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2� 5� 1�1 in schools up to the tertiary
professional level

StrengthS
The legislative basis for school counselling
services, defining their standard activities;
distributing the performance of counselling ser-
vices between the school and school guidance
facilities, which have the relevant professionals
and diagnostic tools and methods, and which
generally serve a number of schools in any one
region�

WeakneSSeS
Insufficient capacity of educational counselling
to cover all standard operations, over-concen-
tration of different types of tasks to be carried
out by an educational counsellor, the insuffi-
cient capacity of most school guidance facilities,
the regions’ responsibility for educational coun-
selling and methodological guidance from the
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports (MEYS),
which is not carried out to a sufficient extent,
the non-systemic participation of counsellors in
further education�

2� 5� 1�2 in higher education 2� 5� 2 in the employment
institutions
sector

StrengthS
A legislative basis that gives higher education Labour market information is provided in
institutions the freedom to choose which schools in cooperation with the local Infor-
guidance and counselling services are provided, mation and Counselling Centres schools also
active cooperation between higher education usually organise a number of visits for students
counselling centres under the Association to the centres� The services in these centres are
of university guidance counsellors (Asociace dependent on the numbers of individual
vysokoškolských poradců)� counsellors and centres are facing capacity
problems due to staff reductions�
WeakneSSeS
Non-systemic financial and material support As for career planning support for adults,
from the state and higher education institutions the Labour Office specialises in counselling for
themselves, inadequate staffing� the unemployed� Career counselling is seen
as inadequate due to the lack of a systemat-
ic framework and staffing deficiencies and
its availability is generally uncoordinated� In
both the regions surveyed by the case study,
fewer than one quarter of the newly registered
unemployed receive counselling during the first
few months after they begin claiming benefits�

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