Assessing VET’s benefits
Understanding the contribution of VET to individuals’ career, employability and social inclusion as well as its impact on economic growth and productivity is important for assessing investment in VET compared to other types of education or learning. Demonstrating economic and social returns to training may also inform and guide enterprise and individual investment in training. [more]
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- Opinion of EESC on Youth employment, technical skills and mobility (22/03/2012)
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- Cedefop reviews the fruits of European policy cooperation in vocational education and training (19/03/2009)
- On Monday 16 March, Jan Figel’, European Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Youth, announced the publication of Cedefop’s latest Policy Report, Continuity, consolidation and change at the Agora conference of the same title, held in Thessaloniki under the auspices of the Czech Presidency of the EU.
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- Coming soon: Policy Report 2009 reviews progress across Europe (03/03/2009)
- Participants at the upcoming Agora conference, Continuity, consolidation and change: Towards a European era of vocational education and training, (Thessaloniki, 16-17 March 2009), will discuss the results of Cedefop’s Policy Report of the same title that will be disseminated during the conference.
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- Cedefop 2008 and 2009 (29/01/2009)
- Strengthening European cooperation in vocational education
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- Director Aviana Bulgarelli announces main outcomes of policy reporting at ministerial meeting in Bordeaux (26/11/2008)
- At the informal meeting of the Ministers in charge of Vocational Education and Training and Ministers in charge of Higher Education, held in Bordeaux on 26 November, Cedefop Director Aviana Bulgarelli announced the main results and messages from the policy reporting exercise Cedefop carried out in 2008, as part of its contribution to the Copenhagen process.
- New publication: Zooming in on 2010 (09/08/2007)
- The joint efforts of Member States, social partners and the European Commission to modernise vocational education and training for a more cohesive and competitive Europe have started to pay off: training has become firmly entrenched in the Lisbon Strategy. But more needs to be done. Vocational education must be seen as both an investment in the future of young people, and a source of learning opportunities for adults.
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- Conference conclusions - Building a European VET Area (Cedefop, 26/27 April) (21/05/2007)
- The Agora conference - organised jointly by Cedefop and the German Presidency as a follow-up to the Helsinki Communiqu? - assessed the progress made in implementing the Copenhagen - Maastricht priorities and considered further action for vocational education and training (VET). Jan Figel’s call for staying ‘open-minded and open-hearted’ emphasised the importance of all stakeholders, policy-makers, researchers, social partners and practitioners to cooperate in tackling the VET challenges.
- Four years on Stay focused (13/12/2006)
- The priorities to modernise VET remain valid - we must stay focused and reinforce efforts to consolidate and build on achievements so far.
