Research Briefings and Reports
NICEC undertook a wide range of research contracts and consultations until 2010. This archive contains a selection of that research output.
This page contains the NICEC publications for which we hold digital copies. It will be in strict alphabetical order (including definite article 'The') but please bear with anomalies whilst this is work in progress. We are currently also working on lists which will be searchable by author and year. We intend to complete this work by September 2022.
Many publications make reference to obtaining print copies or further resources, but such references are largely out of date.
Adult guidance in community settings (Briefing 1998)
Advocacy in career guidance (Briefing 1998)
Career development of under-employed graduates (Briefing 2000)
Career guidance for the Third Age [Briefing 1996]
Career guidance mentoring for disengaged young people [Briefing 1998]
Career management skills and the older workforce [Report 2008]
Career related learning in primary schools [Briefing 1998]
Careers work and school effectiveness [Briefing 1999]
Choosing science at 16 (Briefing 2000)
Community-based guidance and social exclusion (Briefing 1998)
Constructs of work used in career guidance (Briefing 1998)
Constructs of work used in career guidance (Report 1998)
Developing a research culture in career education and guidance (Briefing 1998)
Developing career management skills in higher education (Report 1998)
Developing careers work in schools: issues and considerations (Report 2006)
Developing careers work in schools: learning from experience (Briefing 2006)
Economic benefits of career guidance (Briefing 1992)
Employment and training advice for refugees: what works? (Briefing 2005)
Growing guidance in the community (Briefing 2000)
Guidance for adults: harnessing partnership potential (Briefing 2001)
Helping young asylum seekers to plan learning and work (Report 2009) - see also Young asylum seekers (Briefing)
Home Internationals: adult guidance policy developments in Britain and Ireland (Briefing 1999)
Home Internationals 2: lifelong guidance for economic and social success (Briefing 2001)
How career decisions are made (Briefing 1996)
ICT and the over 50s: do telephone advice lines and computers make it harder for older people to use career guidance services? (Briefing 2008)
ICT and the over 50s: overcoming barriers to employment and training advice (Report 2008)
ICT Skills2: ICT tools and training for career guidance practitioners (Report 2009) - see also Workforce Development - UK
Implications of Connexions for careers education and guidance in schools (Briefing 2000)
Informing choices: the need for career advice in medical training (Briefing 2003)
Informing choices: the need for career advice in medical training (Report 2003)
Local lifelong guidance strategies (Briefing 1996)
Managing careers work in schools (Briefing 1998)
Managing careers work in schools (Report 1998)
Managing e-guidance interventions within HE careers service: a new approach to providing guidance at a distance (Executive summary 2003)
Networking PROSPECT (HE) (Briefing 1999)
New DOTS: career learning for the contemporary world (Briefing 2001)
New skills for new futures: higher education guidance and counselling services in the UK (Report 1998)
Personal learning planning: a framework for lifelong career development (Briefing 1999)
Practical tips for effective career discussions at work (NICEC Guide 2001) - see also Straight talking
Progression in careers education (Briefing 1998)
Quality guidance: a sectoral analysis (Report 2000)
Social benefits of career guidance (Briefing 1999)
Staff development for careers work in schools and sixth-form colleges (Briefing 1995)
Straight talking: effective career discussions at work (Briefing 2001) - see also Practical tips
Straight talking: effective career discussions at work (Report 2001) - see also Practical tips
Strategic directions for careers services in higher education (Briefing 1997)
Strategic directions for careers services in higher education (Report 1997)
The career counsellor as broker between demand and supply in adult education (Briefing 2002)
The learning society: the role of adult guidance (Briefing 1996)
The Real Game: evaluation of the UK national pilot (Briefing 1999)
The relationship between career guidance and financial guidance (Briefing 1999)
The University for Industry and local information, advice and guidance partnerships (Briefing 1999)
The use of Information & Communication Technologies in the Connexions service (Briefing 2000)
Trade Unions and lifelong guidance (Briefing 1998)
Workforce development and the use of ICT in delivering career guidance in the UK (Report 2009) - see also ICT Skills2
Young asylum seekers: what help do they need to plan learning and work? (Briefing 2009) - see also Helping young asylum seekers (report)
Career(s) education in schools in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland (Briefing 2002)
Leading and managing careers work in schools: the changing role of the careers co-ordinator (Briefing 2004)
Careers services: technology and the future (Report 2001)
Exploring career-related learning in primary schools (Briefing 2000)
Recruiting PhDs: what works? (Report 2007)
Schools and careers services (Briefing 1996)