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Careers education and guidance
Careers education and guidance

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Acknowledgements

The Open University worked in collaboration with the Specialist School and Academies Trust to prepare this course for its original publication on TeachandLearn.net.

This course was written by Sylvia Thomson

Except for third party materials and otherwise stated (see terms and conditions [Tip: hold Ctrl and click a link to open it in a new tab. (Hide tip)] ), this content is made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 Licence

Course image: Public Information Office in Flickr made available under Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Licence.

Grateful acknowledgement is made to the following sources for permission to reproduce material in this unit:

DfES, (2004) ‘Careers Overview’, Careers Education and Guidance in a Nutshell, and Example of a Careers education and guidance policy document. Crown copyright material is reproduced under Class Licence Number C01W0000065 with the permission of the Controller if HMSO and the Queen’s Printer for Scotland.

Every effort has been made to contact copyright owners. If any have been inadvertently overlooked the publishers will be pleased to make the necessary arrangements at the first opportunity.

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