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Counsellors have also have stressed the need for more career education already in the first
three grades of compulsory school where students get much more detailed information on
what it means to hold a certain position. Thus, it is hoped that it will be easier for them to find
a path that suits their interest instead of wasting a lot of time trying one path after another,
never completing any of them.
The Icelandic Educational and Vocational Guidance Association
has the main objectives of enchancing counselling, increasing
cohesion between counsellors, and advancing their interests in
the broadest sense. Additionally it is there to enchance research
in the field of guidance, and to further co-operation with foreign
counsellors.
4. Guidance at post-secondary
non-tertiary level
Post-secondary IVET is still fairly limited, but growing. Different courses are offered at
various institutions which provide certification for well-defined professions. The age of
students varies because many have spent some years on the labour market.
As education and training varies at this level, guidance is also of various types. Usually the
same system applies here as in upper secondary education.
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