The OCED report reviewed Ireland's existing National Skills Strategy to 2025 and how it may need to be adapted, identifying priorities and recommendations specifically for the Irish context. The report itself was not intended as an implementation plan, and further work was required by Irish stakeholders to progress the recommendations in the OECD report.
The National Skills Council (NSC) was established following the recommendations of the OECD Skills Review for Ireland, with the objective of...
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A review was conducted in partnership with the OECD. The review concentrated on four areas:
balance in skills;
lifelong learning;
innovation;
governance.
The report identified four priorities:
Priority 1: Securing a balance in skills through a responsive and diversified supply of skills.
Priority 2: Fostering greater participation in lifelong learning in and outside the workplace.
Priority 3: Leveraging skills to drive innovation and strengthen firm performance.
Priority 4: Strengthening skills...
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Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS)
To adopt a learner-centred ethos and to tailor both learning and supports to meet the needs of learners, with consistent, integrated, and appropriate supports offered to all learners, in all FET settings. Thus, wherever possible the necessary supports should be available independently of the specific FET programme on which the learner is enrolled and engaged. This process can be aided by appropriate IT systems and, in line with the digital transformation and upgrading of infrastructure that...
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The position paper of this policy is underpinned by a Universal Design (UD) approach and aligns with the Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty.
The Framework to implement the policy outlines the enhancement of the overall learner experience within FET by:
develop & standardise supports and apply good practices;
integrate supports via Universal Design (UD);
technology to address support needs;
more consistent & reflective financial supports;
cross-FET Programme Independent Learner...
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Further Education and Training Authority (SOLAS)
Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI)
Cavan Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB)
City of Dublin Education and Training Board (CDETB)
Cork Education and Training Board (CETB)
Donegal Education and Training Board (DETB)
Dublin Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board (DDLETB)
Kerry Education and Training Board (KETB)
Kilkenny Carlow Education and Training Board (KCETB)
Kildare Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB)
Laois Offaly Education and Training Board (LOETB)
Longford Westmeath Education and Training Board (LWETB)
Louth Meath Education and Training Board (LMETB)
Galway Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB)
Mayo Sligo and Leitrim Education and Training Board (MSLETB)
Tipperary Education and Training Board (TETB)
Waterford Wexford Education and Training Board (WWETB)
This is the first national Further Education & Training (FET) Strategy for the Green Transition and aims to shape the response and contribution of the sector towards meeting Ireland's climate action targets to halve Ireland's greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.
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The strategy was developed by SOLAS, in partnership with consultants KPMG and in consultation with Ireland's sixteen (16) Education and Training Boards (ETBs), public bodies, government departments and key industry stakeholders. The strategy examines crucial sectors including construction, agriculture, transport, energy, hospitality, and finance, identifies critical skills gaps, and presents strategic and sector specific recommendations. The strategy also outlines ways in which FET can equip...
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Further Education and Training Authority (SOLAS)
Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS)
Community education takes a holistic, learner-centred approach and incorporates both formal and informal learning, addressing learners' personal development and building skills while offering educational opportunities through simplified pathways and the possibility of moving forward into the FET system and beyond. Community education fosters social cohesion and active citizenship, playing an important role in supporting a democratic society.
The Framework gives a foundation to help shape how...
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Developing the framework was a collective and collaborative process by the whole of the FET sector, focussing on the needs of learners, who were also a key stakeholder and consulted during the process of drafting the framework.
A writing group was set up that included many different stakeholders in the FET Sector. This group was an important space to discuss ideas and challenges and was imperative for shaping the final content.
There was a 12-month development process, comprising four...
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Further Education and Training Authority (SOLAS)
Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS)
Department of Rural and Community Development
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Cavan Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB)
City of Dublin Education and Training Board (CDETB)
Cork Education and Training Board (CETB)
Donegal Education and Training Board (DETB)
Dublin Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board (DDLETB)
Kerry Education and Training Board (KETB)
Kildare Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB)
Kilkenny Carlow Education and Training Board (KCETB)
Laois Offaly Education and Training Board (LOETB)
Longford Westmeath Education and Training Board (LWETB)
Louth Meath Education and Training Board (LMETB)
Mayo Sligo and Leitrim Education and Training Board (MSLETB)
Tipperary Education and Training Board (TETB)
Waterford Wexford Education and Training Board (WWETB)
Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI)
Adult Learning Association (AONTAS)
Community Education Facilitators' Association (CEFA)
To highlight the opportunities for Vocational Education and Training organisations to enhance Transversal Skills through participation in Erasmus+ funded mobility projects and examine the value of Erasmus+ mobility opportunity as a mechanism for the acquisition of Transversal Skills for VET learners and staff.
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The above report was carried out under the direction of the National VET Team. VET Team is a national panel of key experts from across the Further Education and Training sector that advises Léargas on VET practice, policy, recognition and accreditation of skills. The purpose of the VET Team is to promote and support the implementation of EU VET tools in projects funded by Erasmus+.
The report explored the concept of transversal skills to establish consensus in terms of definition and identify...
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In 2023, the Innovation and Collaboration fund opened for applications to progress the ALL Strategy.
As part of the application, projects had to evidence: collaboration and partnership between organisations; innovative approaches; meaningful benefits for adults with unmet literacy, numeracy and digital literacy needs; and good value for money and no duplication of work already happening.
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The 2023 Innovation and Collaboration Fund was EUR 1 million, with the maximum grant of EUR 50 000.
Organisations that work in the public, not-for-profit, community and voluntary sector were eligible to apply. A minimum of two organisations working together in partnership were required to make an application, with one organisation as the lead applicant, and the other organisation(s) as the partner(s).
The target groups for the ALL Innovation and Collaboration Fund included:
older adults (55+),
...
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Further Education and Training Authority (SOLAS)
Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS)
Enhancing quality and standardisation: develop scientifically robust, high-quality training guides for 130 approved specialisations and future ones and establish a standardised methodology for creating and updating training guides, educational materials, and exam topics banks.
Alignment with Job profiles: use certified occupational profiles, ESCO skills databases, and international vocational education practices to ensure relevance and applicability,...
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The project is a comprehensive initiative to update and develop educational materials for SAEK (Former IEK) programmes. It is expected to include three distinct actions:
Conducting a study to investigate the characteristics, specificities, and challenges in the field of initial vocational education.
Developing an educational methodology and producing training guides and educational materials based on it. This action includes the development of a training guide for both learners and trainers,...
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General Secretariat for VET, Lifelong Learning and Youth
National Organisation for Certification of Qualifications and Vocational Guidance (EOPPEP)
The project aims to develop a national tool, to help forecast the VET related labour market needs. They intend to have two applications operational by the end of 2025: one for monitoring graduate employability and one for higher VET schools , containing enrolment data, grades, call deadlines, and exchanges.
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The tool will support the students making career decisions, provide the VET schools for the basis to adjust the open curriculum, and enable the entire VET system to modernise vocational standards and VET programmes.
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The Labour Market Platform is one of the strategically significant operations within the European Cohesion Policy Programme (EKP) in the period 2021-27, which is co-financed by the Republic of Slovenia and the European Union from the European Social Fund Plus (ESF+). Its primary objective is to establish a labour market and competence forecasting platform that effectively connects employers, jobseekers, and public employment service advisers. Additionally, it aims to provide decision-makers...
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According to the project plan, a fully functional online labour market platform is set to be developed in three phases. Initially, a prototype and the first working version will provide users with labour market needs forecast data. The next phase will introduce data on labour market trends and the alignment between supply and demand. By 2028, the platform is expected to offer comprehensive insights into occupational and skills gaps, proposals for mapping competences in education programmes,...
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Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (MDDSZ)
In the submission report to the 2022 amendment to the Act on employment services (5/2004), the labour ministry declared the strategic nature of the scope of the Sectoral Councils Alliance and sector councils and the need to 'ensure the sustainability of the management system of these decisive instruments of active labour market policy aimed at describing the demands of the labour market for jobs and the transfer of these needs to the system of lifelong learning'.
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The amendment to the Act on employment services established the Sector Councils Alliance (SCA) as the interest association of legal entities. Membership is stipulated by law containing labour and education ministry representatives, representative associations of employers and representative associations of trade unions. Admission of other members is possible based on the statute of the SCA agreed with the government.
According to law, the SCA 'establishes sectoral councils covering relevant...
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The long-term goal of the 2024-29 project is to address labour market gaps, reduce youth and adult inactivity and unemployment, and contribute to economic growth. Achieving this overall goal depends on progress in three areas related to the improvement of the response of the VET and lifelong learning to the labour market needs by systems' higher permeability and flexibility. Goals and specific outputs related to these areas are as follows:
Response of VET to the labour market needs is...
