MSLETB Adult Educational Guidance Service
What does the Adult Educational Guidance Service Offer?
The AEGS helps people to make informed education, career and life choices by providing impartial and confidential Guidance Counselling, Information and Support to adults in relation to their education, training and career options.
You can meet with a professional Adult Educational Guidance Counsellor or Adult Guidance Information Officer in a confidential setting to discuss your education and training needs.
Episode five of MSLETB GET Lit! This episode features interviews with Fergus Craddock (ETBI) and Dr. Aisling McElearney, who introduce and discuss the new Wider Benefits of Learning tool, highlighting how learning reaches far beyond qualifications to influence wellbeing, confidence, and community connection.
Wider Benefits of Learning Project: Introduction
From our work in FET, we see first-hand the value of our programmes to learners/clients’ personal and social development in ways not always captured in certification and progression. We welcome the opportunity to capture these wider benefits of learning outcomes using an evidence-based tool. To date, only quantitative data on completion and certification outcomes has been captured and reported. By working collaboratively and pooling expertise across programmes and ETBs, we have developed a tool to measure the wider benefits of learning, addressing an identified gap in measuring qualitative outcomes and providing a fuller, more holistic picture of learners/clients’ journey in FET.
1. Show how learning changes learners’ lives and how they feel. It will make sure that this is valued as well as a learner achieving a certificate.
2. Help learners think about their own journey and record the positive changes they see in themselves.
By using the tool, educators/guidance counsellors and managers will have access to data that provides insight and knowledge about how our FET programmes are impacting the personal and social development of learners/clients. This in turn provides valuable insight and information into how FET can meet the new and emerging needs of learners/clients, information which can be used to shape FET provision, keeping it relevant and responsive into the
The Guidance Counsellor will help you to:
• Identify your unique strengths, experiences and potential.
• Support you to make decision about your future.
• Take a step by step approach to achieve your goals.
• Reach your full potential in life.
The Information Officer can:
• Provide you with impartial information that suits your needs.
• Research your education and training options.
• Friendly and supportive
• Help to clarify and simplify funding supports, entry requirements and qualification levels.
“Guidance facilitates people throughout their lives to manage their own educational, training, occupational, personal, social and life choices so that they reach their full potential and contribute to the development of a better society”.
National Guidance Forum 2007
Who is the Service for?
The service is for adults who:
Are uncertain about their future?
Are considering returning to or continuing with education.
Are having difficulty in finding or keeping suitable employment due to a lack of appropriate education qualifications.
Wish to explore new forms of further education and training.
Contact Us or drop in to explore your options.
Our Service is:
• Free of charge
• Impartial
• Friendly and supportive
• Dedicated to enabling people to
realise their full potential in life
The will to win, the desire to succeed, the urge to reach your full potential... these are the keys that will unlock the door to personal excellence.
Confucius
