Education and Training Monitor 2023

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Vocational education and training

“The share of recent graduates from VET benefiting from exposure to work-based learning during their vocational education and training should be at least 60%, by 2025.”

Main indicator

The share of 20-34-year-olds who had a work experience of at least 1 month while studying and have graduated from mid-level VET (upper secondary or post-secondary non-tertiary) in the last three years. Annual data from the EU Labour Force Survey published by Eurostat.

Column chart showing the share of initial VET recent graduates exposed to work-based learning across EU Member States in 2022 and the EU-level 2025 target. Ten EU Member States recorded shares higher than the EU-level target and the EU average.

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A closer look

The main indicator can be broken down by sex, type of remuneration, and duration.

Context

VET enrolment – Share of students and pupils in medium level education (upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary) enrolled in vocational (as opposed to general) orientation.
Medium-level VET enrolment by sex and by field of education.
VET opportunities – Enterprises employing participants in initial vocational training (IVT) by size of enterprise , by sector and by reason.
Employment rate of recent VET graduates – Share of employed 20 to 34 years old mid-level VET graduates who have left education and training between one and three years ago.
Learning mobility in VET – Learners’ mobilities completed under Erasmus+ 2014-2020 in upper secondary and post-secondary non-tertiary education, by start year.
VET teachers – Distribution of teachers at education level and programme orientation, by age groups and by sex.

Policy response

VET for green and digital transitions – Number of EU education systems reporting activities in VET policies across different areas (teachers and trainers, equipment and infrastructure, and standards and curricula)