Recent policies in England have enacted significant changes to careers information advice and guidance (CIAG) and work-related learning (WRL). This paper offers insight into these changes from the perspective of young people studying engineering at University Technical Colleges (UTCs) as well as "comprehensive" schools. Face-to-face CIAG…

In this study the emphasis of selecting a school and profession is put onto the family role in educational and professional guidance in order to help the students to obtain the necessary information for further education, by the help of their parents, more efficiently and more functionally. The study was conducted in Virovitica and Podravina…

The purpose of this study is to determine the guidance and counseling needs of middle school (i.e., sixth, seventh, and eighth grades) students from their points of views by using qualitative research techniques. In addition, while collecting the data, semi-structured interview technique is used as a method of data collection. The study was…

Investigates formulation of an appropriate 4-year high school program of study consisting of required courses and electives that would provide a map of educational milestones for realizing a student's career aspirations. Results suggest that interventions including announcements, handouts, and computer-assisted classroom career guidance were…

Examines gender differences in rural eighth-grade students' curricular, career, and lifestyle expectations. Girls expect to take more math classes in high school, select careers that require a college education, and plan to go to college more frequently than do boys. Girls prefer occupations that involve people, whereas boys prefer occupations…

Examined school career guidance among 210 male, primary school graduates from 10 Israeli state schools, 125 from schools in affluent neighborhoods and 85 from schools in poorer neighborhoods. Revealed that students' ethnicity and labeling as problematic directly affected guidance by counselors only in poor neighborhoods. Findings suggest…

Two national surveys (one administered to 18,129 students in 1973 and the other administered to 15,432 students in 1983) collected data concerning such indicators of the career development of junior and senior high school students as reactions to career guidance services and career planning involvement. Whereas 78 percent of the 11th graders would…

An evaluation of a project which initiated an organized program of vocational guidance for the Lower Dauphin Junior High School in Hummelstown, Pennsylvania is described. A special program emphasis had been developed for each of the three grade levels. It was not possible to evaluate the grade 8 program; however, two evaluation forms were used in…

Investigates motives behind Soviet students' occupational choices. Discusses a survey of eighth-grade students in Berdiansk and upper-grade, rural and urban Crimean students. Finds that student interests provide the main motive for choice. Differentiates between motives and stimuli and between personal and social motives. Reports that 20.6 percent…