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NICEC is a Fellowship of people committed to understanding and developing career education and guidance practice and policy in the UK and across the globe.

Our site aims to inform visitors of latest developments, NICEC events and news related to the NICEC Journal. Fellows and NICEC Members have access to the Journal and event materials via our Members’ site.

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Welcome to NICEC’s new website! Whilst the content is substantially the same as before, we hope that it is easier to navigate around the site and visitors find the design attractive. A significant change is that there is now just one private area for Fellows and Members which provides access to back copies of the NICEC Journal and materials from NICEC Seminars and Network Meetings.

Open Call for Papers

Journal of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling:
April 2019 Issue

NICEC has an open call for papers for the April 2019 issue of the journal. Topics of interest could include.

Career development issues for LGBTQI people (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex)
Social justice, critical pedagogical and emancipatory practices
Neglected or under-researched service user groups
Innovation in theory, policy, research, and practice
Current labour market issues and transnational perspectives

Expressions of interest need to be submitted by 19th November 2018.
More information can be found here

NICEC conference 2019

Changing boundaries: career, identity and self: An international conference on research, practice and policy in career development

Date: 16^th and 17^th April 2019
Venue: Chancellor’s Conference Centre, Manchester
Abstract Deadline: September 30^th 2018

CALL FOR PAPERS
The Fellows of the National Institute for Career Education and Counselling (NICEC) are delighted to invite you to take part in a two day conference to share perspectives on current and changing relationships between theory, practice and policy in career development.

Confirmed keynote speakers include Mary McMahon, Senior Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Queensland, Australia, Michael Arthur, Professor of Strategy and International Business, Suffolk University, USA, Rie Thomsen, Professor MSO in Career Guidance, Aarhus University, Denmark and John Amaechi, OBE, psychologist, consultant and basketball player.

Bookings are also now open for the conference. Please use the link below. There are discounts for members/fellows and for contributors.
There are lots of price options so do read carefully before selecting your ‘ticket’. If someone makes bookings for you and your colleagues, do please ask them to make a separate booking for each of you; that way we know who is attending.

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/changing-boundaries-career-identity-and-self-an-international-conference-on-research-practice-and-tickets-48343197806

If you need accommodation the night before on April 15^th please book direct with the Chancellors Centre mentioning the special discounted rate arranged for the NICEC conference of £99 for 3 course dinner, bed and breakfast.

Next NICEC event

Thursday 22^nd November Seminar 5.00-6.30pm, Hamilton House, London

Girls’ career decision-making
Charlotte Chadderton - NICEC Fellow and Professor of Education, Bath Spa University

The responsibility for career guidance and transitions support for young people in England shifted to schools in 2012, and research shows that guidance and support varies enormously from school to school. In this paper I report on a project which is tracking a group of female pupils from a single school over five years (2014-19) to explore how they make educational decisions and what influences their aspirations in this context. The school, located in a disadvantaged area of Tower Hamlets in London, has put in place a programme of enhanced careers education and guidance. The study focuses on the perspectives of the young women, and investigates their different experiences of this school-based careers programme and what influences their shifting aspirations and decisions in this age of austerity. I discuss some of the emerging findings of this still ongoing project, focussing on areas such as the influence of family and friends, gender, social disadvantage, race, religion, social values, ideas of what makes a ‘good life’, and work experience and volunteering.

Our seminars are participatory and designed to enable informed discussion on important topics in our work. Charlotte will present her findings and give participants an opportunity to ask questions and discuss the emerging findings.

The project is funded by Aldgate and All Hallows Foundation, Tower Hamlets.
Booking ingotmation can be found here

Bill Law Student Memorial Award

NICEC is delighted to invite entries to the Bill Law student Memorial Award. We welcome entries from recent or current students on formal courses or training programmes as well as those undertaking CPD. Entries should be submitted between 30th September 2018 and 30th January 2019. Good luck!

Information about the application process can be found here

Data protection
In line with new GDPR requirements NICEC has reviewed its data protection policy. Information about the data we store can be found here

Indian Journal of Career and Livelihood Planning

The new issue (Volume 6, Issue 1) of the Indian Journal of Career and Livelihood Planning (IJCLP), is now online.

The papers in this issue are an interesting and wide ranging collection. In summary:

Vipin Negi and Sachin Kumar discuss the implications of the now increasingly common nonstandard forms of employment.
Shashidhar Jagadeeshan draws upon his vast experience as a teacher to present the nuances of introducing students to the complex world of work they will shortly enter.
Peter Robertson draws our attention to the contributions of Roy Bhaskar and Amartya Sen and presents the possibility of using their ideas as frameworks for new approaches to career guidance.
From a practitioner dimension, Maribon Viray presents the findings of a quasi-experimental study of a school based career guidance intervention which shows significant improvements in career preparation status and a reduction in the negativity of career beliefs after the intervention.
Sandra Buela, Rayan Miranda and Sajma Aravind examine the Government of India’s skill development initiatives and make the point that the interface between skill development and career guidance initiatives, not only in India but in many other countries, remains weak.
Jyothis Paul’s report of career guidance services in the South Indian state of Kerala provides a shining example of what can be done for the systematic delivery of career guidance services through the State.

Please click on the following url or copy and paste it to your browser to access the issue: http://www.iaclp.org/indian_journal_of_career_and_livelihood_planning/current_journal

As you know IJCLP is an entirely open access journal. Do feel free to send this information on to others in your network. We would like as many people as possible to benefit from the IJCLP.
We welcome you to either submit a manuscript of your work to be considered for publication in the IJCLP or, encourage others to submit. Further information is available here on our website: http://www.iaclp.org/yahoo_site_admin/assets/docs/10_Instructions

Latest NICEC journal

The latest NICEC journal April 2018 is now available

The issue reflects on the complexity of 'career' and the need for an informed critique and a creative response to provide services relevant in the 21st century.

A few examples of articles include

Seeking the good life - higher education careers services and moral philosophy by Donald Lush
Waiting for a career epiphany- a barrier to career decision making? - Kathleen Houston and Eileen Cunningham
A critical response to Hooley's Seven Cs of digital literacy by Tom Staunton

More information about this issue can be found here.

ICCDPP Symposium - South Korea
In June 2017 the 18th symposium of the International Centre for Career Development and Public Policy took place in South Korea. The event was attended by over 20 countries each of which produced a paper prior to the event documenting their approaches and strategies to career development issues in their country.

The UK was represented by delegates from England, Scotland and Wales. Copies of their papers and those produced by the other countries can be found here

The Communique detailing the outcomes from the conference can be found here

Tony Watts Reader Professor Tony Watts is a pre-eminent figure in the field of career guidance. He retired in late 2014 after a 50 year career in the field. This single volume is dedicated to anthologising his work in a way that is accessible to students, policy makers, researchers and practitioners and contains Watts’ most enduring and key writings about career guidance.

You can obtain this unique publication via the Lulu website
https://www.lulu.com/shop

If you are NICEC Fellow or Member and need information or a reminder of your password for the private area of the website please contact membership@nicec.org

We now have online access to the NICEC Journal for Fellows, Members and subscribers. See the Journal page for details.