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The main activities of the project comply with the three aforementioned objectives and six measures. The Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatisation (MIRRI) serves as the National Coordination Unit while the project operator is the State Institute of Vocational Education in partnership with the Swiss Federal University of Vocational Education. Switzerland has committed up to CHF 5 750 000 covering a maximum of 85% of the total eligible project expenditures over 55...
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Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatisation
Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family
Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth
State Institute of Vocational Education (ŠIOV)
Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport (until 2024)
The National Education System Development Plan defines the strategic priorities and measures for education at all levels for the period up to 2027, including specific measures for IVET and adult education, based on the analysis of development needs and challenges for each priority.
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In response to the challenges affecting VET, the National Education System Development Plan for the period up to 2027 proposes a number of measures, building on key reform initiatives from the previous strategic period. The specific measures related to VET (Area 3 of the Plan) include:
3.1. Continuing the VET curricula reform and introducing new modular, outcome-oriented curricula to VET providers.
3.2. Supporting VET providers in implementing new curricula, programme profiling, and aligning...
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The Policy for the Digital Transformation of Education meets the priorities adopted in the EU policy initiative 'Digital Education Action Plan for 2021-2027'. One of the basic goals of digital education indicated in the Polish strategy is 'preparing for the effective, safe and responsible use of available digital resources, as well as motivating to learn, providing competences that enable creativity and the ability to develop talents and interests, rather than passively using available tools...
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The Policy for the Digital Transformation of Education describes the actions necessary in the face of the digital revolution and sets the framework for state policy in the area of the digitalisation of education in the following time perspectives: short-term (until 2027), medium-term (until 2030) and long-term (until 2035 ).
It comprises two complementary perspectives: developing digital competences of students and teachers, using digital technologies to strengthen...
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The aim of the Database is to link supply and demand for further education in one platform and to simplify processing of financial support for further education of training participants through the Labour Office of the Czech Republic.
The Database also supports development of career management skills of individuals. It helps people to choose the right course according to their interests, needs and abilities.
The aim of the Database pilot which will be conducted during 2023-2025 is to:
expand...
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The target groups of the Database include all the adults with links to the labour market (including students aged 18+ who are preparing to enter the labour market). The Labour Office has expanded its activities beyond unemployed persons to include those who are in employment and want to acquire the competencies needed to retain their current jobs. Additional target groups include persons on parental leave, self-employed persons and senior citizens with links to the labour market (working...
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The overall objective of the strategy is to increase the share of adults participating in lifelong learning to 12% by 2027 through more and better formal, non-formal and informal learning.
The specific objectives of the strategy 2024-2027 are:
intensification of the role of partners/partnerships for the support and development of the strategic framework for adults' professional training,
improving personalised / tailored - made and specific learning offers,
facilitating adults' access to...
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The strategy was developed with the support of EU funding (Erasmus+ 101051428-SNFA-ERASMUS-EDU-2021-AL-AGENDA-IBA).
During the design phase, the labour ministry consulted employers, professional training providers, social partners, regional employment agencies, and NGOs.
The cooperation pillar focuses on updating legislation and strengthening the role of partnerships in adult training, alongside capacity building for training providers.
The personalised learning pillar promotes flexible...
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Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity
Ministry of Education
National Centre for TVET Development (CNDIPT)
National Qualifications Authority (ANC)
National Agency for Employment (ANOFM)
Ministry of Economy, Entrepreneurship and Tourism
Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development
Ministry of European Investments and Projects
National Institute for Scientific Research in the Field of Labour and Social protection (INCSMPS)
The government aims to contribute to achieving SDG 13 (take urgent action to combat climate change and its impact) by:
reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 55-60%;
achieving 1 million professionals educated in ICT by 2030, focusing on skills and knowledge relevant to implementing sustainable digital technologies, promoting energy-efficient solutions, and aligning with the content outlined in the policy's development framework.
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To advance efforts in urgently combating climate change and its impacts, in 2023 the government introduced the 'National Programme for Circular Economy 2023-2030'. The ambition laid down in this programme is to become a circular economy by 2050. In all parts of the economy and society initiatives will be developed, amongst which education and labour market. Labour market ambitions are outlined in the 'Action Plan for Green and Digital Jobs', by Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate...
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The objective of the policy development is to create guidelines for using AI in teaching and learning in early childhood education and care, pre-primary education, primary and lower secondary education, general upper secondary education, vocational education and training and liberal adult education.
The objective of creating the AI Guidelines is also to promote the digitalisation of education and to support the European artificial intelligence act, also known as AI Act, that came into force...
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The Ministry of Education and Culture and the Finnish National Agency for Education have decided to prepare the AI guidelines in collaboration with education providers, scholars and other experts in the field and considering existing academic and policy work, such as the AI competency framework for teachers (UNESCO).
The guidelines are to support the early childhood education and care, pre-primary education, primary and lower secondary education, general upper secondary education, VET, and...
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The main objectives of project in cooperation with the OECD are:
to identify the main opportunities regarding skills in Bulgaria;
to develop tailored policy recommendations for improving Bulgaria's skills performance with the participation of the whole government, in collaboration with all ministries and stakeholders.
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The cooperation with the OECD, with its methodology for skills strategies, is an action decided in the context of the proposals of the European Skills Agenda in relation to national skills strategies. More precisely, the European skills agenda recommends joint action by the Commission and EU Member States to develop national skills strategies based on the relevant OECD methodology.
Activities related to the development of the skills strategy are also reflected in the national documents within...
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The implementation of the project will support the development of the VET system.
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The Modernisation of vocational education and training (VET) (hereinafter Modernisation of VET) project is co-funded by the European Social Fund (ESF) through the operational programme Education 2021 -27 with direct beneficiary the education ministry. This project is designed to contribute to make VET more agile, responsive to labour market needs and to enhance its attractiveness. The education ministry manages the project activities and ensures the institutionalisation of key developments....
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Ministry of Education and Science
National Agency for Vocational Education and Training (NAVET)
It is important to develop professional collaborations that involve students and teachers in Hungarian vocational training in regions outside the borders. This can generate a positive trend in the labour market, that would strengthen the integration and the relations of Hungarian vocational training in Hungary and beyond.
The goal is to support the development of the professional and general skills of Hungarian communities beyond its borders in a way that matches increasing European and...
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The working group of the VET Innovation Council, Vocational training development in the Carpathian Basin, mapped future opportunities. The working group carried out the mapping between 2021-22. At its November 2022 meeting, the VET Innovation Council adopted the findings and proposals of the working group. The department responsible for VET development of the Ministry of Culture and Innovation has already started to elaborate the concept for the development of vocational training in...
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The published policy platform Progressing A Unified Tertiary System for Learning, Skills and Knowledge outlines 35 key objectives that could be summarised as follows.
Learning and Development Opportunities: creation of HE/FET collaborative programmes through the development of more collaborative approaches to programme planning, development and delivery across the sectors;
Inclusion: development of more unified frameworks across FET, HE and research and innovation (R&I) to progress equality,...
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Creating a unified tertiary system is one of the strategic priorities of the National FET strategy 2020-24. Key stakeholders, DES, Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI), SOLAS (the national authority for FET), Higher Education Authority (HEA), Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI), the Technological Higher Education Association (THEA) and the Irish Universities Association (IUA) agreed on an action plan to work towards a more strategic and consistent transitions approach to FET and...
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Further Education and Training Authority (SOLAS)
Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS)
Higher Education Authority (HEA)
Technological Higher Education Association (THEA)
Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI)
Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI)
Irish Universities Association (IUA)
City of Dublin Education and Training Board (CDETB)
Cavan Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB)
Cork Education and Training Board (CETB)
Donegal Education and Training Board (DETB)
Dublin Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board (DDLETB)
Galway Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB)
Kildare Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB)
Kerry Education and Training Board (KETB)
Kilkenny Carlow Education and Training Board (KCETB)
Louth Meath Education and Training Board (LMETB)
Longford Westmeath Education and Training Board (LWETB)
Laois Offaly Education and Training Board (LOETB)
Limerick Clare Education and Training Board (LCETB)
Mayo Sligo and Leitrim Education and Training Board (MSLETB)
Tipperary Education and Training Board (TETB)
Waterford Wexford Education and Training Board (WWETB)
Creating CotFs, supported with capital investment, is aimed at putting in place a FET system that provides cutting edge, quality and accessible education and training to potential learners, staff, employers and communities. CotFs should improve the perception of FET and lifelong learning in the Irish society by being centres of community-based learning excellence.
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The National FET Strategy defined that CotFs should have the following characteristics:
consolidation: CotFs are single integrated colleges;
dual outcome focus: the offer of courses designed to facilitate immediate entry to careers and employment and those that link directly to further study in HE, exploring opportunities for co-delivery with HE institutions;
access pathways: supporting a learning pathway from a network of FET providers offering Level 1 to 4 provision;
consistent learner...
