Values at Work:

a qualitative study of careers education in higher education

Published: June 2009; Pages: 68; File Size: 2.7MB

Values at Work: a qualitative study of careers education in higher education

This PROP report presented by Julia Horn, of the Centre for Careers Management Skills at the University of Reading, looks at careeers education practices within institutions and also at the ideas and debates that careers professionals are engaging in.

The context for this project, undertaken between 2007-2009, was a changing economic situation and the consequent shift in thinking about what careers education might mean for students and what forms it might take in higher education. 

The conclusions that can be explored in depth in Values for Work are:

• Careers education in not a direct replica of careers service activities.
• Careers education is developing new forms of learning and achievement.
• There is a need for further investigation into teaching and learning about "career".
• Careers education needs advocates who can explore and explain a wide range of potential benefits from learning about "career".
• Individuals are developing new expertise in teaching and learning "career".
• Diversity should be celebrated .
• Divisions between "academia" and "the real world are troubling" in work with "career".