Decisions at 18 2010 - Flexibility for careers of the future20 April 2010 - 22 April 2010

Prof Tony Watts

Presenter Organisation

NICEC

Presenter Job

Founding Fellow

Sessions & Workshops

The remodelling of careers services

Biography

Professor Tony Watts is a NICEC Founding Fellow. He was a co-founder of CRAC, and was Director of NICEC from 1975 to 2001. His work covers theory, policy and practice in all sectors of career education and guidance, including schools, further and higher education, and adult guidance. In recent years his main interests have been in evaluations of innovative practice and in policy-related studies both nationally and internationally. He has been consultant to a number of international organisations, and worked for OECD from 2001 to 2002. His recent and current work includes a review for the European Training Foundation on career guidance in the Middle East (with Professor Ronald Sultana), a survey of new arrangements for Connexions/careers services for young people in England (with Allister McGowan), and a review of Careers Services in New Zealand.