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Studievalg København CASE STORY

– a Regional Guidance Centre By Deputy Manager and
Guidance Counsellor
Jan Svendsen

Our guidance services are related Other themes include the edu- Through these events, we ensure
to choice of higher education. cational system and different that the students are confronted
Guidance activities differ accord- higher education programmes, with different perspectives on
ing to target group, but gener- careers and entrepreneurship higher education several times
ally speaking, our main objective as well as admission proce- during their two to three years
is to put our clients in a position dures; in upper secondary educa-
where they themselves are capa- • group counselling sessions for tion. Each guidance counsel-
ble of making qualified decisions students having difficulties lor at Studievalg København
regarding choice of higher edu- choosing higher education; is responsible for a number of
cation. • meetings to which the parents schools. This ensures that the
are also invited; students become familiar with
For students in general upper • individual guidance for stu- the guidance counsellor. At the
secondary education, which dents at their school. same time, we remain “neutral
gives access to the entire
range of higher education
programmes, we offer at each
school in our area:
• four obligatory workshops
or seminars, focusing on
the three steps of choosing
higher education: motiva-
tion, overview and details.
Tools developed by Studievalg
København as well as
IT-related working tools are
used in the workshops in
order to put the students in a
position of being capable of
choosing a higher education
programme by themselves.

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