> Subject: IAEVG Declaration on Educational and Vocational
> Guidance: The International Association for Educational and Vocational
> Guidance, IAEVG, is the world wide counsellors´ association and
> represents individuals as well as national and regional associations
> con
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> IAEVG Declaration on Educational and Vocational Guidance
> The International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance,
> IAEVG, is the world wide counsellors´ association and represents
> individuals as well as national and regional associations concerned
> with educational and vocational guidance on all continents.
> The objectives of the Association are
> * to promote and improve communication between people and
> organisations active in educational and vocational guidance;
> * to encourage the continuing professional development of ideas,
> practice, and research in the field of guidance and counselling;
> * to collect and disseminate information on latest educational and
> vocational guidance practice, study and research.
> As an NGO, IAEVG works closely with major international organisations
> such as UNESCO, ILO, OECD, EU and others to further international
> co-operation for the development of human resources through guidance
> and counselling.
> IAEVG urges governments or agencies responsible for promoting human
> resource development to ensure the establishment and maintenance of
> adequate educational and vocational guidance services.
> On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of IAEVG, in September 2001
> the Board of Directors adopted at the 69th Board Meeting a Declaration
> on Educational and Vocational Guidance in Paris. The full text of the
> Declaration reads as follows:
> "Effective educational and vocational guidance and counselling can
> assist individuals to understand their talents and potential and
> enable them to plan the appropriate steps to develop essential skills
> that will lead to personal, educational, economic and social
> advancement for the individual, family, community and nation. Quality
> educational and vocational guidance, counselling and management is a
> regular and continuous process, it is not a single intervention. It
> accompanies and enhances life-long and life-wide learning and helps
> individuals to avoid or shorten periods of unemployment. Educational
> and vocational guidance and counselling contributes to equality of
> opportunity. High quality educational and vocational counselling not
> only aids the personal development and career opportunities of every
> individual, but also contributes to wider social, economic and
> sustainable development as a whole.
> The International Association for Educational and Vocational Guidance
> declares services to be essential in meeting personal, social and
> economic development needs and to encourage further sustainable
> development in a knowledge-based society.
> * Each person - regardless of gender, education, race, religion,
> age or occupational status - should have free and easy access to
> educational and vocational guidance so that their individual
> capabilities and skills can be identified and developed to enable them
> to undertake adequate education, vocational training and employment,
> to adapt to changing individual and social life situations and to
> participate fully in the social and economic life of their community.
> * Special target groups, i.e. persons with disabilities and social
> disadvantages, should be provided with career counselling that uses
> appropriate methods and counselling that take into account their
> particular needs and communication requirements.
> * Educational and vocational guidance providers should meet
> recognised quality standards of counsellor training and service
> delivery.
> * Educational and vocational guidance services provided must
> guarantee impartiality and confidentiality and should proceed with the
> voluntary and active participation of their clients.
> * Everyone who needs and wants educational and vocational guidance
> and counselling should have access to it based on need and from a
> competent and professionally recognised counsellor, whose profession
> is founded on the respect for human dignity and for different ways of
> living within communities.
> * All educational and vocational guidance counsellors should have
> specified competencies and participate in continuing professional
> development programmes to enhance their skills and keep their
> professional knowledge up-to-date.
> * As the training and performance of counsellors has to be
> supervised, the effectiveness of guidance services should be monitored
> through regular evaluation and relevant research studies.
> * All counsellors and agencies providing educational and
> vocational guidance and counselling should be committed to recognised
> quality standards and endorse and follow a code of ethics in
> accordance with the 1995 IAEVG Ethical Standards."
> For more information, please contact Linda Taylor, Secretary-General,
> IAEVG, UK, fax [+44] (137) 6391400, email:
> linda.taylor@careersbp.co.uk <mailto:linda.taylor@careersbp.co.uk>,
> IAEVG web site: www.iaevg.org <http://www.iaevg.org>.
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