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Further Education and Training Authority (SOLAS)
Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS)
Education and Training Boards Ireland (ETBI)
Cavan Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB)
Cork Education and Training Board (CETB)
City of Dublin Education and Training Board (CDETB)
Donegal Education and Training Board (DETB)
Dublin Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board (DDLETB)
Galway Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB)
Kildare Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB)
Kilkenny Carlow Education and Training Board (KCETB)
Louth Meath Education and Training Board (LMETB)
Longford Westmeath Education and Training Board (LWETB)
Limerick Clare Education and Training Board (LCETB)
Mayo Sligo and Leitrim Education and Training Board (MSLETB)
Kerry Education and Training Board (KETB)
Laois Offaly Education and Training Board (LOETB)
Tipperary Education and Training Board (TETB)
Waterford Wexford Education and Training Board (WWETB)
The Action Plan aims to deliver an apprenticeship system that is flexible and responsive, providing a strong value proposition for employers and potential apprentices, attractive and easy to engage with, and delivers high standards and sought after qualifications.
The main objectives of the plan are:
a high quality and innovative approach - apprenticeship will deliver the highest quality of work-based learning (WBL), supporting and demonstrating innovation to empower apprentices and employers...
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Ireland's Action Plan for Apprenticeship 2021-25 was launched in 2021 by the Ministers for Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science and the Minister of State for Skills and Further Education. The plan aims to expand the types of programmes available and increase the number of apprenticeships to 10 000 per year by 2025. The plan is to ensure equity of access by creating simplified routes to entry, and improved flexibility within the system so that underrepresented groups...
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Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS)
The core objective of the external review is to evaluate the implementation and effectiveness of an ETB's internal quality assurance procedures.
The purpose of the inaugural review of ETBs quality assurance was to:
encourage a quality culture and improvement of the learning environment and experience in the ETBs by using evidence-based, objective methods and advice;
provide feedback to ETBs about the overall effectiveness of their quality assurance, organisation-wide quality and the impact of...
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The external review is conducted by review teams. National and international external reviewers are selected for their expertise in one or more specific areas, providing perspectives from education and training, quality assurance, learner voice, community and industry. SOLAS and the Adult Learning Association (AONTAS) provide support to the review teams.
The external review examines the following aspects:
Governance and management of quality
The review evaluates the comprehensive oversight...
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Quality and Qualifications Ireland (QQI)
Further Education and Training Authority (SOLAS)
Waterford Wexford Education and Training Board (WWETB)
Kilkenny Carlow Education and Training Board (KCETB)
Tipperary Education and Training Board (TETB)
Mayo Sligo and Leitrim Education and Training Board (MSLETB)
Longford Westmeath Education and Training Board (LWETB)
Louth Meath Education and Training Board (LMETB)
Limerick Clare Education and Training Board (LCETB)
Laois Offaly Education and Training Board (LOETB)
Kildare Wicklow Education and Training Board (KWETB)
Cork Education and Training Board (CETB)
Kerry Education and Training Board (KETB)
Dublin Dun Laoghaire Education and Training Board (DDLETB)
City of Dublin Education and Training Board (CDETB)
Donegal Education and Training Board (DETB)
Galway Roscommon Education and Training Board (GRETB)
Cavan Monaghan Education and Training Board (CMETB)
Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS)
Improving the quality of adult learning in Europe by internationalising adult learning and training organisations, including VET, and the professional development of their staff.
Building communities of practice in various fields of adult learning, including vocational education and training, and between all stakeholders such as teachers and policy makers.
Facilitating the creation and sharing of (open) educational resources that can be used in adult learning, including the use of new...
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In Poland, the activities of the EPALE platform are the responsibility of the Foundation for the Development of the Education System, commissioned by the Ministry of Education and Science.
The European EPALE platform has been operating since October 2014. From the beginning, it has been available in the Polish language. The current contract for the implementation of the project by the EPALE national office covers the period from April 2022 to the end of 2024.
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Ministry of Education and Science (from 2021 until 2024)
Ministry of National Education
Foundation for the Development of the Education System (FRSE)
setting up a national team of experts for vocational education and training;
providing support to beneficiaries in implementing EU tools related to vocational education and training (VET).
Its mission is to improve the quality of VET and to support the cooperation of vocational schools with employers in Poland and Europe. The team also serves higher education, especially State higher vocational schools in practical studies.
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In 2021, the Foundation for the Development of the Education System began providing organisational services to the Team of Experts for Vocational Education and Training (EVET) nominated by the Ministry of Education and Science. They work closely with the National Europass and Euroguidance Centre, also run by the Foundation. The Team's main tasks include promoting and advising on the practical application of EU instruments related to supporting educational mobility, ensuring high-quality...
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Ministry of National Education
Foundation for the Development of the Education System (FRSE)
Ministry of Education and Science (from 2021 until 2024)
The Human capital development strategy reflects and answers the main challenges faced by Poland in supporting human capital development and increasing social cohesion. The challenges outlined by the strategy are: formal and non-formal education quality improvement; health system advancement; increasing the fertility rate; changing the functioning of public administration due to the ageing processes; and poverty and social exclusion prevention.
The strategy set up four strategic goals:
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The strategy update was coordinated by the ministry responsible for family, labour and social security. The final version of the document was adopted in 2019. The strategy is implemented by 15 different institutions, including the ministries responsible for education, digitalisation, labour, health or justice.
The implementation of the strategy goals includes strategic projects outlined in the Strategy for responsible development, and supplementary projects grouped in two areas: social...
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Ministry of Education and Science (from 2021 until 2024)
The main goal of the action plan is to prepare the workforce for the modern economy by developing high-quality, relevant, effective and inclusive VET at all levels. The document also provides information on national challenges and main objectives in vocational education and training, as well as the most important tools and measures to be implemented.
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The action plan includes the following five specific measures:
implementing the integrated skills strategy through the development of professional skills in formal and non-formal education, including skills related to green and digital transitions;
provision and professional development of staff for the VET system;
the development of career guidance and promotion of VET;
implementation of innovative and durable mechanisms of cooperation at national and international levels in VET, favouring...
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Ministry of Education and Science (from 2021 until 2024)
In response to the 2020 Council Recommendation on VET and the Osnabrück Declaration on VET, the education ministry prepared a comprehensive National implementation plan (NIP), which sets out the following eight objectives to address European priorities and achieve national targets:
excellent, inclusive and accessible VET for all;
high employment rate of graduates;
sustainable and competitive fields of study/qualifications in IVET and CVET relevant to labour market needs based on digital and...
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Eight priority areas were identified in relation to the achievement of the objectives, five of which explicitly target VET, two target lifelong learning in parallel with VET ((f) and (h)) and one targets interlinking general education and VET (e):
centres of excellence in VET;
in-company training centres;
higher VET transformation;
quality assurance in IVET and CVET;
prevention of early school leaving;
basic skills;
individual learning accounts;
a new system of lifelong learning introduced...
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Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth
Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport (until 2024)
To ensure the supply of teachers and trainers, and support specialists.
To empower teachers, heads of schools and other staff in VET to provide quality education and training.
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In order to develop the competences of teachers, trainers and heads of school, the following measures are foreseen:
building the capacity of schools to develop the content of VET, including curriculum development and in-service training for vocational teachers;
pedagogical-methodological in-service training courses (including special pedagogy and andragogy) for VET teachers, in-service training in digital pedagogy for vocational teachers;
field-related training for vocational teachers,...
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to provide access to state-of-the-art equipment and technology;
to improve citizen services;
to facilitate digital transition;
to improve the quality of VET provision;
The timeframe for all measures included in this policy development is the end of 2025.
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This development exemplifies the fourth and fifth objectives of the 2022-24 Strategic plan for vocational education and training , lifelong learning and youth and is also part of the Greek National implementation plan for VET recommendation and Osnabrück declaration. It contains the main actions/activities comprising the digital transformation and modernisation of infrastructure and equipment.
Development of a digital platform for VET
The digital platform for VET is expected gradually to...
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Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs
General Secretariat for VET, Lifelong Learning and Youth
National Organisation for Certification of Qualifications and Vocational Guidance (EOPPEP)
Ministry of Education, Religious Affairs and Sports
To aid lifelong learning and recognition of competences and qualifications through establishing a system of transferable credits used in the professional training of adults.
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The development of the transferable credit system includes methodology for granting transferable credits for the professional training of adults including categories of skills to be considered for certification of competences: key, technical and occupation-related. It facilitates mobility and complies with the general provisions regarding competences acquired in education and training, including adult training.
