Cedefop has launched a new online tool, the European vocational education and training (VET) policy dashboard, which shows, as graphs and tables, the progress by the EU overall and its Member States separately towards agreed quantitative targets.
These targets are set out in the documents framing VET policy and its context at European level. The dashboard groups them around Europe’s three key post-2020 policy objectives:
- VET for developing a lifelong learning culture;
- VET for resilience, transitions, sustainability and excellence;
- VET for the European Education Area.
High-quality and inclusive VET is central to achieving these objectives and the dashboard monitors VET’s contribution. Its data visualisations enable all types of users, such as European and national VET policy-makers, social partners, VET experts and professionals to easily monitor and compare progress towards the targets.
Users can monitor the progress of any Member State over time and can compare that with other Member States and/or with the EU overall. For example, the dashboard can tell someone how many low-qualified adults participated in learning in the previous 12 months in Germany and compare that with Spain, Slovenia or any other Member State as well as with the EU overall.
The quantitative targets in the European VET policy documents are set out in the dashboard’s summary charts as seven ‘progress indicators’. The sections dedicated to the key policy objectives, give a more comprehensive picture as the relevant progress indicators are accompanied by ‘context indicators’ to help understand and interpret changes.
Cedefop plans to accompany the data with commentaries on the statistical trends to help interpret progress, or lack of it, towards the agreed targets.
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For a more comprehensive statistical picture of developments in VET and VET systems in Member States and the EU overall, Cedefop now has available online its Key indicators on VET.