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Only around 100 apprenticeship contracts were concluded in Romania in 2012 ‒ a negligible number. It shows that this form of training, which could play an important role in increasing participation of youngsters in vocational education and the labour market, has yet to become popular with Romanian employers. Causes have been multiple to date, among which the frequent changes to the Apprenticeship Act, a piece of legislation most employers have deemed restrictive, creating a host of obligations while offering little support to those willing to take apprentices on board.
According to Romania’s labour code (Art. 31, (5) and (6)), higher education graduates’ first six months of employment may be constituted as traineeship. Special legislation is to be passed for this purpose. In March 2013, the Ministry of Labour initiated a draft law to regulate traineeship provision.
The second edition of the Cedefop conference newspaper, with readers’ comments, is out. The 12-13 June conference on work-based learning attracted more than 150 experts on vocational education and training from around the world, policy-makers from the European Commission and Member States as well as social partners.
Cedefop’s conference on work-based learning (12-13 June 2013) gathered more than 150 experts on vocational education and training from around the world, policy-makers from the European Commission and Member States as well as social partners’ representatives.
Participants in Cedefop’s conference on work-based learning (12-13 June) called for the implementation of European Union (EU) policy initiatives on developing apprenticeship and other forms of work-based learning across Europe in order to address rising youth unemployment. The conference gathered more than 150 experts on vocational education and training from around the world, policy-makers from the European Commission and Member States as well as social partners’ representatives.
Mergers are starting to feature in the Scottish further education college landscape. It is planned that the number of colleges in Scotland will be reduced from the current number of 42, and the remaining colleges will be structured within 12 regional clusters through further mergers and regional partnerships.
Slovenian VET recorded an important milestone this autumn. Supported by European Social Funds, several projects completed long years of work on implementation and evaluation of VET reform, starting in 2001
In 2010, the national associations of employers and employees, the Dutch Association of VET Colleges (the umbrella organisation of VET providers) and the umbrella organisation of the centres of expertise VET – