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tioners. By means of presentations, lectures, regulatory bodies, the warranting of practitioners,
round tables and workshops a good overview as well as ethics and professional practice.
of the most recent developments and future
needs in the areas of guidance and mobility were The Serbian Euroguidance Centre offers professi-
covered. onal development opportunities for guidance prac-
titioners, mostly focusing on secondary school
Together with its main stakeholders, the Maltese level. In 2016, the Centre’s basic one-day training
Euroguidance Centre organised a number of trai- was accredited by the Institute for Education
ning sessions. These Continuous Professional De- Development, providing quality assurance for
velopment (CPD) events attracted over 300 guid- this training as well as allowing more teachers to
ance practitioners, educators involved in perso- attend it as part of their obligatory professional
nal, social and career development subjects and development. Eight such trainings were organi-
job advisors. The topics introduced were many, sed across the country and they were attended
such as how the participants can keep abreast by around 200 secondary school teachers. Fur-
with the opportunities beyond secondary schoo- thermore, an advanced one-day training was
ling that are available for their students and
how to translate market needs to business pla- piloted and additional support measures, such
nning. Practitioners became acquainted with gui- as organising webinars for practitioners or pro-
ding clients not engaged in formal and compul- viding individual support for improvement of gui-
sory education on how to start their own busi- dance services were added to the portfolio of
ness. The importance of CPD was emphasised the Serbian Euroguidance Centre. Moreover, the
by Dr Siobhan Neary (University of Derby) at Euroguidance Centre organised the first session
the Maltese Euroguidance annual conference on about guidance for the Master-level students
Professionalising the career guidance sector. The studying to become teachers at the Faculty of
annual conference also opened discussions rela- Philosophy, thus contributing to their initial trai-
ted to the role of career guidance associations as ning in guidance.

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