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The action plan for lifelong learning aims to transform Flanders into a lifelong learning society. This is essential to increase innovation potential and productivity and to prepare Flanders for transformations such as climate change and the ageing population. This is an initiative to promote VET and lifelong learning; it also strengthens key competences in VET.
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On 30 October 2020, the lifelong learning partnership was established, to stimulate the participation in lifelong learning through working out a joint approach across sectors and policy areas. This partnership is composed of representatives from the Socio-Economic Council of Flanders (SERV), education and training providers, the private training providers, the Lifelong Learning Committee of the Flemish Education Council (VLOR) and a higher education expert from the Vlerick business...
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Reinforcing a positive and valuing image of dual certification modalities among young people, families, educational communities and the business community.
Increasing the attractiveness of qualification level 4 dual certification offers.
Encouraging and motivating adults to complete their training or schooling paths.
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There are different kinds of initiatives and events to promote and disseminate VET:
Professional Education and Training Campaigns (Campanha de Educação e Formação)
The campaign targets young people who are in the ninth grade (13-15 years old) when taking an informed and well-guided choice is of the utmost importance. Civil society, and particularly parents and guardians of young people in the third cycle of basic education are also target groups. It will promote vocational education as...
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Institute for Employment and Vocational Training (IEFP)
National Agency for Qualification and Vocational Education and Training (ANQEP)
Directorate General for Education (DGE)
Higher education institutions
Directorate General for Educational Establishments (DGEstE)
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This measure is part of INCODE.2030. The Portugal digital academy is a national initiative that aims to bring digital competences to all Portuguese people including migrants), investing in inclusion and digital literacy, in the education of new generations, in the qualification of the active population, in advanced and specialised training of senior staff and in research. It is a free course aggregator platform where all citizens can improve their digital competences regardless of age. The...
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Institute for Employment and Vocational Training (IEFP)
Agency for Competitiveness and Innovation (IAPMEI)
Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Administrative Modernisation (Until April 2024)
Portugal Digital Mission Structure
Secretary of State for Modernisation and Digitalisation
To eliminate the problems identified and improve adult education quality, the project plans to develop a quality assurance system through the development of models of self-evaluation and external evaluation of adult education institutions in order to improve adult education based on relevant research data.
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The project Development of a quality assurance system in adult education is financed under ESF Operational programme Effective human resources 2014-20. The implementation period of the project is 40 months beginning from January 2019. The project has a total value of EUR 2 368 780 (HRK 17 838 099). The body responsible for the implementation is the Agency for VET and Adult Education (ASOO). The project is aimed at improving the quality of the adult education system through the development of...
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The amendment of the Law on Adult Education aims at the alignment of the regulations with the development of the national qualifications framework and to improve the quality assurance system, to ensure quality and effective education focused on the needs of the individual and the labour market.
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The 2021 Law on Adult Education provided guidelines for the development of a comprehensive quality assurance system and allowed for the validation of non-formal and informal learning. With the 2021 law, the adult education system has been completely aligned to the national qualification framework and based on occupation and qualification standards. The 2021 law also introduced micro credentials as units of learning outcomes designed to help individuals acquire specific sets of skills aligned...
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The purpose of the project is to provide relevant information on real time data and short-, medium- and long-term forecasts on labour market needs to mitigate skill mismatches and skill and labour shortages.
The project aims to upgrade/further develop short-term (up to 1 year) competence and profession forecasting based on current methods and tools and to develop a methodology of medium- (3-5 years) and long-term (10 years) forecasting. The project will also help to establish institutional...
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The project is managed by the Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (MDDSZ) in cooperation with the Employment Service of Slovenia. The Skills forecasting platform, a comprehensive online information system for labour matching and skills anticipation, is of key importance in tackling future challenges in the labour market and education system. It will contribute towards a well-functioning labour market and the creation of quality jobs, providing the...
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Ministry of Labour, Family, Social Affairs and Equal Opportunities (MDDSZ)
Aiming to support the adaptability of workers, enterprises and the entrepreneurial environment to the new development requirements, the Labour Institute of General Confederation of Workers (INE/GSEE) implemented integrated and targeted actions to align VET and training programmes to the labour market and to sectoral up- and reskilling needs. These actions contribute to further development of quality assured systems for initial VET (IVET), continuing VET (CVET) and lifelong learning and the...
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The INE/GSEE implemented the project Support to quality development of industrial vocational training and its alignment with employee certification (regardless of age), under the priority, Development and update of occupational profiles and framework curricula, under the operational programme, Competitiveness, entrepreneurship and innovation, during 2017-21.
The occupational profiles are based on a methodology for developing occupational standards in line with the Hellenic Qualifications...
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Labour Institute of General Confederation of Workers (INE/GSEE)
Ministry of Development and Investments
Small Enterprises' Institute of the Hellenic Confederation of Professionals, Craftsmen and Merchants (IME GSEVEE)
Hellenic Federation of Enterprises (SEV)
Centre of Hellenic Commerce and Entrepreneurship Development (KAELE ESEE)
Institute of Greek Tourism Confederation (SETE-INSETE)
National Organisation for Certification of Qualifications and Vocational Guidance (EOPPEP)
The main objective of the policy is to support society, companies, the academic world and public administration in taking advantage of artificial intelligence development.
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The policy document describes actions and goals in the short, mid and long-term perspective that will serve the development of Polish society, economy and science in the area of artificial intelligence (AI). It is organised into 6 policy areas, one of which is education, including VET. The actions in this area will include updating curricula and supplementing teaching programmes with AI information and solutions, increasing access to education tools (including online tools) for AI and...
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The strategy is the fundamental document for shaping regional policy in Poland to 2030. It identifies development challenges for the country from a regional perspective, determines the major action directions and principles and specifies regional policy objectives and measures to be taken by the government, local governments and other entities involved in the implementation of this policy. According to the strategy, the main objective of regional policy is the effective use of domestic...
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The National strategy for regional development 2030 (NSRD) was adopted by the Council of Ministers on 17 September 2019. One of the objectives of the strategy is the development of human and social capital in the following subareas: vocational and higher education, continuing education, labour market and social capital. The strategy outlines several initiatives in these areas:
establishing mechanisms to encourage universities to cooperate with entrepreneurs;
increasing entrepreneurs'...
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The Strategic plan 2022-24 includes three sub-pillars and sub-strategies for VET to ensure lifelong learning (LLL) with focus on adult learning and youth. These sub-pillars are part of the same strategic objectives and complement each other in providing a holistic approach to VET and lifelong learning, with a focus on designing VET policies, updating VET and LLL programmes in accordance with labour market needs, and adjusting VET offers to regional needs.
More specifically, the strategic...
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The six strategic objectives of the plan are further analysed into sub-objectives that serve the effective implementation of the strategy.
More specifically, the implementation of the first strategic objective, Development and strengthening of VET and LLL with emphasis on quality assurance, is achieved through the following sub-objectives:
increasing the attractiveness of VET through the creation of new opportunities;
design of VET and LLL programmes and their quality assurance;
investment in...
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Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs
General Secretariat for VET, Lifelong Learning and Youth
LLCS 2030 focuses on the most urgent topics that were not or were only partly covered by the National recovery and resilience plan. It also paves the way for the replacement of the obsolete Lifelong Learning Act (568/2009) with new legislation.
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LLCS 2030 focuses on four thematic areas: the qualification system; basic skills and civic education; lifelong learning, counselling, and motivation of citizens for lifelong learning; and building a system of skills management and identification of lifelong learning needs. It proposes 51 measures divided into 13 thematic units corresponding to topics in need of urgent intervention:
second chance education and 'F-type programmes' (ISCED 253) for low achievers in lower secondary general...
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Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth
Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family
Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatisation
Alliance of Sectoral Councils
Sector Councils Alliance
Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport (until 2024)
Providing teachers and secondary learners with laptops so that they can participate in digital classrooms.
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The Government of the German speaking community decided to equip teachers and secondary learners (including apprentices) with laptops to guarantee good functionality of online classes. The Ministry of the German-speaking Community is responsible.
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The measure is part of the Equal start initiative: development of the lifelong learning support system (2021-24) and has the following objectives:
Develop a digital platform that would make it easier for learners to find training programmes in one place, including the creation of an individual learning account system;
help to change the culture of lifelong learning in Lithuania by offering more flexible learning opportunities;
invest more purposefully in strengthening the most relevant...
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The platform development project is carried out by three ministries: Ministry of Education, Science and Sport, Ministry of Economy and Innovation, and Ministry of Social Security and Labour. It is expected that the unified system will be operational by the end of 2022. It is funded by the Lithuanian economic recovery and resilience plan.
The unified adult education support system will be convenient for all users: learners, training providers, individuals seeking learning opportunities. Higher...
