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NICEC works with and on behalf of a wide range of partners and clients. Below are some examples of current and recent work undertaken by the NICEC Fellows. For more information on NICEC's current work, please contact NICEC by email or by telephone on 01223 448 504.
ICT2 - Skills for e-guidance practitioners
NICEC has been a partner in the ICT Skills project. It has built on the achievements of a previous project to map the ICT competencies required by guidance practitioners.
The ICT Skills 2 project aims to develop innovative online resources and tools to support the training, assessment and accreditation of guidance practitioners working in lifelong learning settings such as schools, colleges, training organisations, higher education institutions and adult and community programmes.
The outcomes of the project include a free open source platform that will be maintained beyond the life of the project. This platform will give practitioners access to an e-portfolio, an online self-assessment skills tool and a modular training framework. The framework will have a credit value based on the European Credit Transfer System (ECTS).
The framework, tools and resources have been piloted in the UK by the School of Psychology at the University of East London in the first half of 2009. For further information, please contact Nelica La Gro, DCG (QCG) Programme Leader.
Career Guidance for Workforce Development
This research project has been conducted for the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP). The report reviews practice across the EU. Key issues emerging from the research include:
- how to build the capacity to deliver more effective support
- the impact of new modes of delivery, such as ICT, on career development practice
- the disconnect between provision inside and outside the workplace
- the increasing role played by intermediaries, such as Trade Unions, recruitment consultancies and private providers, in the provision of career development support to employed people.
The report is now available from CEDEFOP.
Dr. Charles Jackson represented the project as a keynote speaker at CEDEFOP's conference 'Guidance for Workforce Development' in Thessaloniki in late June 2007. NICEC Fellows Dr. Wendy Hirsh, Ruth Hawthorn and Lesley Haughton were also keynote speakers at this event.
Career Planning Support for Young Refugees and Asylum Seekers
The Paul Hamlyn Foundation is funding NICEC to evaluate the career planning support available to young refugees and asylum-seekers (YRASs) in Leicester. NICEC Senior Fellows Ruth Hawthorn and Barbara McGowan will be working with staff in Leicestershire Connexions, training YRASs to work with the research team first as researchers and then as trainers to offer training to local agencies, in order to improve the offer to this target group. Download the NICEC briefing.