OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training Learning for Jobs
OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training Learning for Jobs

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2010-08-10

Total Pages: 220

ISBN-13: 926408746X

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An OECD study of vocational education and training designed to help countries make their systems more responsive to labour market needs. It expands the evidence base, identifies a set of policy options and develops tools to appraise VET policy initiatives.

Ensuring the Quality of Certification in Vocational Education and Training
Ensuring the Quality of Certification in Vocational Education and Training

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Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 94

ISBN-13: 9789289621311

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Qualifications have great value as they are used by people to progress in education and training and to find employment. Qualification holders who have completed a programme and passed the required exam must inspire confidence that they have acquired the learning outcomes associated with the qualification. The role of certification in safeguarding this confidence and trust is crucial. A transparent and quality-assured certification process becomes even more important nowadays, with qualification systems increasingly allowing qualifications to be acquired through different learning pathways. This report provides interesting insights into how the certification process quality is ensured in IVET. It explores national approaches in 12 European countries and identifies eight key quality features, which guarantee that the certification processes are consistent across a VET system. This publication discusses key messages and recommendations for policy-makers, bodies involved in certification, and practitioners, and hopes to stimulate further debate, research and action in Europe.

Ensuring Quality in Work-Based Learning
Ensuring Quality in Work-Based Learning

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Publisher: Verein Auxilium

Published: 2022-09-05

Total Pages: 78

ISBN-13: 3200086696

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The handbook is published by the WBL-Q project, which is co-funded by the Erasmus+ Programme of the European Commission. It offers practical strategies to implement quality assurance measures in work-based learning processes on company and business level.

Improving Quality Assurance in European Vocational Education and Training
Improving Quality Assurance in European Vocational Education and Training

Author: Adrie J. Visscher

Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media

Published: 2009-04-29

Total Pages: 184

ISBN-13: 1402095279

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Many resources are invested in the development and introduction of Quality Assurance Systems in educational institutions all over the world. Our assumption is that, as a result of quality assurance activities, practitioners obtain information about their own functioning and institutional performance which is new and valuable to them and which therefore will form a basis for them to improve performance. This assumption proves to be naïve; too often performance feedback is under-utilized, and evaluations become void, legitimizing rites instead of a basis for organizational learning and the improvement of institutions. The aim of this book was to find out when educational institutions do transform Quality Assurance data into actions to improve performance, and how the use of such data can be promoted. This volume reports on the study of Quality Assurance structures and activities in 36 educational institutes in 6 European Countries and presents guidelines for Quality Assurance.

Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption
Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption

Author: Sungsup Ra

Publisher: Springer Nature

Published: 2021-05-22

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 9811609837

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This open access book presents contemporary perspectives on the role of a learning society from the lens of leading practitioners, experts from universities, governments, and industry leaders. The think pieces argue for a learning society as a major driver of change with far-reaching influence on learning to serve the needs of economies and societies. The book is a testimonial to the importance of ‘learning communities.’ It highlights the pivotal role that can be played by non-traditional actors such as city and urban planners, citizens, transport professionals, and technology companies. This collection seeks to contribute to the discourse on strengthening the fabric of a learning society crucial for future economic and social development, particularly in the aftermath of the coronavirus disease.

Vocational Education and Training Institutions
Vocational Education and Training Institutions

Author: Vladimir Gasskov

Publisher: International Labour Organization

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 370

ISBN-13: 9789221171041

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Effective public governance and management continue to be key to the vocational education and training (VET) sector. This Handbook and CD-ROM suggests that the VET institutions' responsiveness to market demand and their ability to operate flexibly and cost-efficiently are strongly determined by the degree of their management, financial and academic autonomy, as well as by the competence of their staff. Based on experiences in Australia, New Zealand and the United Kingdom, the Handbook is not country specific but provides general approaches to the management of VET institutions. It is accompanied by a CD-ROM that provides summaries of national management practices in the VET sector and of national policies, reports and legal documents, as well as real-life management instruments applied by VET institutions. The Handbook consists of 11 modules with 43 learning units, while the CD-ROM provides access to more than 400 documents. The Handbook and CD-ROM are intended as self-learning materials for VET managers, as resource material for management development programmes in the VET sector and as an outline for performance review of VET institutions.