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           Denmark: Aarhus University                            Lithuania: Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) in
                                                                 Kaunas
           The Danish Act of Guidance was passed in 2003. It
           is possible to earn a Post-Graduate Diploma or a      The    Career   Designing    Master’s    research
           Master’s   degree   in  Career   Guidance    and      programme was developed in 2006 at VMU to
           Counselling (both 60 ECTS), or to specialize in       cover 90 ECTS. It was planned to add 30 ECTS of
           Career Guidance and Counselling within the            practice to the research programme. However
           Bachelor’s degree in Public Administration. A new     issues related to emigration, economics and
           elective module of 10 ECTS in Counselling as an       politics have stopped this development, and in
           institutional and pedagogical practice in the Master  2014 the programme was temporarily suspended.
           of Education and Science started this autumn.         The    Bachelor    level  Career    Management
                                                                 programme of 240 ECTS was closed 2 years ago.
           The 60 ECTS Master in Guidance programme              Currently only 3rd and 4th year students are
           structure is changing to offer fewer compulsory       finishing  their  studies.  There   are  ongoing
           modules and more flexibility. New modules are         discussions that may lead to re-opening the Career
           being developed in the areas of career education,     Designing Programme at Master level.
           motivation, social justice and advocacy, and others.
           Innovative   group    supervision    on    writing
                                                                 Latvia: Latvia University of Life Sciences and
           assignments and thesis work has helped students
           to start writing sooner through receiving peer        Technologies (LLU), Euroguidance Latvia
           support.
                                                                 The professional Master’s degree programme in
                                                                 Career   counselling  delivered  since   2007   is
           Estonia: team from universities, national and
           professional bodies                                   regularly up-dated in response to stakeholder
                                                                 feedback. The programme is based on the
                                                                 Professional Standard for Career counsellors
           The Estonian Lifelong Learning Strategy prioritise
                                                                 (revised in 2011), the 2013 provisions for career
           professionalisation of career guidance practitioners  guidance in the Law on Education and the
           and requirements are defined by the Estonian
                                                                 European    Competence      Standards    for  the
           Occupational    Qualification   Standard.    The      Academic Training of Career Professionals . The
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           Association of Estonian Career counsellors is the
                                                                 120 ECTS of the course lead to an EQF Level 7
           national accreditation body. However, there is not    qualification. About 60% of graduates work in the
           yet a full programme of studies in career guidance
                                                                 educational sector.
           offered  by   any   Estonian   university.  Tallinn
           University offers elective courses for professional   In the context of ESF funded national projects
           development and courses in study programmes of        reforming higher education, teacher training and
           Social work and Youth work. The University of Tartu   school curriculum, discussions with the Ministry of
           offers a cross-departmental programme and a           Education and Science are ongoing about the
           professional  programme     at  the  Institute  of    reassignment of Career Counselling from the field
           Psychology with a number of courses related to        of education to some other currently undefined
           Career guidance. Career guidance specialists          field. This has implications for occupational
           employed by the Estonian PES receive in-service       standards, research and training of counsellors
           training. The Euroguidance centre in Estonia also     affecting four universities in Latvia.
           offers seminars, study-visits and e-courses to
           develop international competences.
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