Second Survey School and WOW.pdf

WORKING GROUP: SCHOOL
The "TET‐tori", Web‐based resource‐center for period of work experience, was developed in
co‐operation with regional comprehensive schools, companies and secondary level vocational
training institutes and upper secondary general education. The TET‐tori builds on the needs of
individual students looking for information on placement options in enterprises. The
companies themselves maintain the information needed to students and the schools. The
system includes the main legislative documents needed in the process. It provides the
vocational schools opportunities to link their training provision with the job placements
available. It includes also materials how to integrate this introductory period in the local career
education programmes. System has also features to support placement for summer jobs for
students. This framework as such can be duplicated as an empty platform and only the
regional information should be fulfiled by local experts and companies. From that perspective
this illustrates how ICT can be used in managing the whole regional guidance provision, not
only information in individual guidance process. This makes the whole guidance provision
more transparent for the students, parents, providers and companies. The use of this system is
a comprehensive content in career education sessions. More than 3000 enterprises in Finland
are already as registered users.
Germany
A project we are accompanying in the moment is the school project KÜM in the metropolregion
“Rhein‐Neckar” (Cities of Mannheim, Heidelberg, Ludwigshafen and the region around).
For this project, in more than 20 Schools extra guidance stuff is integrated. The guidance stuff
support the young people for the last two years. They are helping them with individual and
group sessions, information, interest‐tests, skill development for the transition, preparing
applications and so on.
The project maybe can be “good practice” because of the duration of the “learning process”,
the establishing of special guidance professionals in the schools and the strong cooperation
between the schools and the regional world of work. This cooperation is based on the strong
connection between all social partners in the metropol region. The guidance stuff in this sense
hast the role of a networker and a case manager who brings the instances together which can
be helpful for a single youngster. The project and its outcomes will be evaluated by some
benchmarks, especially the duration for the first transition, the rate of drop outs and the
number of break offs in the vocational training. The examples in chapter IV are also examples
of innovation in school.
Greece
The gap from school or anyone else educational institution to the world of work, still remains a
problem. There are two axes, the information for the labour market and the preparation, the
development of the personal characteristics for the world of work. The part of information
includes information about different jobs, the every day life of a professional, the difficulties
the studies required, the perspectives etc.
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