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Author: Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training Publisher: ISBN: 9789289613026 Category : Languages : en Pages : 4
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The European credit system for vocational education and training (ECVET) is one of the European instruments designed to make VET systems more transparent. It aims to make it easier for vocational students to move between learning institutions, whether in the same country or abroad. ECVET, which concerns qualifications at all levels of the European qualifications framework (EQF): (1) allows transfer of units of learning outcomes; (2) operates through partnerships between institutions; and (3) eliminates the need for a second assessment of students moving between these institutions. Countries have developed ECVET following a recommendation of the European Parliament and Council in accordance with their policy priorities and development of their qualifications systems. Cedefop analyses developments and publishes an annual monitoring report, which includes a country-by-country analysis. This Briefing Note discusses testing of the ECVET system in transnational pilot projects, European Union funding, perception of the value of ECVET in different countries, moving between general and vocational education, and compatibility challenges. Finally, policy implications are described.
Author: Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training Publisher: ISBN: 9789289613026 Category : Languages : en Pages : 4
Book Description
The European credit system for vocational education and training (ECVET) is one of the European instruments designed to make VET systems more transparent. It aims to make it easier for vocational students to move between learning institutions, whether in the same country or abroad. ECVET, which concerns qualifications at all levels of the European qualifications framework (EQF): (1) allows transfer of units of learning outcomes; (2) operates through partnerships between institutions; and (3) eliminates the need for a second assessment of students moving between these institutions. Countries have developed ECVET following a recommendation of the European Parliament and Council in accordance with their policy priorities and development of their qualifications systems. Cedefop analyses developments and publishes an annual monitoring report, which includes a country-by-country analysis. This Briefing Note discusses testing of the ECVET system in transnational pilot projects, European Union funding, perception of the value of ECVET in different countries, moving between general and vocational education, and compatibility challenges. Finally, policy implications are described.
Author: Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training Publisher: ISBN: 9789289613040 Category : Languages : en Pages : 4
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The European credit system for vocational education and training (ECVET) is one of the European instruments designed to make VET systems more transparent. It aims to make it easier for vocational students to move between learning institutions, whether in the same country or abroad. ECVET, which concerns qualifications at all levels of the European qualifications framework (EQF): allows transfer of units of learning outcomes; operates through partnerships between institutions; and eliminates the need for a second assessment of students moving between these institutions.
Author: Publisher: ISBN: 9789276384144 Category : Languages : en Pages :
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This note seeks to look back at the development and implementation process of the European Credit System for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET). It takes take stock of its main achievements and how they are taken forward in the 2020 Council Recommendation on vocational education and training (VET) for sustainable competitiveness, social fairness and resilence and pave the way for future EU initiatives. The key objective of ECVET, as intended in the 2009 ECVET Recommendation, was to facilitate the transfer, recognition and accumulation of assessed learning outcomes of individuals who are aiming to achieve a qualification. ECVET could therefore: - help transfer and recognise learning that has taken place during a stay abroad (geographical mobility); and - support lifelong learning, by allowing people to transfer and accumulate learning outcomes achieved in different contexts within their country to build up recognised qualifications, update or upgrade them. ECVET was designed as a European credit transfer system that should be flexible enough to accommodate the characteristic features of European VET systems. In order to achieve this, ECVET was based on common principles concerning the design fo qualifications and arrangements for credit transfer and accumulation. One of these key principles is the structuring of qualifications into units of learning outcomes. As an initiative, ECVET was closely linked to a number of other instruments and initiatives aimed at increasing transparency, supporting mutual trust and recognition in the area of education and training. The implementation of the ECVET Recommendation between 2009 and 2020 was supported by a number of mechanisms and activities at European and national levels, to ensure quality and overall coherence in this process. In addition to the ECVET support structure set up at European level, this was accompanied by funding provided to implement centralised and decentralised ECVET projects, as well as funding provided to set up National teams of ECVET experts. In its eleven years of implementation between 2009 and 2020, the ECVET principles were used to support quality assurance in VET qualifications design as well as in the development and delivery of mobility schemes in many countries. However, while the implementation of ECVET can be considered a success in several respects, these eleven years have not been a journey without its challenges. A 2019 study on EU VET instruments ECVET and European Quality Assurance Reference Framework (EQAVET) found that ECVET made a significant contribution to the implementation of a learning outcomes approach and to a higher level of quality of mobility experiences (better understanding of competences gained, sharing experiences about methods, management competences). In some countries, ECVET contributed to reforms of national VET systems. However, ECVET had limited success with the use of credit points to transfer assessed learning outcomes . The 2020 VET Council Recommendation repealed formally the ECVET and EQAVET Recommendations. While this means the end of ECVET as an initiative and its related implementation mechanisms, the main objectives and principles of ECVET have been enshrined in the VET Council Recommendation and will continue to be a priority in European VET policy. Members of the ECVET Users' Group, as well as coordinators of the national teams of ECVET experts, met for the last time on 27 January 2021 for an EU meeting on the achievements of ECVET and the way forward.
