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Effectiveness of the Careers Service



About the project

The final report on this project on the effectiveness of the Careers Service in Scotland has now been published. The study, a joint project with Sheila Semple of the Centre for Careers Education and Guidance at the University of Strathclyde, mapped Careers Service provision across Scotland through interviews with staff in all of the Careers Companies and review of documentary sources. It developed a typology of Careers Companies which was used to analyse the variation across Companies and to select five Career Companies for in-depth study in the second stage of the research. In this second stage, in the five case study CSCs, surveys were conducted of senior students in selected schools, of employers and of training providers and an extensive programme of interviews with careers service staff and a wide range of 'stakeholders' completed. The final report is wide-ranging in its scope covering policy, management, operational and professional practice issues. The research informed the Review of the Careers Service set up by the Minister for Enterprise and Lifelong Learning in 2000.



Researchers


Cathy Howieson, (Centre for Educational Sociology, University of Edinburgh)
Sheila Semple (Centre for Careers Education and Guidance, University of Strathclyde)


Publications


Published and working papers from this project are posted on this site as they become available.


e-mail: c.newton@ed.ac.uk or phone no: 0131 651 6243

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