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Denmark: Aarhus University Lithuania: Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in
Kaunas
The Danish Act of Guidance was passed in 2003. It
is possible to earn a Post-Graduate Diploma or a The Career Designing Master’s research
Master’s degree in Career Guidance and programme was developed in 2006 at VMU to
Counselling (both 60 ECTS), or to specialize in cover 90 ECTS. It was planned to add 30 ECTS of
Career Guidance and Counselling within the practice to the research programme. However
Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration. A new issues related to emigration, economics and
elective module of 10 ECTS in Counselling as an politics have stopped this development, and in
institutional and pedagogical practice in the Master 2014 the programme was temporarily suspended.
of Education and Science started this autumn. The Bachelor level Career Management
programme of 240 ECTS was closed 2 years ago.
The 60 ECTS Master in Guidance programme Currently only 3rd and 4th year students are
structure is changing to offer fewer compulsory finishing their studies. There are ongoing
modules and more flexibility. New modules are discussions that may lead to re-opening the Career
being developed in the areas of career education, Designing Programme at Master level.
motivation, social justice and advocacy, and others.
Innovative group supervision on writing
Latvia: Latvia University of Life Sciences and
assignments and thesis work has helped students
to start writing sooner through receiving peer Technologies (LLU), Euroguidance Latvia
support.
The professional Master’s degree programme in
Career counselling delivered since 2007 is
Estonia: team from universities, national and
professional bodies regularly up-dated in response to stakeholder
feedback. The programme is based on the
Professional Standard for Career counsellors
The Estonian Lifelong Learning Strategy prioritise
(revised in 2011), the 2013 provisions for career
professionalisation of career guidance practitioners guidance in the Law on Education and the
and requirements are defined by the Estonian
European Competence Standards for the
Occupational Qualification Standard. The Academic Training of Career Professionals . The
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Association of Estonian Career counsellors is the
120 ECTS of the course lead to an EQF Level 7
national accreditation body. However, there is not qualification. About 60% of graduates work in the
yet a full programme of studies in career guidance
educational sector.
offered by any Estonian university. Tallinn
University offers elective courses for professional In the context of ESF funded national projects
development and courses in study programmes of reforming higher education, teacher training and
Social work and Youth work. The University of Tartu school curriculum, discussions with the Ministry of
offers a cross-departmental programme and a Education and Science are ongoing about the
professional programme at the Institute of reassignment of Career Counselling from the field
Psychology with a number of courses related to of education to some other currently undefined
Career guidance. Career guidance specialists field. This has implications for occupational
employed by the Estonian PES receive in-service standards, research and training of counsellors
training. The Euroguidance centre in Estonia also affecting four universities in Latvia.
offers seminars, study-visits and e-courses to
develop international competences.
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