The recent Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education 'Code of practice for the assurance of academic quality and standards in higher education Section 8: Career education, information, advice and guidance' have been released. The Code of practice supports the national arrangements within the UK for quality assurance in higher education. It identifies a comprehensive series of system-wide principles (precepts) covering matters relating to the management of academic quality and standards in higher education. It provides an authoritative reference point for institutions as they consciously, actively and systematically assure the academic quality and standards of their programmes, awards and qualifications. Under section eight 'stakeholder relations' the code of practice encourages institutional guidance workers to "keep up to date with the findings of relevant research organisations, including the National Institute for Careers Education and Counselling (NICEC) and the International Centre for Guidance Studies (iCeGS), and will seek to disseminate key findings and developments to other staff involved in providing CEIAG".