Preamble
The General Conference of the International Labour Organisation,
Having been convened at Geneva by the Governing Body of the International Labour Office, and having met in its Sixtieth Session on 4 June 1975, and
Considering the importance of vocational guidance and vocational training in the implementation of employment policies and programmes, and
Noting the terms of existing international labour Conventions and Recommendations of direct relevance to employment policy and, in particular, of the Discrimination (Employment and Occupation) Convention and Recommendation, 1958, and of the Employment Policy Convention and Recommendation, 1964, and
Noting that the General Conference of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation at its Eighteenth Session in 1974 adopted a Recommendation on Technical and Vocational Education, and
Noting that the International Labour Organisation and the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation have collaborated closely with a view to ensuring that the instruments of the two Organisations pursue harmonised objectives and avoid duplication and conflict, and that they will continue to collaborate closely with a view to the effective implementation of these instruments, and
Having decided upon the adoption of certain proposals with regard to human resources development: vocational guidance and vocational training, which is the sixth item on the agenda of the session, and
Having determined that these proposals shall take the form of a Recommendation,
adopts this twenty-third day of June of the year one thousand nine hundred and seventy-five, the following Recommendation, which may be cited as the Human Resources Development Recommendation, 1975: