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Career Guidance and Counseling
Establishing high quality career guidance and counselling programmes is important in any well-functioning TVET system. Utilising a career guidance and counselling system promotes improved course selection for students leading to benefits for learners, who are more pleased with their selection, and benefits for TVET institutions which experience a lower drop-out rate. Good career guidance can also help decrease the gap between education and un/underemployment, on the one hand, and productive livelihoods on the other and is thus considered an effective means of improving the status of TVET in the public perception. UNESCO is committed to developing and promoting research and action in this field.
Guidance and counselling programmes are often insufficiently promoted in many countries throughout the world. UNESCO is particularly interested in establishing and improving guidance and counselling in developing countries and will also work to promote guidance and counselling systems that deal with the issue of gender imbalances in TVET. Indeed, Guidance and counseling programmes may help to optimally utilise teh resources invested in TVET. During the 2004-2005 biennium newly developed guidance and counselling material will be field tested in selected developing countries and adjusted to meet their specific socio-economic and cultural situations.
Today, people should expect to make multiple career changes throughout their lives and continually upgrade their skills. The importance of establishing a quality career guidance programme is particularly important if today’s learners are to successfully adapt, and continue to adapt, to future labour market challenges.
UNESCO has been working to raise awareness about the importance of career guidance and counselling to increase the effectiveness of national technical and vocational education and training programmes. |
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