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Lifelong Guidance and Employability in Higher Education
Lifelong Guidance and Employability in Higher Education
in higher education
Raimo Vuorinen, Ph.D.
ELGPN Co-ordinator
University of Jyvskyl, Finland
Tristram Hooley
Professor of Career Education
University of Derby, England
Career?
Career choise
European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network
http://elgpn.eu
Coordinator: elgpn@jyu.fi
Career construction?
With the support of the
Lifelong Learning Programme
of the European Union
Voice of suppliers:
Voice of users:
Lifelong Learning
Careering ?
Co-careering ?
Life Design ?
Social
competences
Professional
competences
Key and
Tranversal
Competences
Rethinking of:
Personal
competences
Lifelong
Career
Management
Skills as one key
competence of
Lifelong Learning
With the support of the
Lifelong Learning Programme
of the European Union
Policy Development
Organisations in charge of
LLG related services
Interaction with citizens
European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network
http://elgpn.eu
Coordinator: elgpn@jyu.fi
Expected
outcomes of
lifelong
guidance in
different
levels?
Effectiveness of the
educational system
and the labour
market
Learning outcomes
Individual Career
Management Skills
With the support of the
Lifelong Learning Programme
of the European Union
Integrative role of
Information and
Communication
Technology
National lifelong
guidance strategy
Need for a
common,
jointly
agreed
conceptual
framework
University level
strategies &
implementation
Faculty level
strategies &
implementation
With the support of the
Lifelong Learning Programme
of the European Union
Mobility
European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network
http://elgpn.eu
Coordinator: elgpn@jyu.fi
Eurostat (2010)
Flash EB No 304
Employers
perception of
graduate
employability
Institutional responses
Employability as skill
Employability as immediate outcome
Employability as a lifelong attribute and
outcome (career)
In summary
Lifelong guidance offers an important
policy context for higher education.
There is considerable practice in career
development in higher education.
It is possible to identify a range of
practices that can effectively support the
careers of participants in higher education.
Thank you
any questions?
Raimo Vuorinen, Senior researcher, Ph.D.
Co-ordinator of the ELGPN
Finnish Institute for Educational Research
P.O. Box 35
FI-40014 University of Jyvskyl
tel. +358-50-3611909
Fax +358-14-617418
email: raimo.vuorinen@jyu.fi
www: http://elgpn.eu/
Skype: vuorai
Tristram Hooley
Professor of Career Education
International Centre for Guidance Studies
University of Derby
tel. +44 1332 591268
email: t.hooley@derby.ac.uki
www: www.derby.ac.uk