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Letter from the Director A critical look at mobility AGORA XII - Training for mentally disabled people and their trainers The editor in chief of Cedefop Info has decided to return to his studies

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  EUROPE

Court of Justice guarantees same conditions as nationals D/Europe - The European Year of Languages in 185 shades and colours Meetings Industry in search of Europe-wide vocational standards for vocational qualifications

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  Bi- and multilateral relations

B/FIN/I - Mainstreaming gender equality B/PL - First Flanders-Poland Plato project launched with 200 Polish SMEs D/Europe - Dual training courses in an international comparison F/UK - Triple recognition for higher-level commercial course NL - Monitoring international mobility in education - towards a European framework

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  Mobility

D - A potential international market for continuing vocational training NL - Education without frontiers - more flexibility in financing student mobility S - Better quality in work placement abroad - and more money?

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  Educational policy

NL - Evaluation of the Act on Vocational and Adult Education UK - Organisational reshuffle reflects policy priorities

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  Initial vocational training policy

B - Young people share their Web experience in the context of a European project B - The engineering world opens its doors A - Introduction of the vocational baccalaureate P - Diversification of initial training for young people FIN - Development of on-the-job learning and apprenticeship training

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  Continuing training policy

DK - New strategy for labour market training UK - Learning with the unions

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  Employment policy

B - CO.BR.A.: a skills-based classification system B - FOREM has been the Wallonian public employment service since its inception in 1989 (Correction) DK/S - A new digital strategy for the public employment service F - French plan to combat exclusion IRL - Skills shortages require broadly based responses

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  Lifelong learning

Community wide consultation on lifelong learning Innovations in lifelong learning: perfect and imperfect practice F - Lifelong learning: the French position NL - A Life Long of Learning: elements for a policy agenda

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  New training organisations and programmes

D - Regional training networks gain momentum E - Vocational training in new information and communication technologies IRL - Establishment of new partnership centre A - 'eFit' for future careers A - Business management joins the curriculum NO - Free digital learning resources in upper secondary schools

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  Certification systems - Quality of VET

D - Continuing vocational training market checklist F - The issues of joint industrial and inter-occupational skills accreditation IRL - New qualifications body starts to operate I - Accreditation of training structures and the quality of training S - Independent schools in the top ten

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  Financing of training

D - Amendment to the Meister-BaföG an essential component of the skilling offensive

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  Training of trainers

B/NL - A Flemish première: the K.U.Leuven Mile project - 'Learning to teach by video' B - Company placements for teachers of technical and vocational secondary education: a project with a positive impact

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  Special target groups

D - Skilling offensive is also relevant for older members of the workforce E - The 'active integration income' programme: individual guidance for jobseekers with labour market integration difficulties P - Conditions of access to post-secondary specialisation courses in technology (PRODEP III)

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  Vocational guidance

F - Training and observation centre for the accreditation of prior or non-formal learning

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