Sixth International Symposium on Career Development and Public Policy

 Budapest, Hungary5 December 2011

 

Purpose of the country papers1. Stimulate discussion in country teams prior to attending the

symposium.

2. Enable country teams to develop a collective view of their country’s services and issues.

3. Identify issues on which country teams can be grouped together at the symposium to learn from each other.

4. Start to shape future vision/ mission statements for country teams.

Questions have been framed for each subtheme to facilitate workshop discussions.

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Continents and countries (27)

America:-Canada-United States

Asia:- India- Israel- Lebanon

Australia:-Australia-New-Zealand

Europe: - Austria, - Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, -Estonia, Germany , - Greece, - Hungary, Ireland, Kosovo (non-EU), - Latvia, -Poland, -Portugal , -Norway (EEA), - Serbia (non-EU), -Slovenia, - United Kingdom

Africa:- South Africa

Asia / Europe:-Turkey-Russia

Iceland, Finland,France, Montenegro, Netherlands, South Korea, Qatar 3

Technical issues:

- late submissions- word limit (too long, too short)

Content issues:

- different understanding of tasks and themes- use of professional language

Overall: good job, thank you for all!

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The four subthemes for the IS2011

1. Political, economic and social changes and the changing role of career guidance and career guidance policies. Dr. Gideon Arulmani / India

2. Lifelong guidance policy as a part of integrated human resource development policies – challenges and opportunities.

Lynne Bezanson / Canada

3. The changing world and the changing role of career guidance – skills and competencies for lifelong guidance practitioners.

Dr. John McCarthy / New Zealand

4. Evidence-based practice; evidence-based policies.Dr. Raimo Vuorinen / Finland

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Priorities I. Political, economic and social changes and the changing role of career guidance and career guidance policies. II. Lifelong guidance policy as a part of integrated human resource development policies – challenges and opportunities.

III. The changing world and the changing role of career guidance – skills and competencies for lifelong guidance practitioners.

IV. Evidence-based practice; evidence-based policies.

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Priorities Two clusters:1.Croatia, Cyprus, Estonia, Kosovo and Serbia

Subthemes: II followed by III.I IV.

2. Lebanon and the United Kingdom

Subthemes: I, followed by III, II and IV.

There is no clear pattern among the rest of the countries.

Turkey gave equal importance to all of the subthemes.

Some other countries, such Hungary and India, used the scale approach (using only 1, 2 and 3) to avoid ranking any of the subthemes as the least important.

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The most often mentioned issues were:

· the importance of strengthening partnerships (Poland, New Zealand)· achievement of common understanding of goals, terminology, purpose of career guidance (Latvia)· better education of practitioners (Serbia, Slovenia)· using evidence-based policy ( Norway, Germany, Ireland)· better utilization of the tools supported by modern technology (e.g. the internet or webbased career guidance tools) (Israel, Turkey)· widening access / access to all (Turkey, Norway)

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sustainable

quality-assured

evidence-based policy led

professional

recognised

government-supported

well-established

partnership-based

efficient

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Thank you for your contributions and attention!

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