Second Survey School and WOW.pdf

WORKING GROUP: PRINCIPLES AND CRITERIA
II.3. Recommendations – topics for discussion
What are consequences for national and European policies and strategies in the field of
“school and the world of work”?
Austria
A lot of surveys, documentations and studies for school guidance and transition in Europe
exists – e.g. by CEDEFOP, Euro Stat, Refernet, and at national level.
The first step must be, to collect all this data and facts and (before a new study) to make a
“meta review”, compare the relevant indicators, benchmarks and facts (not only the “official”
European benchmarks!) according to the recognitions of OECD (Transition from Initial
Education to Working Life”, Lifelong Guidance Policies etc.) and other sources.
The second step must be, to try to find a common structure for make visible the “hart facts”
and the “soft facts” of transition in a comparable way all over Europe.
The third step should be to discover the common principles, criterias, success criteria and
obstacles of transition and the specific different aspects in the member countries – especially
concerning to the fact, that the performance in the official European education benchmarks
not correlates really with the successful transition of young people from initial education to
working life.
Czech Republic
There is a need of:
Better cooperation between the main guidance providers including the legislation
and resources.
Widening on‐line information and other guidance resources.
HE study programmes for guidance counsellors.
More research in guidance and its contribution to lowering the unemployment and
to economy.
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