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National Guidance Portal

The national guidance portal: The portal provides different From the portal you can easily
www.ug.dk launched by the types of guidance tools facili- find and reach the regional guid-
Ministry of Education is an ICT- tating the choice of education, ance centres, the youth guidance
based careers information and occupation and careers. centres, eGuidance and the edu-
guidance portal. The portal cational institutions. It also gives
provides citizens – young people The portal also provides spe- access to important and updated
and adults – with substantial cific entries for different target information, guidance tools and
careers information in order for groups: relevant websites.
them to make qualified decisions • young people seeking youth
about education, training and education programmes The portal is being updated on
careers. • young people seeking higher a day to day basis in order to
education programmes have new and updated informa-
The portal provides comprehen- • persons seeking adult educa- tion available all the time. Users
sive and up-to-date information tion programmes have the possibility of getting
on: • parents wanting to support electronic newsletters whenever
• youth education and training their children in their choice there are relevant news in the
programmes of education field of guidance, education and
• higher education programmes labour market
• occupations/professions
• labour market issues
• study programmes taught in
English at Danish colleges and
universities

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