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| Wirefred George Opiro |
There is now more need than
ever before to provide robust Career Guidance services to all students,
including youth out of school.
This is to enable them enrol for and select the right school subjects, courses and career fields, which can enable them to gain employability skills, meet their individual career aspirations and eventually apply the learnt skills in productive engagements after completion of their courses.
The need for Career Guidance is even increased by the factors of globalization, regional economic integration, advancement in science and technology, including the ICT revolution and free labour movements, which makes the world of work very competitive and to demand for innovations every time.
Career Guidance Handbook is an attempt by the Ministry of Education and Sports, to categorize all the available opportunities (Career Clusters and Occupational Categories) in regards to careers and corresponding training or education programmes, so as to expose students to them at an early stage. It is intended to enable all students to relate their career aspirations to their subject of studies, courses, interests, and abilities.
Sixteen Career Clusters and Occupational Categories are presented in this Handbook. These are groups of similar occupations and trades, developed to help students organize their career planning, alongside their education endeavours as pathways to those careers.
The Handbook introduces students to an exciting range of available career opportunities in Uganda and the Region and relates those careers and Occupational Categories to student's subjects of studies at their various levels of education, notably, Secondary ‘O' and 'A' Levels), Tertiary, university programmes and professional courses. It, therefore, provides a structure for students to organise their learning according to their broad interests and career goals.
An attempt has also been made in this edition, to relate those career fields within these Occupational Categories, to student's personal characteristics, personal competences and the required skills for such career engagements.
Teachers, Counsellors and parents should encourage students to select the broad careers cluster to explore through course selection at S.2, S.3 and S.5. It is also a good guide to students in selecting co-curricula activities and internship programmes as they advance with their education and training.
The benefit of career clustering and occupational categorization provide clear direction to students in various ways in this hand book: it helps students plan their future, bearing in mind their interests, talents, or desired levels of education; it provides students with focus or flexibility, directing them to specific courses and experiences, while giving them a general view of opportunities available within their scope.
It also maps out the overall manpower needs in Uganda, regionally and globally. Therefore, having this resource at school and more specifically making it available to students for reference and private reading, is to enable them secure their future careers and make meaning out of education programmes they attend.
It should be made known to students, however, that selecting an occupational category is not a permanent commitment. As they gain new experiences, they learn more about themselves and the world of work, they often also tumble over fields they could as well want to explore and so it is okay for them to change or explore other Clusters as well.
Furthermore, as a result of the dynamic labour market demands, new opportunities often come up which may be worth exploring as modern development trends keep creating new occupational possibilities. Some individuals are gifted with many talents and are able to perform in different fields. Contingency plans should always be in place for such situations.
The Career Clusters contained in this Handbook are not rigid in themselves. They are meant to give students a general picture of career and occupation structures in the world of work.
There are some occupations, courses/professions or subject areas which are cross-cutting. These provide wider latitudes for students pursuing such programmes. You will find these repeated under different categories and clusters.
Wirefred George Opiro
Commissioner, Guidance & Counselling
This is to enable them enrol for and select the right school subjects, courses and career fields, which can enable them to gain employability skills, meet their individual career aspirations and eventually apply the learnt skills in productive engagements after completion of their courses.
The need for Career Guidance is even increased by the factors of globalization, regional economic integration, advancement in science and technology, including the ICT revolution and free labour movements, which makes the world of work very competitive and to demand for innovations every time.
Career Guidance Handbook is an attempt by the Ministry of Education and Sports, to categorize all the available opportunities (Career Clusters and Occupational Categories) in regards to careers and corresponding training or education programmes, so as to expose students to them at an early stage. It is intended to enable all students to relate their career aspirations to their subject of studies, courses, interests, and abilities.
Sixteen Career Clusters and Occupational Categories are presented in this Handbook. These are groups of similar occupations and trades, developed to help students organize their career planning, alongside their education endeavours as pathways to those careers.
The Handbook introduces students to an exciting range of available career opportunities in Uganda and the Region and relates those careers and Occupational Categories to student's subjects of studies at their various levels of education, notably, Secondary ‘O' and 'A' Levels), Tertiary, university programmes and professional courses. It, therefore, provides a structure for students to organise their learning according to their broad interests and career goals.
An attempt has also been made in this edition, to relate those career fields within these Occupational Categories, to student's personal characteristics, personal competences and the required skills for such career engagements.
Teachers, Counsellors and parents should encourage students to select the broad careers cluster to explore through course selection at S.2, S.3 and S.5. It is also a good guide to students in selecting co-curricula activities and internship programmes as they advance with their education and training.
The benefit of career clustering and occupational categorization provide clear direction to students in various ways in this hand book: it helps students plan their future, bearing in mind their interests, talents, or desired levels of education; it provides students with focus or flexibility, directing them to specific courses and experiences, while giving them a general view of opportunities available within their scope.
It also maps out the overall manpower needs in Uganda, regionally and globally. Therefore, having this resource at school and more specifically making it available to students for reference and private reading, is to enable them secure their future careers and make meaning out of education programmes they attend.
It should be made known to students, however, that selecting an occupational category is not a permanent commitment. As they gain new experiences, they learn more about themselves and the world of work, they often also tumble over fields they could as well want to explore and so it is okay for them to change or explore other Clusters as well.
Furthermore, as a result of the dynamic labour market demands, new opportunities often come up which may be worth exploring as modern development trends keep creating new occupational possibilities. Some individuals are gifted with many talents and are able to perform in different fields. Contingency plans should always be in place for such situations.
The Career Clusters contained in this Handbook are not rigid in themselves. They are meant to give students a general picture of career and occupation structures in the world of work.
There are some occupations, courses/professions or subject areas which are cross-cutting. These provide wider latitudes for students pursuing such programmes. You will find these repeated under different categories and clusters.
Wirefred George Opiro
Commissioner, Guidance & Counselling
This Commissioner has done a lot for Uganda by coming up with this content which KAWA and Learn with Grandma have digitized and modernized.
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