Author: Matthias Pilz Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 3531187570 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 586
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Across the globe, vocational education and training is characterised by a number of over-arching trends, including the increasing use of technology, the growing importance of information and communications systems, and changes to national demographics. At the interface between the education and training system and the world of work, VET faces the challenge of tackling these changes, of making a constructive contribution to solving the problems posed by the transition from education to employment, and of ensuring that the next generation has the skills it – and the economy – needs. This volume comprises thirty individual contributions that together add up to a comprehensive overview of the current situation in vocational education and training, its strengths and weaknesses, and its prospects. VET experts from Canada, the USA, India, China, Japan and Korea, as well as from a number of European countries, focus on their national context and how it fits in to the bigger picture. The contributions combine theoretical discussions from various strands of VET research with evidence from country case studies and examples from current practice.
Author: Jonathan Winterton Publisher: ISBN: Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 144
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The third in a series of Cedefop publications dealing with technical aspects of the European Qualification Framework and European Credit Transfer System, this book analyses current practice in countries that have made progress with evaluating and defining competence. It proposes a typology of knowledge, skills and competence, to be used not as an instrument of 'harmonisation' between countries, but as a template to enable comparison. The aim is to promote mobility in every sense, bringing work-based learning and knowledge acquired in higher education closer together.
Author: Publisher: BRILL ISBN: 9004394273 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 116
Book Description
The Introduction to the Finnish Educational System explores different aspects of learning and teaching in Finland and will give tools and ideas for teachers, student teachers and educators worldwide.
Author: OECD Publisher: OECD Publishing ISBN: 9264117059 Category : Languages : en Pages : 500
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The 2011 edition of Education at a Glance enables countries to see themselves in the light of other countries’ performance. It provides a broad array of comparable indicators on education systems and represents the consensus of professional thinking on how to measure education internationally.
Author: Matthias Pilz Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319478567 Category : Education Languages : en Pages : 494
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This book brings together a broad range of approaches and methodologies relevant to international comparative vocational education and training (VET). Revealing how youth in transition is affected by economic crises, it provides essential insights into the strengths and weaknesses of the various systems and prospects of VET in contexts ranging from North America to Europe, (e.g. Spain, Germany or the UK) to Asia (such as China, Thailand and India). Though each country examined in this volume is affected by the economic crisis in a different way, the effects are especially apparent for the young generation. In many countries the youth unemployment rate is still very high and the job perspectives for young people are often limited at best. The contributions in this volume demonstrate that VET alone cannot solve these problems, but can be used to support a smooth transition from school to work. If the quality of VET is high and the status and job expectations are good, VET can help to fill the skills gap, especially at the intermediate skill level. Furthermore, VET can also offer a realistic alternative to the university track for young people in many countries.
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