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To support the national labour market policy by providing analysis and data on the skills needed for key professions/occupations in all economic sectors.
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The initiative is funded by the ESF under the operational programme (OP): Human resource development 2014-20, and is implemented through two components.
Component one has been implemented by the labour ministry and component two by the national employer organisations. A unified toolkit has been developed in component 1, including methodologies and requirements for job research and identification of the digital skills required for the development of digital skills profiles in key positions and...
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Ministry of Labour and Social Policy(MLSP)
National employer organisations
National employee organisations
National Agency for Vocational Education and Training (NAVET)
In addition to the provision of IVET and CVET (upskilling, reskilling), centres of vocational excellence (CoVEs) must offer retraining of teachers, head instructors and instructors, offer work-based learning opportunities for dual learners contracted by SMEs (as SMEs often lack the full technological resources or capacity to cover the full scope of a qualification), and be an interface between basic schools (lower secondary education in particular) and VET schools and between VET schools and...
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The creation of CoVEs is determined by the Lifelong learning and counselling strategy for 2021-30 adopted by the government on 24 November 2021. According to the strategy's action plan, a pilot phase to transform some of the existing centres of VET into CoVES was scheduled to start in 2022, co-funded by ESIF (specific objective 1.4 'Developing skills for smart specialisation, industrial transition and entrepreneurship' under Operational programme Slovakia 2021-27). About 20 CoVEs should have...
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Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth
Ministry of Labour, Social Affairs and Family
Ministry of Investments, Regional Development and Informatisation
Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport (until 2024)
The VET agreement enables conditions for vocational training, particularly the certified variety, to be a significant part of the growth effort, ensuring recognised training, alignment with the needs of companies and sectors, and recognition of individual training, improving their employability.
It also aims to deepen the role of the social partners in the training system. This will be done without prejudice to the need to integrate the reflection in a global vision of the National...
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The VET agreement is to be a common ground of a tripartite understanding, between the government and the social partners, in the following areas of intervention:
regulation and governance of the vocational training system (framework and regulation, regulation model and financing sources and quality improvement);
further development of the system's instruments and responsiveness (improve the flexibility of the SNQ, strengthen responses to sectoral needs and dynamics and improve incentives for...
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The objective is to promote efficient skills provision and lifelong learning in the long term and facilitate transition to the labour market. The aim of the initiatives included in the assignment is to reinforce the conditions for authorities and other actors to create and provide digital services that strengthen individuals' positions in the labour market while meeting the skills needs of the private and public sectors.
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In June 2021, the government gave several national authorities involved in education and employment the mission to develop digital services that provide data about education and the labour market, as well as to establish forms for the management of a coherent data infrastructure for the provision of skills and lifelong learning. These authorities shall jointly investigate the conditions for, and begin work on, developing common concepts or translation keys between existing conceptual...
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Law 4763/2020 aims to promote the joint strategic planning of VET. To this end, it reforms VET governance substantially to avoid overlaps, better address labour market needs and support autonomy at VET provider level.
The main objectives of Law 4763/2020 are:
providing knowledge, skills and competences in accordance with the needs of the labour market;
improving employability for all.
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According to Law 4763/2020, the General Secretariat for VET, LLL and Youth is responsible for designing, implementing, coordinating and monitoring policies in the relevant fields. It is also the supervisory body for the implementation and monitoring of VET and LLL programmes.
In addition, the law set up advisory bodies (including social partners and VET stakeholders) at national and regional level to support VET governance.
Nationally, the main advisory body introduced is the Central council...
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Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs
General Secretariat for VET, Lifelong Learning and Youth
The National recovery plan will direct the funds obtained by Poland (EUR 58.1 billion) from the EU Recovery and Resilience Facility (RRF) into specific reforms, programmes and investments, including those relating directly to VET. The plan aims to increase productivity of the economy and create high-quality jobs.
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The process of designing the National recovery plan was managed by the Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy (MFiPR). In February 2021, the document was submitted for public consultation, which influenced its final shape. In May 2021 the plan was officially submitted to the European Commission.
Its main areas of focus are:
resilience and competitiveness of the economy;
green energy and reducing energy intensity;
digital transformation;
availability and quality of the health care system,
...
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Ministry of National Education
Ministry of Funds and Regional Policy
Ministry of Development and Technology
Ministry of Family, Labour and Social Policy
Ministry of Education and Science (from 2021 until 2024)
The objective of the Plan for Digital Appropriation is to transform the Brussels-Capital Region into a Smart City harnessing digital transformation to benefit all citizens, by adapting services, renewing interfaces, and transforming organisations. Key to this vision is the enhancement of citizens' accessibility and basic digital skills in a comprehensive and ongoing way, leading to an overall improvement of the well-being of its citizens (privately and professionally) and boost its regional...
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Following its memorandum on e-inclusion, the Government approved the Plan for Digital Appropriation 2021-24 on the 12 February 2021. This plan was proposed by the Digital Inclusion Coordination and drawn up in consultation with stakeholders on the ground.
The implementation is organised in four areas defining 17 projects including 66 actions:
a. Raising awareness and destigmatising - raising citizens' awareness of digital tools and services, how to use them and on the support or training...
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Increasing the capacity of pedagogical teams to meet the needs of learners of all ages in digital skills.
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Within the framework of the European Commission's support for the development of an adapted training offer in the context of the implementation of the Skills enhancement pathways, several stakeholders from the Belgium French speaking community are working together in the framework of the EU programme for employment and social innovation EASI to implement a training strategy for basic digital skills for jobseekers and adult learners with little schooling.
In line with this strategy, The Start...
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Public Service of Wallonia (SPW) for Economy, Employment, Research - Department of Employment and Vocational Training
Training Service for Small and Medium-sized Enterprises (SFPME)
The plan will set in motion a framework of actions promoting digital transformation that focuses on citizens, companies and public administration. It includes long-term initiatives aiming to reshape the country's economic structure and public sector and measures of immediate impact.
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The action plan for the digital transition has three main pillars. Each one comprises three sub-pillars:
Capacity building and digital inclusion of people
digital education,
professional training and reskilling,
digital inclusion and literacy,
Digital transformation of enterprises
entrepreneurship and investment attraction,
existing companies (with a focus on SMEs),
scientific and technological knowledge transfer to the economy,
Digitalisation of the public sector
digital...
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Presidency of the Council of Ministers [Presidência do Conselho de Ministros]
Secretary of State for Digitalisation and Administrative Modernisation (Until April 2024)
Secretary of State for Modernisation and Digitalisation
The Ministry's long-term objective and task is to create conditions for all higher education institutions to provide quality education to students in full-time, combined and distance forms of study, as well as through lifelong learning courses that are open to the general public; to carry out research, development, artistic and other creative and professional activities, the outputs of which will support the social, economic and cultural development of the country; and, to make higher...
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The SP2021+ formulates a general vision for higher education and its significance for society.
Six priority objectives have been set:
develop competences directly relevant to life and practice in the 21st century;
improve the availability and relevance of flexible forms of education;
improve the efficiency and quality of doctoral studies;
strengthen strategic management and the effective use of capacities in research and development at higher education institutions;
build capacity for the...
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The roadmap sets out a vision for education and research extending to 2040. It outlines the changes in resources, structures and guidance that will be needed to respond to, and to influence, the factors changing the national and international operating environment and to create the conditions for a meaningful life for everyone.
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The targets presented in the roadmap and the measures needed to achieve it are based on the state of play in education and research as well as on key factors for changing the education and research environment. Finland's demographic trend is the most significant factor affecting the education system. The birth rate is dropping, age groups are smaller, and people live in growth centres in increasing numbers. The report (roadmap) outlines the guidelines for the future of the Finnish education...
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To improve approaches to developing and implementing VET curricula and examination as well as recognition of prior learning.
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VET provision, curricula, examination
In December 2016, the ESF project 'Development of sectoral qualifications system for vocational education development and quality assurance' was launched to develop new occupational standards and modular VET programmes for most of professional qualifications (sectoral qualifications).
In 2017, amendments to the Vocational Education Law specified the legal framework for the modularisation of VET programmes. VET modules were included in the State vocational...
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IVET schools and adult education and training providers have to operate as an Accredited Examination Centre (AEC) to raise the quality of the VET programmes they offer. The National Accreditation Office (Nemzeti Akkreditációs Hivatal) is entitled to certify an AEC, based on the standards defined by the Hungarian Standards Institution (Magyar Szabványügyi Testület).
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An important innovation of the Act on VET LXXX of 2019 is that final vocational examinations will be delivered by AECs instead of VET institutions and AL providers. The centres will run the exams for both (full or partial) VET qualifications listed in the national register of vocational occupations and vocational qualifications offered in adult training.
