General guidelines and comments on career education and guidance
General guidelines and comments on career education and guidance from the Swedish National Agency for Education have been developed due, in part, to the deficiencies cited in the latter's assessments (2005 and 2007)
Sammanfattning 2: Work with career education and guidance within the schools and municipalities has shown shortcomings with regard to governance and management, resource allocation, and cooperation between schools and working life. Career education has had a low priority and has not sufficiently involved all categories of school professionals identified in the curricula. All too often career education and guidance work has been left exclusively to career counsellors.
By way of introduction, this report provides general guidelines and indicates to whom this advice is applicable. General guidelines are followed by comments that are intended to clarify the advice. Comments are based upon research on career guidance, assessments and verified experience.
The purpose of the general guidelines and comments is to contribute to the improvement of career education and guidance in all kinds of schools so that the work is of equally high quality throughout the country. Hopefully,career education and guidance will be a task that involves everyone who works in schools, so that every student obtains the information and guidancehe or she needs and wishes.
