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Working and ageing
242 Guidance and counselling for mature learners

a function of new demands placed on the system and its operatorsʼ (Gomes
and Capucha, 2010).
This reflects the ongoing challenge of lifelong learning, which has to be
embraced in public policies designed to promote it and in strategies drawn up
to support it, as is the case with guidance and counselling given to adults on
qualification pathways.

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