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Ministry of Culture and Innovation
IKK Innovative Training Support Center (IKK Nonprofit Plc.)
National Accreditation Authority
Hungarian Institute for Transport Sciences and Logistics (KTI)
National Office for Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning (NOVETAL)
The content-based programme and outcome requirements (Képzési és Kimeneti Követelmények, KKK) of the qualifications listed in the register of vocational occupations and the adult training programme requirements of vocational qualifications are formulated in parallel with the publication of the Act LXXX of 2019 on VET and the government Decree on its implementation.
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Preparation and elaboration of the programme and outcome requirements (KKK) have been realised with experts, who know both their own profession and the learning outcome-based methodology well. The training programme of the VET institution or adult training provider is developed in accordance with the programme and outcome requirements (KKKs) in case of vocational occupations listed in the Register of Vocational Occupations and PKs in case of vocational qualifications acquired in the...
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Ministry of Culture and Innovation
IKK Innovative Training Support Center (IKK Nonprofit Plc.)
The objective of the policy development is to create, support and implement innovation-related curricula, teaching methods, technologies, digital content and teaching material in VET and AL.
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In February 2019, a new agency was established, the Innovative Training Support Centre (Innovatív Képzéstámogató Központ Zrt., IKK). It also works alongside the National Office for Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning (Nemzeti Szakképzési és Felnottképzési Hivatal) as a state administrative VET body. The IKK supports the implementation of the provisions of the VET Act of 2019 on innovation, digitalisation and related areas. IKK also implements GINOP (Economic Development and...
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Ministry of Culture and Innovation
IKK Innovative Training Support Center (IKK Nonprofit Plc.)
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The provisions of the Act on National Public Education CXC of 2011 allowed electronic filing and storage of school documents. In 2015, work started on the creation of an electronic management system for Hungarian public schools: the Public education registration and study information system - NEPTUN-KRÉTA (Köznevelési Regisztrációs és Tanulmányi Alaprendszer - NEPTUN-KRÉTA). The new system was piloted in 2016/17 and made compulsory in 2017/18 in all public schools. The Ministerial...
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Ministry of Culture and Innovation
Government Office of Pest County
National Office for Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning (NOVETAL)
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The VET Act of 2019 differentiates vocational education and vocational training. Vocational education can be provided within the IVET framework on the basis of programme and outcome requirements (KKKs) and in formal school-based adult education. Vocational training can be provided within the framework of adult training by adult training providers if they have been previously registered or authorised. Thus, CVET is divided into adult education and adult training. The qualifications provided...
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The new strategy aims to reform vocational education and training for young people and adults to ensure high quality training and a skilled labour force in line with the needs of the economy and new professions emerging.
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The government has accepted, by government Decision No 1168/2019. (III.28.), the new strategy mid-term VET policy strategy for the renewal of VET and adult education (AE), the VET system's answer to the challenges of the fourth Industrial Revolution'.
The VET 4.0 strategy is based on three pillars.
Attractive career opportunities for learners: learners must obtain competitive qualifications and knowledge required by the economy, which will provide a sound existence and high income. A...
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Ministry of Culture and Innovation
Hungarian Chamber of Commerce and Industry
VET Innovation Council
Sector Skills Councils
National Office for Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning (NOVETAL)
The Government Programme 2019-23 states: 'We will reinforce the implementation of the reform of vocational education and training, particularly supporting the provision of […] workplace learning and the development of apprenticeships. Together with the education providers, the Ministry [of Education and Culture] must draw up a model to implement full school days, which may also be delivered by making use of workplace learning and by promoting innovative local solutions. We will increase...
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A new Act on VET was adopted in June 2017 and entered into force in January 2018. The focus of the implementation of this latest reform is on the following elements:
a single Act on VET, i.e. VET for young people and adults within the same framework;
a single licence to provide education and to award qualifications;
flexible application and admission systems;
a clearer range of qualifications that better meets the needs of working life;
a single competence-based approach to completing...
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The government aims at increasing opportunities for retraining, continuous professional development, and professional specialisation education throughout working life, at developing apprenticeship training as a channel for reskilling and for adult education, and at providing flexible opportunities to study in higher education institutions. It also aims at developing study leave and financial aid for adult learners and improving the opportunities for studying while looking for a job.
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The reform of continuous learning, in line with the Government Programme for 2019-23, is prepared by a parliamentary group that includes members from all parliamentary parties. Labour market organisations, education providers and other key organisations and ministries are represented in the monitoring group.
Policy areas:
provision and financing of education;
identification of prior learning and students' income;
increasing opportunities for retraining, continuous professional development and...
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Service Centre for Continuous Learning and Employment
To expand the national framework for qualifications and other competence modules.
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In March 2018, the Ministry of Education and Culture set up a working group for the preparation and coordination of the expansion of the national framework for qualifications and other competence modules. The task of the working group was to specify in more detail the criteria specified in the Act on the national framework for qualifications and other competence modules (93/2017) and to formulate a proposal for the required legislative amendments.
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The strategic goals of the Quality strategy in VET aim to provide comprehensive long-term guidance for quality management and:
to implement comprehensive quality management in VET institutions;
to take customer orientation as the basis for activities;
to integrate continuous improvement towards excellence in all activities and decision-making;
to adopt evidence-based leadership and guidance;
to set clear targets for the quality and effectiveness of activities.
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The strategic goals included in the Quality strategy are to be put into practice by using development measures. The development measures proposed for each VET actor have been set out for the next 3 years (2020-22). The actors are VET providers, the Ministry of Education and Culture, the Finnish National Agency for Education, working life committees and the Finnish Education Evaluation Centre. The monitoring and the review of the quality management strategy will take place at the end of the...
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The project aims to supplement elements enabling the deepening competences of adult in further education.
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The project is aimed at creating and coordinating a network of further education entities. Within the project, reorganisation of the National register of qualifications (NSK) should take place, consisting of adapting the offer of authorisations to the needs of the labour market and optimising the network of authorised entities that award qualifications, among which are also VET schools. An emphasis will be put on the development of digital competences: educational programmes for the...
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Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs
Ministry of Education, Youth and Sports
National Pedagogical Institute of the Czech Republic
The FET strategy 2020-24, by simplifying the FET structure, aims to:
improve access to it;
support its learners consistently;
build its provision around a distinct, diverse and vibrant community-based FET college of the future.
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The FET strategy 2020-24 was developed in consultation with the FET sector and other key stakeholders. Consultation was wide-ranging and included bilateral meetings, regional workshops and a public call for submissions. Strategy development also involved developing an understanding of the policy context, the evolving environment and the nature of FET provision in Ireland, and then benchmarking this against other international approaches to further and vocational education and training.
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Further Education and Training Authority (SOLAS)
Department of Education
Department of Education and Skills (until 2020)
Department of Further and Higher Education, Research, Innovation and Science (DFHERIS)
The main objective was to identify, prioritise and propose solutions to the barriers to participation in FET faced by the long-term unemployed (those unemployed for over 12 months).
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This report contributes to the development of the evidence-based FET, in policy and practice, by providing the voice of the stakeholders, learners from some of the most vulnerable groups in society, educators, and employers.
In summary, the main challenges for reducing barriers to FET are: the lack of information and clarity around individual courses; the role of SOLAS and FET in general; addressing the negative socio-cultural attitudes towards FET; improved awareness of, and barriers to,...
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To provide legal arrangements making modern tools and instruments, which have been tested in various projects, compulsory in VET.
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Amendments to the law should allow students to receive a State-recognised partial vocational qualifications, thus promoting a competence-based approach in VET.
Introducing modular VET programmes should significantly reduce the time needed to respond to labour market skill demands. The content of the developed modular vocational education programmes needs to be flexible in vocational basic education, pre-secondary vocational education, vocational secondary education, vocational continuing...
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To improve adult education offer (more individualised and flexible), develop VET modular programmes for adults, provide support for employers to upskill and reskill employees, upgrade skills recognition, and improve financing (socially responsible and sustainable), quality, governance and awareness (public and employer) of adult education.
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Several activities support implementing the national policy for adult education:
updating the information about adult education and its policy making, linking the European Union and State priorities in adult education;
promoting the development of EU programmes in adult education and the dissemination of results in Latvia;
developing recommendations Upskilling pathways, to help those implementing adult education to implement education in a quality manner, observing the quality criteria set by...
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The aim of the national ESF project, System of verifying qualifications, is to set up a comprehensive system for verifying qualifications and results of non-formal and informal learning. The specific objectives are to:
establish structures and set mandatory procedures for lifelong learning with an emphasis on the validation and recognition of qualifications;
pilot in practice the system of validation of qualifications and their parts (units of learning outcomes).
