vocational guidance

vocational guidance means a range of activities such as counselling, information, assessment and advice, to assist people to make choices relating to initial and continuing vocational education and vocational training programmes, and to employment opportunities,

b vocational guidance, training, retraining and rehabilitation;

4 to provide or promote appropriate vocational guidance, training and rehabilitation.

- The right to vocational guidance

Good career guidance and counselling combined with a more flexible and diverse (and therefore attractive) curriculum help to reduce dropout rates.

Article 9 - The right to vocational guidance

(d) Enable persons with disabilities to have effective access to general technical and vocational guidance programmes, placement services and vocational and continuing training;

9 Everyone has the right to appropriate facilities for vocational guidance with a view to helping him choose an occupation suited to his personal aptitude and interests.

a to enable workers with family responsibilities to enter and remain in employment, as well as to reenter employment after an absence due to those responsibilities, including measures in the field of vocational guidance and training;

On the basis of an analysis of the situation, the Resolution on the National Programme for Equal Opportunities for Women and Men defines principal policy orientations of the equal opportunities policy in all key areas of social life.

With a view to ensuring the effective exercise of the right to vocational guidance, the Parties undertake to provide or promote, as necessary, a service which will assist all persons, including the handicapped, to solve problems related to occupational choice and progress, with due regard to the individual` s characteristics and their relation to occupational opportunity:

Croatia reforms and strengthens the State Judicial Council and State Prosecutorial Council (including through the election by peers of professional members) so that these bodies perform professionally, impartially and without political or other interference their key functions, in particular in the appointment, career management and disciplining of judges and prosecutors.

Fund assistance may also be granted for people to be engaged as instructors, vocational-guidance or placement experts or development agents.

vocational training and guidance;

'The Commission states that Fund assistance, restricted to the training of placement experts, excluding any contribution towards the remuneration of public agents will be granted when the functioning of the management of the labour market is in need of improvement.'

whereas to achieve this the range of people eligible for assistance should be enlarged so as to extend in particular the possibility of assistance to those working as trainers, vocational guidance or placement experts, and development agents;

TO A PERMANENT SYSTEM OF INFORMATION AND GUIDANCE OR VOCATIONAL ADVICE, FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND ADULTS, BASED ON THE KNOWLEDGE OF INDIVIDUAL CAPABILITIES, TRAINING FACILITIES AND EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES, OPERATING IN CLOSE CO-OPERATION WITH THE PRODUCTIVE AND DISTRIBUTIVE SECTORS OF THE ECONOMY, VOCATIONAL TRAINING SERVICES AND SCHOOLS;

(c) access to vocational guidance, initial and further training and retraining.

developing European arrangements for vocational guidance, counselling and vocational training in business-related services.

without prejudice to the freedom granted in certain Member States to certain private training establishments, vocational guidance, vocational training, advanced vocational training and retraining shall be accessible on the basis of the same criteria and at the same levels without any discrimination on grounds of sex.

between undertakings, on the one hand, and vocational training organisations or universities, on the other, targeting human resources managers in the business sector, and vocational training programme planners and managers, particularly trainers, and occupational guidance specialists,

Such transnational pilot projects may relate to the development of quality in vocational training, to the development of new methods of vocational training and to vocational guidance in the context of lifelong learning.

structured exchanges of students, teachers, trainers, administrators, human resource managers, vocational training programme planners and managers, trainers and occupational guidance specialists in either higher education institutions or vocational training organisations,

access to vocational guidance, initial and further training and retraining.

Application of the principle of equal treatment with regard to access to all types and to all levels, of vocational guidance, vocational training, advanced vocational training and retraining, means that Member States shall take all necessary measures to ensure that: (a) any laws, regulations and administrative provisions contrary to the principle of equal treatment shall be abolished;

is not such as to be harmful to their attendance at school, their participation in vocational guidance or training programmes approved by the competent authority or their capacity to benefit from the instruction received;

are not such as to be harmful to their attendance at school, their participation in vocational guidance or training programmes approved by the competent authority or their capacity to benefit from the instruction received.

The first-aid rooms must have suitable equipment, facilities and medicines and a sufficient number of specialized workers, as required by the circumstances, for giving first-aid or, where necessary, treatment under the direction of a registered medical practitioner (who may or may not be present).

education and vocational training - including vocational training equivalent to compulsory schooling - apprenticeships, pre-training, in particular the provision and upgrading of basic skills, rehabilitation in employment, measures to promote employability on the labour market, guidance, counselling and continuing training;