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NICEC is a network of Fellows, in the UK and abroad, who are career education and counselling researchers and practitioners drawn from a wide range of settings. Fellows believe passionately in improving policy and practice through discovering and sharing evidence and developing career education and counselling theory.

We share our knowledge and learn from others through our Seminar series, the NICEC Journal and our publications. NICEC Members receive the Journal and attend Seminars at discounted rates. Why not join us and contribute to developing career guidance practice, theory and policy.


If you have any questions please contact Leigh Henderson on 07970 829225 or at info@nicec.org, or as suggested elsewhere on the site.


Allister McGowan, NICEC Chair
 

Latest news!       

Last update: 5th January 2012

• NICEC Seminar 24 November 2011

Systems thinking: what does it offer career theory and practice?

For an outline of meeting, including slides and references, members should visit the Members’ area.

• Congratulations to Dr. Deirdre Hughes on the award of the OBE in the New Years Honours list.
• It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Pamela Clayton. Pamela was a valued colleague and friend of many NICEC Fellows who contributed a great deal to the body of knowledge on career guidance.
• NICEC has submitted suggestions for strengthening the DfE’s draft Statutory Guidance for Schools on Careers Guidance for Young People. A copy can be found here.
• NICEC Fellow Charles Jackson completed his work as internal evaluator of the DOCENT project (Doctors in Enterprise, a 24 month project financed by the European Commission Lifelong Learning Programme) with a presentation at the project’s final meeting in Bologna in October. 

The project aimed to enhance the employability of technical and scientific PhD students through the development, testing and exploitation of innovative training modules for the development of transferable skills and by outlining a new model for university career counselling services. Project partners were from Italy, Malta, Spain and the UK.

 For further information, go to: www.docentproject.eu

• Call for Papers: NICEC Journal Issue 28 for publication in May 2012

     Theme: Innovation in theory and practice

Click here for information.

• Issue 27 of the NICEC Journal was published in November: for details including contents, click the cover image:    
• Careers England has submitted evidence to the Social Mobility and Child Poverty Commission, chaired by Alan Milburn MP. and can be found here.The UK Careers Sector Forum’s submission is here.
• A new report was published 17th October by Careers England – Looking to the future, written by NICEC Fellow, Leigh Henderson: the impact of career guidance in England – read the report here. It is aimed at the Report Stage of the Education Bill in the House of Lords.
• Liane Hambly’s report entitled ‘Service or Disservice? An investigation into the impact of Customer Relationship Management (CRM) on service delivery in the Adult Careers Service in England’ is here. There are some interesting insights into practice!
• A very useful progress chart for the National Careers Service has been published by BIS. It is available here.