Vocational Guidance in France — and Great Britain

The importance of vocational guidance, and its problems, are not discussed very much, and the general attitude towards it is one of complacency. The Crowther Report, for instance, which purports to deal with the destinies of 15 to 18 year olds, dedicates only half a dozen scattered and rather woolly paragraphs to this question. Yet “the conditions of modern life, fluctuations in economic life, evolution of techniques, complexity and diversity of vocational training, severity of competition in all sectors of human activity, present families more and more with problems of guidance which it is impossible for them to solve by themselves.”