The involvement of the European Union in career guidance policy: ...

a brief history

an article by A G Watts, Ronald G Sultana and John McCarthy published in International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance Volume 10 Number 2 (2010)

Abstract
The history of the involvement of the European Union in the development of policy related to career guidance is analysed in terms of three broad periods. In the first two of these, interventions were confined to pilot projects, exchanges and placements, study visits and studies/surveys, with particular attention to young people; whereas the period since 2000 has seen greater attention being paid to lifelong activities that support the implementation of EU policy priorities and their mainstreaming at national level. These trends reflect both the EU’s “creeping competence” and the emerging concept of “lifelong guidance”.

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