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The project System of verifying qualifications, run by the State Institute of Vocational Education, started in 2019 and is expected to be completed on 1 February 2023. It aims to complement existing qualification standards of the National system of qualifications (NSQ) by developing assessment manuals and to suggest and pilot processes of validation of non-formal and informal learning concerning approximately 300 qualifications. 72 qualification cards placed in the national registry of NSQ...
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Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth
State Institute of Vocational Education (ŠIOV)
Sector Councils Alliance
Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport (until 2024)
The overarching goal of the national education strategy (guidelines) for 2021-27 called Future skills for the future society, is to provide for quality education to help realise people's potential, develop their ability to adapt and responsibly manage constant changes in society and the economy.
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There are four main areas of development envisaged in the national education strategy 2021-27:
Highly competent educators
Highly competent educational staff implies the training, attraction and retention of outstanding teachers and academic staff, as well as systematic and purposeful professional development, methodological and consultative support. Stimulating the motivation of teachers and academic staff is also important.
Availability of quality education to everyone
Quality education...
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The overall objective of the strategy is to equip the population of Estonia with the knowledge, skills and attitudes that prepare people to fulfil their potential in their personal, occupational and social life, and contribute to promoting both the quality of life and global sustainable development.
Three strategic goals have been set to achieve the general objective:
learning opportunities are diverse and accessible and the education system enables smooth transitions between levels and types...
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The education strategy applies an integrated approach to the development of the education system to make better use of Estonia's high-quality education for the benefit of people, society and the economy.
It continues to support the contemporary approaches to teaching and learning, considers rapid technological developments, strives to ensure the next generation of teachers and the renewal of teachers' roles, and it focuses more on the skills policy, including a clearer division of the roles...
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The suggested maximum of 10 knowledge centres materialised in 2017 as nine centres with different foci: robotics and automation (two centres), welfare technology (two centres: assisted technologies), process technology, craftsmanship and handicrafts, craftsmanship and design, sustainable building and energy related building renovation, e-business, and data-based service development. Each centre is placed in a VET college, but the centres also have close formal cooperation with knowledge...
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In July 2016, the Slovenian Qualifications Framework (SQF) Act came into force, serving as the legal basis for SQF implementation and full operationalisation. The SQF register describes qualifications in accordance with SQF and EQF levels and contains 1684 qualifications (1 358 educational qualifications, 312 national vocational qualifications and 13 supplementary qualifications). The adoption of the SQF Act in 2016 opened up the system to supplementary qualifications awarded on the labour...
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Institute of the Republic of Slovenia for Vocational Education and Training (CPI)
The project focuses on strategic planning and implementation of a comprehensive set of activities for the promotion of lifelong learning and adult education in Croatia.
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The Agency for VET and Adult Education (ASOO) conducted an ESF-funded project Promotion of lifelong learning from 2016 until 2019. The activities encompass a nationwide media campaign, organisation of the annual Lifelong learning week and International andragogy symposium, capacity building for decision makers and adult education teachers, and several dissemination conferences. In 2017, the Survey on adult education in Croatia included 2 369 participants throughout Croatia to determine the...
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In 2015-17, NQF and EQF levels continued to be added gradually to qualifications and certificates. The NQF and the levelling of qualifications thus became a visible part of national education databases. The framework is operational and forms an integral part of the Danish education and training landscape. Two (interconnected) websites are available: the nqf. dk website, which targets the international public; and the ug. dk website, which provides the national public with comprehensive...
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A new training agreement approach was set up in 2018. It foresees that practical training is included in all VET qualifications. Training at workplaces on practical work tasks can be apprenticeship training or training based on a training agreement. When applying for a training agreement, learners are not in an employment relationship (their status is that of a learner). Learners receive no salary and employers receive no training compensation. The details of the training agreement are...
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The National Office of Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning (NOVETAL), which is also the quality assurance national reference point (QANRP), used Erasmus+ funding to set up a national EQAVET expert network to strengthen the culture of quality assurance in VET and to cooperate with QANRPs from other countries to share experiences in workshops and peer learning activities. The national EQAVET expert network consists of four to six members, including representatives of the...
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National Office for Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning (NOVETAL)
IKK Innovative Training Support Center (IKK Nonprofit Plc.)
The aim of the project is to improve the quality and content of 21st century vocational training and adult education.
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The aims of the project Improving the quality and content of 21st century vocational training and adult education (GINOP - 6.2.4) include the review of the examination system, the development of a validation system and the preparation of a methodology for VET content development that is compatible with open and innovative learning settings as well as the demands of the economy. Uniform criteria were also developed to strengthen the external evaluation system in CVET. Criteria include...
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Ministry of Culture and Innovation
IKK Innovative Training Support Center (IKK Nonprofit Plc.)
National Office for Vocational Education and Training and Adult Learning (NOVETAL)
To facilitate access to educational resources that are specifically used for distance learning or education processes.
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In education authority VET, the education community can find and create structured teaching material ready to be downloaded and used by teachers and learners in Procomún, the Repository of open educational resources (OER) of the ministry, operated by the National Institute for Education Technologies and Teacher Training (INTEF). Another initiative is the Educational Technology Observatory, which provides a virtual library with articles for teachers written by teachers about how to use...
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Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (until 2023)
Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports
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In December 2018, the Council of ministers approved EUR 8.6 million (three times the previous budget), jointly financed by the European Social Fund, for VET teacher training, upskilling and mobility. The distribution criteria, agreed by the Autonomous Communities, take into account the number of teachers and the number of secondary schools and / or baccalaureate centres and / or VET centres. CPD training provision for teachers also encompasses guidance practitioners.
The framework for VET...
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Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (until 2023)
Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports
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During 2017, discussions in relation to access to the teaching professions took place at a sectoral conference on education and a revision of legislation was agreed. The Educate for the 21st century forum was held on 6 November in which challenges and proposals on the teaching profession developed by experts over the last few years were presented. Agreement was reached on the need to moderate the recruitment of temporary staff (a consequence of the economic crisis). Greater stability in...
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Ministry of Education and Vocational Training (until 2023)
Ministry of Education, Vocational Training and Sports
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In 2016, SOLAS and ETBI published a Strategy for technology-enhanced learning in further education and training 2016-19. The strategy examines ways of bringing technology into the further education and training sector to facilitate innovative teaching and learning practices. In 2017, the SOLAS corporate plan for 2017-19 outlined its goals, one of which is to support the Education and Training Boards in expanding delivery options, including the use of ICT and technology-enhanced learning to...
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Establishment of the national system for validation of non-formal and informal learning and certification of competences, for lifelong learning.
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The Law 92/2012 on the reform of the labour market defines for the first time in Italy the validation of non-formal and informal learning, as one of the key elements to ensure and implement lifelong learning in a comprehensive and systematic manner, establishing rules and regulatory requirements (standards) concerning the characteristics of the system and the stakeholders involved, ensuring transparency, usability and broad accessibility of validation/certification services (IVC).
In recent...
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Ministry of Labour and Social Policies
Regions and autonomous provinces
Ministry of Education and Merit
Ministry of Education (until 2022)
Ministry of Universities and Research
Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (until 2019)
Guarantee individual mobility and support the match between supply and demand of skills in the labour market; heighten the recognition and transparency of learning acquired and needs, as well as the use of certifications at national and European level;
ensure the readability, consultation and portability of qualifications and competences for lifelong learning in the context of the National system for the certification of competences.
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In 2013, the Legislative Decree No 13 article 8 sets up the National repertory of education and training and professional qualifications.
In 2014, the National Technical Committee was established and works for the development of the National repertory that is a comprehensive collection of national, regional and sectorial repertories existing and encoded by the entitling bodies. The entitling bodies are the qualification authorities: education ministry (for school and university...
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Ministry of Labour and Social Policies
Ministry of Education and Merit
Ministry of Education (until 2022)
Regions and autonomous provinces
Ministry of Education, Universities and Research (until 2019)
Examples of eligible activities within Don't BE disQUALIFIED (NedisKVALIFIKUJ SA!) call include:
creating and carrying out programmes aiming to develop competences complying with labour market requirements including ICT and financial literacy;
supporting second chance programmes, enabling adults to complete lower secondary education;
supporting inclusive education activities for people with special educational needs;
supporting young people experiencing difficulties with their employment;
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Don't BE disQUALIFIED (NedisKVALIFIKUJ SA!) is the motto of a 2016 call for projects launched by the education ministry, focusing on key competence development and enhancing/upgrading skills. Project topics include continuing VET. Applications exceeded by two times the available ESF co-funded budget of EUR 15 million. 144 projects have been in progress since 2018, but have been delayed due to administrative complications. In 2017, EUR 7 million were allocated to ESF projects focusing on the...
