TOI BLUE the municipality of ‘s-Hertogenbosch takes anactive part in stimulate COCG (ratheruniquefor NL). Project ambition is toimplementabovementioned research anddevelopments.
Cooperation within COCG • Regionally, secondary school and VET colleges worktogheter in early school leavingprojects (39 regionalnetworks = RMC). Frequently COCG is part of these projects but the focus is still on youngsters at risk, notforallyoungsters(there is still a networkpromisingconnection?!) • Cooperation within COCG is an important topic in the stimulus plans(highereducation is involved) • Generally cooperation within COCG is toofragmantedand not sustainable yet (depends on certain people or projects) • Intention of TOI BLUE is tocoorperatewith the regional stakeholders of COCG (educationandlabour market)
COCG learningpathway • Ongoing COCG learningpathwaysaren’t easy tofindin schools. Mostlythere are activitiesaroundcriticalmoments of choicenotcontinuously. • Between different educationalinstitutionsandbetweeneducationand the labour market ongoing COCG learningpathways are also hard tofind. However at somecriticalmoments of choiceinstitutions set up projectstogether. • The intention of TOI BLUE is tocreate strong ongoing COCG learningpathways (curriculum) in school andbetween different educationalinstitutions/labour market. Startig point are the needs of pupils/students.
Professionalizationof COCG • The are no strictrequirementsforguidancecounsellorsandmentors. • Is’s the responsibility of eacheducationalinstitutetodecide on the budget and time spendon professionalization. • The focus of professionalization is on careerconversation (dialogue) forboth mentors andcounsellors. No focused on COCG in curriculum • Associationsfor school counsellors (NVS-NVL & VvSL) offer training andeducation • Courses at Universities of AppliedScience (Fontys & Saxion Human Talent Development) and private providers. • In the stimulus plan careerguidancefor VET professionalization is an important item (they offer a training careerconversation)
Thankyouforyour attention. For questionsrelatedtothispresentationsendan email to Marieke Baijens mbaijens@cinop.nl