OECD review of career guidance policies: Norway: country note

OECD’s Education Committee, together with its Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee, endorsed a new activity on policies for information, guidance and counselling services in 2000. The main aim of the activity is to understand how the organisation, management and delivery of these services can help to promote key policy activities such as lifelong learning for all and active labour market policies. Fourteen OECD countries were involved in this activity: Australia; Austria; Canada; the Czech Republic; Denmark; Finland; Germany; Ireland; Korea; Luxembourg; the Netherlands; Norway...  [+] Show more

OECD’s Education Committee, together with its Employment, Labour and Social Affairs Committee, endorsed a new activity on policies for information, guidance and counselling services in 2000. The main aim of the activity is to understand how the organisation, management and delivery of these services can help to promote key policy activities such as lifelong learning for all and active labour market policies. Fourteen OECD countries were involved in this activity: Australia; Austria; Canada; the Czech Republic; Denmark; Finland; Germany; Ireland; Korea; Luxembourg; the Netherlands; Norway; Spain; and the United Kingdom. Information was gathered using a national questionnaire, country visits, commissioned papers and meetings of national experts and policy makers.

This document is the country paper for Norway. It is based on the draft national questionnaire response and other documentation and provides a summary of the impressions of the review team and its suggestions for ways in which policies for career information, guidance and counselling might be developed in Norway. The document contains the following sections: Introduction; The context; The Norwegian guidance system; The main sectors (covering schools, other youth services, higher education, public employment service, adult education, private sector, and information provision); Key policy issues (which offers comments on the key topics of splitting educational/vocational guidance from personal counselling, a pupil entitlement, the role of Aetat (the public employment service), developing guidance services for adults, professional development and strategic coordination); and Conclusions.

Documents from this review are indexed from TD/TNC 73.122 to TD/TNC 73.151; Norway’s response to the national questionnaire is indexed at TD/TNC 73.125.