.............. darn great idea, i'm all for it for all sorts of reasons

But my only concern would be those students that don't thrive or are suited in an educational enviroment playing havoc in school because they want ' out' sooner whilst those who want/enjoy being there suffer to a certain degree !!
But that's the entire point. Why keep kids at school when they don't want to be there -it's a waste of everyones time.

I'm not sure what is being down in relation to Career Guidance atm, but I'm of the opinion it's pretty bloody useless. My daughter did it recently and it was a joke.
There is not much point giving a student a list of "things they like to do", getting them to tick a box and spitting out the result (cos mine would have been lying on the beach back then) based on that. OR like DD - given a book containing all the courses and told to pick a few

Proper personality/aptitude testing would go a long long way. My father approached a few schools when he was first looking at retirement and none of them were interested. I can't tell you how many people we saw over the years that would rather be doing the exact opposite of the jobs they were doing at the time, and all the time wasting as a result.