Career Guidance, Counselling and Education is an accredited professionally oriented bachelor study programme which is aimed at training for qualification of career counsellor. It belongs to the field of education „non-teaching education“. The study provides graduates with professional education, qualification readiness and a degree of professional adaptability to the conditions and requirements of counselling practice.
Scope and format
Three-year study programme (6 semesters), delivered in the form of full-time/part-time study through full-time teaching/consultations. It includes a compulsory 12-week internship.
Validity of accreditation
Until 22 April 2025
Guaranteeing department
The guaranteeing institution is the Institute of Education and Communication of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague.
Expert guarantor
The expert guarantor is Mgr. Lenka Hloušková, Ph.D., who is responsible for the professional level, the content of the programme and the quality of teaching.
Study conditions
The study is intended for graduates of secondary schools who have successfully passed the leaving examination.
Tuition fee
There is no tuition fee for the study. It is only charged in cases where the standard study period is exceeded by a student. A student whose total period of study exceeds the standard period of study of the programme by more than one year is liable to pay the fee (the period of previous unsuccessful studies in bachelor's and master's degree programmes is also counted).
Admission procedure
The basic condition for admission to study is successful completion of the leaving examination at secondary school or apprentice school.
In addition, the admission/non-admission of an applicant is determined by the applicant's ranking in the admissions examination in relation to the maximum capacity of students for study. The specific conditions for admission to study are laid down in the Director's Regulation, which sets out the conditions for admission to the IEC for the concrete academic year.
Organisation of studies
The study is conceived as a three-year study both in full-time form (teaching takes place during the week-days according to the timetable) and in part-time form (teaching takes place on Fridays and Saturdays in the form of consultation lessons). The study takes place according to the timetable for the respective academic year, in accordance with the Study and Examination Regulations of the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague for studies in Bachelor's and Master's degree programmes. Students are obliged to complete 12-week internship (= 3 weeks in the summer semester of the 1st year, 3 weeks in the winter semester and 3 weeks in the summer semester of the 2nd year; and 3 weeks in the winter semester of the 3rd year).
The start of the course is published in the IEC study schedule on the IEC website. Students take the prescribed credits and examinations on the dates announced in the system, but no later than the date set by the Rector for the relevant academic year. The study is concluded with a state final examination, including the defence of the bachelor's thesis.
Conditions for graduation
The conditions of graduation are:
- successful completion of the courses prescribed in the curriculum, including a 12-week internship,
- completed, submitted and successfully defended a bachelor thesis,
- successfully passed the state final examinations in 3 components:
(1) Career Counselling,
(2) Psychology,
(3) Pedagogy and Adult Education.
The graduate will receive a Bachelor's diploma and the academic degree of Bachelor, abbreviated as BSc.
Graduate profile and competences
The graduate will acquire the knowledge, skills and competences for the profession of career counsellor. It means that graduate:
- will be able to use various forms and methods of work with clients, various diagnostic tools, including online tools and knowledge of the labour market.
- will be communication proficient, able to conduct counselling interviews with different types of clients, including recording counselling sessions.
- will be able to identify clients' strengths and weaknesses, their labour market opportunities, and will be able to develop an individual career action plan for the client.
- will be able to work with diagnostic tools in counselling, evaluate them and communicate the results to the client. He/she will be able to evaluate the counselling process.
- will be able to work with information sources on the labour market, human potential development, theories and approaches in counselling and psychology.
- will be familiar with current trends and changes in the labour market and use this information in work with clients.
- will be able to prepare, implement and evaluate a training programme in the field of career counselling for counsellors and different types of clients according to specified requirements (e.g. cooperation with schools in project days focused on career choice; development activities for university students in the field of career management; cooperation with companies;...).