What's happening in Europe about guidance qualifications?
12 July 2011
Not only in the UK is there a sea change in the thinking about professional development in Guidance studies. The guidance profession is undergoing a massive change currently in thinking in the EU and Development and Implementation of Common Bachelor's Degree Programme in the European Context (DICBDPEC) is being developed.
A New Pan European Guidance Learning and Development Programme. ICeGS is the UK representative in the innovative DICBDPEC project which is being developed under the ERASMUS EU programme.
The projects Development of DICBDPEC is carried out with the support of the European Community as part of the Lifelong Learning Programme, Sub-programme ERASMUS, Multilateral projects. The project starts in November 2010 and ends in September 2013.
Objectives of the Project
Harmonization of higher education (Bachelor, Mgr.) and postgraduate education for career guidance in partner countries, by accepting comparable academic degrees, joint diploma / Diploma Supplement
- Securing the transparency of existing national systems of career counsellors' (CC) education, to improvement of recognitions of their qualifications, support of international mobility of students and graduates
- Improvement of quality in provided higher education, its further internationalisation as well as employment of higher education graduates at domestic and international labour markets
Results of the Project
- Integrated study programme covering the cycle of study (Bachelor, Mgr.) with using the credits (ECTS), enabling to obtain the recognised joint diploma/Diploma Supplement
- Innovated modular educational programme for postgraduate study for CC using ICT
- Professional terminology dictionary developed in languages of all partner countries (DE, EL,EN, ET, ES, HR, PL, SK) along with unified professional terminology in the field of career guidance in EU context
- Criteria of quality evaluation of education for career guidance (with utilization of the ECTS and Diploma Supplement) and proposal of the criteria of quality (in agreement with EU standard quality ESG) for study programme of higher and postgraduate education of CC
- Accreditation of educational programmes
Impact of the Project
- Enlargement of European area of higher education in the field of career guidance
- Improvement of quality of collaboration between institutions of higher education in the EU framework
- Increasing the degree of transparency and correspondence between qualifications obtained within the framework of higher education for CC in the EU
- Support of the development and transfer of innovation procedures with the support of ICT in higher education and VET in the field of career guidance among partner countries
- Introducing integrated higher education of the CC within the EU context
- Increasing the quality and access to higher education and VET for experts specialized in career guidance with regard to EU dimension
Please get in touch with iCeGS colleagues to discuss DICBDPEC in more detail icegsenquiry@derby.ac.uk .
