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Strengthening Career Guidance Practitioners’

Competences in Malta

Strengthening the skills and competences of the career guidance practitioners working in the
education sector in Malta is a major task of the National School Support Services (NSSS), Ministry
for Education and Employment. NSSS organises regular training for 200 guidance practitioners
working in our state schools and colleges, namely guidance teachers (who teach a subject but also
have guidance duties), career advisors and career guidance teachers who work full time on career
guidance. Training revolves around initiatives which inform practitioners about labour market
opportunities, employability skills and training routes. During 2018-19 practitioners were exposed to
training in the following sectors: Aviation, ICT, Manufacturing, Financial Services, Heritage, Life
Sciences and Tourism amongst others.

and Development, which is modular and structured in
such a way that students can finish with a Postgraduate
Certificate after a year, a Postgraduate Diploma after two
years, and a Masters after a third year of study, dedicated
to research.

Euroguidance conference: My Journey – Opening New
Horizons for Students – 3rd December 2018.
Copyright: Euroguidance MT

An important part of this training is practitioners’
exposure to workplaces. Each sector offers
practitioners a number of hours of experience
in the workplace so they are better informed
about labour market requirements and
therefore better equipped to guide students.
NSSS, through Euroguidance funds and in
collaboration with the Malta Career Guidance
Association (MCGA-Malta’s main association
representing guidance practitioners), also
organises initiatives such as conferences and Euroguidance conference: My Journey – Opening New
Horizons for Students – 3rd December 2018
seminars to strengthen practitioners’ Copyright: Euroguidance MT
competences. Topics during 2018-19 included
themes; ‘My Journey’ – new educational References:
pathways for Malta, peer learning activities for
Institute for Education
practitioners to share effective ways of working https://instituteforeducation.gov.mt/en/Documents/Prospectus/INSTITUTE%
and discussions around professionalising
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career guidance in Malta.
University of Malta
Practitioners in Malta also have other
https://www.um.edu.mt/courses/overview/PMLCGPET6-2019-0-O
opportunities for training which includes an
Award in an understanding of Career Guidance
and Development by the Institute for Education Dorianne Gravina, Education Officer (Career Guidance)
and the Master in Lifelong Career Guidance Euroguidance Malta Representative