Developing careers education and guidance in a tertiary college
Title:
Developing careers education and guidance in a tertiary college
Author:
Prout, Gillian A.
Appeared in:
British journal of guidance & counselling
Paging:
Volume 18 (1990) nr. 1 pages 84-95
Year:
1990-01-01
Contents:
The growing number of tertiary colleges presents careers education and guidance with challenges different from and additional to those of secondary schools, sixth-form colleges and further education. This article describes and analyses how one tertiary college, founded four years ago, has responded to these challenges. The background to the setting up of the college, and of careers education and guidance within it, is described and some areas of difficulty and ambiguity are identified. The emergence of principles (comprehensiveness, time-tabling, timing, identification of need, and curriculum negotiation) underlying the organisation of careers education is documented. Four types of careers course (Introductory, Exploratory, Focusing and Practical Guidance) are described and examples of how they are used are given. Particular attention is drawn to the innovatory use of 'Careers Workshops'.
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