This article is written by Ulla Højmark Jensen, PhD at The Danish University of Education. The article will focus on young people without an education and their respective experiences and moti-vational factors in relation to education. The focus is on illuminating some of the mechanisms be-hind the choices made by youth in relation to education. Counselling is perceived very differently by different groups of uneducated youth - a circumstance that raises considerable demands of the counselling measures and the individual counsellor and his/her familiarity with the young person's situation