Legislation Relevant to Career and Transition Education

• N.A.G.1(vi)
  Provide appropriate career information and guidance for all students, with a particular emphasis on specific guidance for students who, nearing the end of their schooling, are at risk of becoming unemployed.

• N.E.P.7
  Schools will provide careers education and guidance in Year 7 and above. Special emphasis will be placed on career guidance for at risk students who are unprepared for the transition to the workplace or further study

• National Educational Priorities (N.E.P.s)

  • Success for All
  • A safe learning environment
  • Improving literacy and Numeracy
  • Better use of student achievement information
  • Improving outcomes for students at risk
  • Improving Maori outcomes
  • Providing career guidance
  • Reporting

• Education Act 1989: Section 7.1 Courses and Visits

  1. Except as provided in this section, a Board may authorise any students to-
     
     1. Undertake courses of education; or
     2. Obtain work experience; or
     3. Make visits;-
     outside the school premises; and where the board has done so, a student shall be deemed to be attending the school while undertaking the course, obtaining the experience, or making the visit.
  2. Except in accordance with conditions for the time being prescribed by the Minister in that behalf by notice in the Gazette, no principal, teacher, or occupier of a workplace shall allow a student to go into, or remain in, a workplace to get work experience.
  3. Subject to subsection (4) of this section, a student who is in a workplace (other than an undertaking within the meaning of the Factories and Commercial Premises Act 1981) to get work experience is deemed to be employed there; and every enactment, [and collective agreement],  (to the extent that it relates to the safety, health, and welfare of workers) applies to the student and the occupier of the workplace  accordingly.
  4. Subsection (3) of this section does not-
     
     1. Entitle a student to be paid; or
     2. Require a student to join or belong to a union; or
     3. Entitle a student to enter or remain in a workplace; or
     4. Require any-person to pay any levy, fee, or charge, of any kind

Analysing the National Administration Guideline 1(vi)

Provide appropriate career information and guidance for all students , with a particular emphasis on specific guidance for students who, nearing the end of their schooling, are at risk of becoming unemployed.

What is 'appropriate'?  

• Based on accurate and up-to-date information about carers and training options.
• Based on knowledge of current and future employment trends.
• Based on students' knowledge of themselves, their needs and aspirations.
• Reflecting diversity of cultures and learning styles.

Who are 'all students'?

• This means that everyone in the school needs to have access to a minimum level of information and guidance, whether individually or in groups, whether as part of the curriculum or as part of an interview programme.

What does 'specific (career) guidance' mean?

• Career guidance tailored to the needs of the target group.
• Advice and support to help students complete equally for training places and jobs.
• Special programmes and events which help students make the transition from school to work in a positive way.
• Interventions that help students decide what to do and then put their plans into action.

What does 'at risk' involve?

• It involves knowing which individuals and groups in the school are going to have difficulty in competing equally for training places and jobs.
• It involves predicting which students are nearing the end of their schooling.
• It involves knowing which groups are statistically over-represented in employmentf figures and tracing this back to the school population.
• It involves working with those students who appear to be the least motivated to take part in learning and who do not respond well to school codes of practice.