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Working Relationships between Careers Services Within and Outside Higher Education

The relationships between Careers Service Organisations and Higher Education Careers Advisory Services have in recent years been made more volatile by competitive pressures induced through quasi-market reforms. Within a lifelong learning agenda, however, there have been moves towards closer working between the two sets of services. The extent of current links is reviewed, and their nature is analysed in relation to students pre-entry, on-course and post-exit, in relation to adult guidance, and in relation to activities which cross-cut these areas of work - labour-market information, quality standards, and staff development. The scope for further development of these links is discussed.