The overall aim of this research is to contribute insight that will guide and support decisions about the direction, focus, and resourcing of careers education in New Zealand schools.

The project involves questionnaires for principals and for all careers staff (careers advisors, STAR co-ordinators, Gateway co-ordinators, and transition teachers) in secondary and composite schools (including kura kaupapa Maori), excluding the 100 schools participating in the "Creating Pathways and Building Lives” (CPaBL) initiative.

The research provides baseline information about how schools organise careers education, what careers staff think about their role and the purposes behind what they do, and the range of activities in which they engage students. 

It also forms one part of the “Education Employment Linkages” (EEL) collaboration between NZCER, Lincoln University, and Victoria University of Wellington, on formal education-employment support systems for young New Zealanders.

The final report, Careers Education in New Zealand Schools, was published in October 2007.

Funded by the Ministry of Education.