Reversing guidance cuts would be a good move

The recently published ESRI report, ‘Leaving School in Ireland: A Study of Post-School Transitions’, highlights the critical importance of the career guidance service in a student’s journey through second-level school and beyond.

This study found that students place a very high value on one-to-one sessions with their school’s career guidance counsellor and that this was seen as a key factor in their satisfaction with overall guidance provision.

Students felt that generic group guidance activities were a poor substitute for the personal interaction of one-to-one meetings and did not reflect their individual needs and aspirations.