The SELFIE tool gives vocational education and training (VET) schools the chance to see their position in the use of digital technologies for teaching and learning. While available for various education levels, for the first time this paper focuses on the use of the tool by VET schools, aiming to...
Early leavers from education and training become generally disadvantaged socially and economically in later stages in life, so it is important to understand better the motivations for early leaving and provide adequate policy solutions. This study analyses the factors that are most strongly rela...
This working paper presents the results of an assessment of the representativeness of collected information on online job advertisements (OJA) in indicating the number of vacancies on the labour market in EU Member States. Two external data sources were used, the Labour force survey (LFS) and th...
SELFIE for schools is a free online self-reflection tool which supports schools going digital. Its questionnaires ask school leaders, teachers and students about their opinions on the use of digital technologies for teaching and learning. In this paper, we examine whether digital competences of s...
Career guidance and counselling are key features of comprehensive strategies aiming to reduce early leaving from education and training. They may assist students, not only in terms of decision-making but also in managing their transitions within education and training pathways or from education ...
The 2008 financial crisis, followed by the COVID-19 pandemic, presented significant challenges – along with some opportunities – for apprenticeship systems and schemes across Europe, bringing into focus their resilience in times of crisis. These events, along with trends such as the green and di...
In the framework of its project Complementary pathways for adult refugees: the role of VET, skills and qualifications, launched on 18 January 2018 as a direct response to the arrival of high numbers of refugees and migrants in 2015 and 2016, Cedefop conducted a pilot project between 18 January 2...
Organisations centring their operations around human resources, in which skills are instrumental to the attainment of organisational goals, should create a climate to incentivise performance: the returns on any training depend on employee performance. To elicit such performance, organisations ma...
This publication brings together the results of a call for papers on monitoring and evaluating career guidance systems and services, adopting the perspective of career development support to careers and learning. Experts were invited to provide insights into the current situation, with a focus o...
In this paper, the authors explore the way(s) that information and communication technologies (ICT) might contribute to effective coordination of lifelong guidance and validation of non-formal and informal learning. Based on 12 national practices, the paper illustrates the potential for connecti...