The Euro-Mediterranean Centre for Educational Research (EMCER) hosted 13 partners involved in an ERASMUS+ project focusing on improving Career Guidance services in secondary schools.
The international guests hailed from Denmark, Italy, Romania and the UK, with the lead partner being the University of Camerino. The two-year project sets out to facilitate youth transitions by developing quality frameworks in the provision of career education and career management skills, exploring in particular the mobilization of digital technologies in enhancing access to services.
The international guests hailed from Denmark, Italy, Romania and the UK, with the lead partner being the University of Camerino. The two-year project sets out to facilitate youth transitions by developing quality frameworks in the provision of career education and career management skills, exploring in particular the mobilization of digital technologies in enhancing access to services.
Malta’s major input is the development of a Handbook that sets out a context for quality assurance of career services in schools. The Handbook adopts an approach critical of New Public Management styles of QA, promoting instead notions of a self-regulating profession led by a community of reflective practitioners. The draft Handbook, authored by EMCER director Professor Ronald G. Sultana, was launched at a multiplier event held at ESPLORA in the MCST Bighi complex, a conference that was attended by career advisers, representatives from the National School Support Services, University academics and researchers, and other interested parties. The Handbook is now being piloted in a number of countries before it is published and disseminated internationally. International guests also spoke about career services in their respective countries, with Dr Manwel Debono (Centre for Labour Studies) and Ms Dorianne Gravina (NSSS) presenting recent developments in career guidance in Malta.
Another aspect of the MYFUTURE project is the auditing of the training needs of career advisers in the partner countries. This research is coordinated by the University of Derby with Ms Christine Garzia responsible for the Malta input.