Lifelong Guidance for All? Zum Eckpunktepapier des Nationalen Forums Beratung

In February 2009, a national association of guidance practitioners and scientific experts, known as the German National Guidance Forum for Education, Career and Employment (nfb), presented a widely recognized key issues paper. The following report comments on the paper from the perspective of continuing education research with a special focus on the following issue: Will the structural improvement of continuing educational counselling lead to an increase of participation in adult education? Due to the rather meek data situation, only temporary assumptions are possible. However, the data suggest that the present confusion in continuing education presents no pivotal barrier for participation and not all groups are equally affected by transparency problems which can effectively be reduced through counselling.