(a) The limited attention attached to career guidance, and particularly to contacts with the labour market, within the general education part of the education system.
(b) More generally, the fragmented nature of the guidance system as a whole: arguably, it is not currently a system at all, in any meaningful sense, but a series of disconnected entities.
(c) The lack of accountability, monitoring and quality assurance: this is particularly evident in relation to schools, but is an issue in all sectors.
(d) The lack of clarity regarding the role of government within a decentralised and marketised system.