Since 2008, the question uppermost in policy-makers’ minds has understandably been the explosive growth of youth unemployment. But the crisis has also severely affected low-qualified adults, who face the highest rate of unemployment across Europe. A recent Cedefop study confirms that work-based ...
In a landscape of unprecedented global competition, fast-changing technology, global regulatory standards, increasingly mobile populations, and the constant generation of new jobs and skills sets, the entry of new elements into VET – new forms of VET provision and qualification – comes as no sur...
As European countries are gradually resuming business exiting the most stringent measures taken during the Covid-19 pandemic, many are warning that some effects of the crisis will be sustained. In some countries, concerns have been raised about the slump in numbers of apprenticeship places, part...
Committed and competent teachers and trainers are crucial to ensuring the quality and labour market relevance of learning, both in VET schools/ centres and in companies, and whether in classrooms, in workshops, in labs and simulated learning environments, or at the workplace. Teachers and traine...
Low qualifications, disengagement from education and training, and long-term unemployment are interconnected phenomena and tend to cumulate throughout a person’s life. Missed chances in early childhood, school age and young adulthood may draw disadvantaged people into a cycle of social marginali...