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Research

Here you will find copies of research reports commissioned by Careers Scotland and links to other relevant research.

Career Planning/Careers Guidance

• Labour Market Information and Guidance (PDF format - 331kb)
• Labour market information for career decision-making (PDF format - 373kb)
• Real-Time Labour Market Intelligence Scoping Project (PDF format - 208kb)
• DTZ School College Collaboration Evaluation Stage One Report (PDF format - 3MB)
• DTZ School College Collaboration Evaluation Stage Two Report (PDF format - 2MB)
• School-College Collaboration: Meeting the needs of exceptional entry winter leavers (PDF format 300KB) - conducted for Careers Scotland by the Employment Research Institute (ERI) at Edinburgh Napier University.
• Assessing Individual Need (PDF format - 2.5MB)  
• Developing a Strategic Approach to LMI Within Careers Scotland (PDF 163kb) 
• The Development of Careers Scotland's Service Delivery Framework (PDF format 357KB)
• The Careers Planning Professional (PDF format - 99kb) Chapter on Careers Scotland 
• Production Value: Futures for professionalism (PDF format - 730kb) Full report
• Review of Assessment Tools to support Guidance & Placing Activities (PDF 90kb)
• Career Goals and Educational Attainment-What is the Link? (PDF-109kb) Executive Summary
• Career Goals and Educational Attainment-What is the Link? (PDF-271kb) Full Report
• Learning about work? The role of school students' part-time employment (PDF format -92kb) Executive Summary 
• Learning about work? The role of school students' part-time employment (PDF format 220KB) Full Report
• School students part-time employment (PDF-101kb) Executive Summary
• School students part-time employment (PDF-240kb) Full Report

Equal Opportunities

• Gender Stereotyping of Career Choice (PDF format - 209 kb)

OECD Reports

• Progress and Potential (OECD) - Executive Summary (PDF format 1.4MB) - Progress and Potential: A Review benchmarked against the OECD Career Guidance Policy Review
• Progress and Potential (OECD) (PDF format 23MB) - Progress and Potential: A Review benchmarked against the OECD Career Guidance Policy Review
• Progress and Potential (OECD) National Questionnaire Response (PDF format 1.4MB) - A case study framed in accordance with the OECD Career Guidance policy review

Supporting the curriculum

• Evaluation of EEBL - Final Report by SQW (PDF format 807KB)

Transition in focus

• The experience of blind and partially sighted young people in Scotland (PDF format 700KB)

Web Links

• The National Guidance Research Forum website - aims to bring practice and research closer together. The site is for practitioners, managers, trainers, researchers and policy makers or anyone with an interest in guidance.

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