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Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth
Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport (until 2024)
Enrich the public discourse on lifelong learning and skills development, learn from international experience in preparing a new lifelong learning strategy, a new act on lifelong learning, and in achieving coherence in future policies on skills development.
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The education ministry has started an international project (with a budget of EUR 350 000) aimed at elaborating a National skills strategy for the Slovak Republic, in cooperation with the OECD. A launch conference was held on 29 January 2019 and a final OECD report is expected by the end of March 2020.
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Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport (until 2024)
The objective of the national programme was to identify priorities for reforming the education system, including VET, and to quantify expenditures for respective measures.
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On 27 June 2018, the government approved the National programme for the development of education (NPDE). The NPDE was adopted, with 106 measures to be fulfilled until 2027. Some measures related to regional schooling and higher education are relevant also to VET. Measures directly aiming to align VET to labour market are as follows:
increasing the quality of dual VET through the funding of professional and employer organisations involved; they will receive approximately EUR 1 million annually...
Bodies responsible
This section lists main bodies that are responsible for the implementation of the policy development or for its specific parts or activities, as indicated in the regulatory acts. The responsibilities are usually explained in its description.
Ministry of Education, Research, Development and Youth
Ministry of Education, Science, Research and Sport (until 2024)
The Action plan for adult education addresses four strands:
higher vocational education;
liberal adult education through folk high schools;
adult IVET and adult apprenticeship in IVET;
adults' right to general education.
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What/How/Who/For whom/When of the policy development in detail, explaining its activities and annual progress, main actors and target groups.
The Action plan for adult education (Kunskapslyftet, the knowledge boost) was introduced in 2015. It is aimed at supporting the Swedish government's goal of lowering unemployment rates. Relevant legislation/regulation and funding arrangements have been changed/adopted. The plan aims, at the same time, to address skilled labour shortages and enable people to (re)train.
Bodies responsible
This section lists main bodies that are responsible for the implementation of the policy development or for its specific parts or activities, as indicated in the regulatory acts. The responsibilities are usually explained in its description.
To ensure high-standard and regularly updated teacher competences supporting quality teaching and learning.
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What/How/Who/For whom/When of the policy development in detail, explaining its activities and annual progress, main actors and target groups.
The National Centre for TVET Development implemented several projects through which continuing teacher and trainer-in-companies training was offered.
One of the projects aimed to improve the skills and competences of teachers and trainers involved in work-based learning, through an Erasmus+ pilot training programme (DALIVET 2014-16). An accredited training course was introduced to increase the competences of 23 vocational education and training (VET) school teachers and 22 trainers. The...
Bodies responsible
This section lists main bodies that are responsible for the implementation of the policy development or for its specific parts or activities, as indicated in the regulatory acts. The responsibilities are usually explained in its description.
Ministry of Education
Ministry of National Education (until 2021)
Directorate for Continuous Teacher Training
National Centre for Policy and Evaluation in Education (Unit for Research in Education)
To guarantee that teachers and trainers have the necessary competences for the teaching profession and can progress in their careers.
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What/How/Who/For whom/When of the policy development in detail, explaining its activities and annual progress, main actors and target groups.
In 2016, the Ministry of National Education changed the procedure for awarding the teacher confirmation certificate (Definitivat certificate). After completing a 1-year period of teaching, prospective teachers take a simplified teacher confirmation examination.
The written test consists of two parts instead of three: one part is focused on the subject in which the candidate specialises (60% of the total grade); the other is focused on the teaching methodology (30% of the total grade), while...
Bodies responsible
This section lists main bodies that are responsible for the implementation of the policy development or for its specific parts or activities, as indicated in the regulatory acts. The responsibilities are usually explained in its description.
To raise teaching quality standards and implement a master programme for the teaching profession as part of initial teacher training.
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What/How/Who/For whom/When of the policy development in detail, explaining its activities and annual progress, main actors and target groups.
A master degree has been legally required as a condition for entering the teaching profession since 2011 (Education Law), but the implementation of this provision did not start in 2015-16 as planned, leaving it as an option.
The law was revised in May 2015, focusing on the organisation and implementation of a master of arts (MA) for the teaching profession: a 2-year programme including academic studies, practical training (throughout three semesters) and research (linked to the MA...
Bodies responsible
This section lists main bodies that are responsible for the implementation of the policy development or for its specific parts or activities, as indicated in the regulatory acts. The responsibilities are usually explained in its description.
To improve the level of literacy, numeracy and digital skills of adults (the unemployed, employees and the inactive) with a low level of education and training and/or help them acquire at least an EQF level 1 qualification.
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What/How/Who/For whom/When of the policy development in detail, explaining its activities and annual progress, main actors and target groups.
The 2015-20 lifelong learning strategy addressed the acquisition and validation of key competences that help early leavers from education to find jobs. The measures included revision of the validation methodology, quality assurance and training of staff in assessment centres of prior learning. The allocated financing allowed 45 000 adults to acquire key competences.
In order to facilitate access to upskilling for low-qualified adults, the labour ministry introduced EQF level 1 qualifications...
Bodies responsible
This section lists main bodies that are responsible for the implementation of the policy development or for its specific parts or activities, as indicated in the regulatory acts. The responsibilities are usually explained in its description.
Ministry of Education
Ministry of National Education (until 2021)
Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity
Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (until 2021)
To allow comparing the qualification levels of different countries using the EQF grid description based on learning outcomes.
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The Romanian national qualifications framework was referenced to the EQF in April 2018 and the next revision of the referencing report is foreseen to take place in 2023.
Bodies responsible
This section lists main bodies that are responsible for the implementation of the policy development or for its specific parts or activities, as indicated in the regulatory acts. The responsibilities are usually explained in its description.
National Qualifications Authority (ANC)
Ministry of Education
Ministry of National Education (until 2021)
Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity
Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (until 2021)
To develop an education and training system adapted to the demands of the labour market and its direct and indirect beneficiaries through fostering the labour market relevance of VET; improving participation and facilitating access to VET programmes; improving VET quality; and fostering innovation and cooperation in VET.
To reduce unemployment among young people, and especially young NEETs and ensure that all under age 25, who lose their job or who do not find a job after finishing their...
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The strategy for education and vocational training in Romania for 2016-20 was adopted in 2016 (government Decision No 317 on 27 April 2016). It proposes the development of both an open-access and attractive and competitive system, offering quality education and training services in order to respond quickly and relevantly to the needs of people and the economy through efficient management of available resources. All individuals should benefit from the opportunity to acquire high-level...
Bodies responsible
This section lists main bodies that are responsible for the implementation of the policy development or for its specific parts or activities, as indicated in the regulatory acts. The responsibilities are usually explained in its description.
Ministry of Education
Ministry of National Education (until 2021)
National Centre for TVET Development (CNDIPT)
Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity
Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (until 2021)
To increase participation in lifelong learning and improve the relevance of VET to the labour market needs. To have at least 10% of the adult population (ages 25-64) participating in lifelong learning activities by 2020.
The objectives are centred on three main strategic pillars: access and incentives for participation, quality and relevance, and partnerships for better information.
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Lifelong learning strategy 2015-20 was adopted in 2015. It addressed the need for strengthening partnerships between VET providers and enterprises, to increase the quality and labour market relevance of VET. Measures supported the take-up of apprenticeship contracts for people with low qualifications, with a target of 125 000 contracts to be awarded by 2020. Financial incentives (subsidies) were set to stimulate employers to engage in apprenticeship programmes, internships and job...
Bodies responsible
This section lists main bodies that are responsible for the implementation of the policy development or for its specific parts or activities, as indicated in the regulatory acts. The responsibilities are usually explained in its description.
Ministry of Education
Ministry of National Education (until 2021)
Ministry of Labour and Social Solidarity
Ministry of Labour and Social Protection (until 2021)
The project will contribute to increasing the access of adults to different forms of lifelong learning through the development of model programmes for vocational qualification courses (kwalifikacyjne kursy zawodowe - KKZ) leading to a qualification, and vocational skills courses (kursy umiejetnosci zawodowych - KUZ).
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What/How/Who/For whom/When of the policy development in detail, explaining its activities and annual progress, main actors and target groups.
In January 2016, the education ministry opened a call for proposals to develop model programmes for vocational qualification courses (kwalifikacyjne kursy zawodowe - KKZ) for adults. The assessment of applications was finalised in late 2016; three projects were selected and began to be implemented. The initiative is co-financed by the ESF. The aim is to support VET providers in expanding their offer for adults. The projects were completed at the beginning of 2018, with 81 model vocational...
Bodies responsible
This section lists main bodies that are responsible for the implementation of the policy development or for its specific parts or activities, as indicated in the regulatory acts. The responsibilities are usually explained in its description.
