Careers Europe

The E-Newsletter

July 2007

‘The Professionalisation of APEL (Accreditation of Prior Learning) practitioners.’

Date: September 10-11th 2007 (afternoon Monday and all day Tuesday)

Venue: New Parliament House Regent Road (side of Calton Hill) - Edinburgh

The final conference of the EuroguideVAL project will examine the provision of activities, education and educative devices for professionals working in the field of APEL (Accreditation of Prior Learning) and RPL (Recognition of Prior Learning), and the identification, recognition and assessment of non-formal and informal lifelong learning from a European perspective. It will involve those working (or potentially working) with information, advice and guidance on APEL, as well as towards the assessment and validation of lifelong informal and non-formal learning.

Key personalities involved in the professionalisation of practitioners active in the field of APEL and RPL throughout Europe will participate in this conference, having been invited by various partners involved in the project.

For further information and online registration go to this link www.euroguideval.org

Euroguideval has been co-financed by the European Commission Leonardo da Vinci programme.

Academia Exchange 2008

We are intending to offer placements for UK Guidance Counsellors in other European countries again next year.  Please keep an eye on our website for details of this exciting opportunity to learn from your professional colleagues in Europe.

Meet Careers Europe

We will be attending the following conferences and will have a display stand where you can meet us:

NAEGA 4th to 6th July 2008, Manchester

ACEG 5th to 7th July 2008, Stratford upon Avon

IAEVG Conference

The annual IAEVG conference will be held in Padova, Italy in the week commencing 3rd September this year.  The theme Guidance and Diversity will cover theoretical reflections, comparative issues, research models, and guidance practice on how to integrate and to handle diversity in educational and vocational guidance. Four main sub-topics: Realities of Diversity; Challenges for guidance practice; Challenges for employment systems; Diversity and new paradigms in guidance theory development, practice and training.

For more information go to: www.iaevg.org