Comments about PgCert-PgDip-MSc Careers Guidance and Vocational Development - At the institution - Glasgow - Scotland
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Objectives
The course also prepares students to: * support the development of enterprise, employability and career learning in schools, colleges and universities; * provide support to individuals in training and learning, including those wishing to change or improve their career * encourage workforce and community development. Career guidance and vocational development provision benefits individuals, communities and economic development, and supports social inclusion and justice
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Entry requirements
This course is intended for students who wish to become careers advisers in order to help individuals of all ages to assess their skills and aspirations, recognise the choices open to them, make decisions on education, training and work opportunities and develop the skills to enter, continue and progress in work or learning.
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Academic title
PgCert/PgDip/MSc Careers Guidance and Vocational Development
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Course description
Awards
The programme is offered at Postgraduate Certificate, Diploma and MSc level, with professional recognition awarded at Diploma level or above. All modules are at Masters level.
Methods of Study
A career guidance course has been delivered at the University of Strathclyde for over 30 years. Regular revision ensures the course is up-to-date and relevant. The recently revised programme has several innovative features:
* Modes of study can be full-time, part-time or by distance learning (although most students are likely to be full-time)
* New MSc route for those completing to Diploma level, and a new MSc research route for previous Diplomates
Postgraduate Certificate
The Certificate, if studied full-time, will be delivered over one semester. Modules include:
* Professional Practice 1: introduction to models and skills for counselling; interviewing; person-centred practice; group work and presentation skills.
* Reflective Professional Enquiry 1: ethics, values, equal opportunities; self/peer reflection; critical reflection of own and others' roles; effective use of appropriate systems of supervision; build and sustain constructive working relationships.
* Career Related Information and Learning: education and learning systems and structures; enterprise and career education; work-related learning; provision and standards in career information.
* Labour Market Studies: training and labour market structures and trends; recruitment policies and practices; local, national and global labour markets; barriers to employment and strategies to support clients entering employment.
Postgraduate Diploma
Full-time students study a further four modules in semester 2:
* Professional Practice 2: theories and concepts in contemporary post-modern models such as narrative and constructivist approaches to interviewing; diagnostic tools/identification of need; client-centred and motivational techniques in group work and presentation skills with a range of clients.
* Reflective Professional Enquiry 2: dilemmas in client work; qualitative enquiry skills and evidence-based research; self and peer review; work-based learning.
* Vocational Development Theory: psychological and sociological theories of career development; critical evaluation of theories and models; implications of theory for professional practice, including assessment.
* Policy and Organisation: history and development of career guidance (and international dimensions); social, economic, and educational contexts for career guidance; provision and delivery of services; partnerships and interagency working.
Practice-Based Learning
Students' learning will be linked into practice in a variety of ways throughout the course. In each semester, there will be periods of block placements in career guidance centres and shorter placements with organisations such as schools, universities, colleges and other guidance agencies. Block placements may be in any part of the UK.
