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There are practically no educational programmes for secondary school counsellors available
As far as education of secondary school counsellors is concerned, I can say that there are no suitable undergraduate programmes as part Pedagogy, Psychology or Social pedagogy study programme. Counsellors are not trained well enough to provide educational and career counselling. There are no extensive training programmes, only very few short seminars, organised by the National Education Institute of Slovenia and Employment Service of Slovenia. The reason for this is probably the lack of finances and staff. For efficient work, I would need more material and information, which should be updated yearly by the educational providers. For example, we lack detailed information on most desired professions, on the unemployment rates, on the future professions and on the development of the economy in Slovenia and EU.
Career guidance or career planning perhaps did not require so much attention before, because jobs were easier to "get". The consequence is that the demand for undergraduate education in this field is high and the supply is low. The existing undergraduate study programmes could be enriched with content and skills in order to train counsellors also in the field of career guidance.
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