A new guidance era for vocational education and training?

Although career guidance may play an extremely important and diverse role for vocational education and training and indeed does so in some cases, the relationship between guidance and VET is sometimes problematic. This article investigates this relationship in detail from an international perspective. Developments that have occurred in both areas are used as a basis for highlighting the areas of potential guidance offers for lifelong learning. This takes place via three interfaces, for which examples of implementation from various countries are outlined. The article concludes with reflecting upon which driving factors are behind these developments and upon which implications need to be borne in mind for the structuring of the newly discovered convergence of guidance and vocational education and training.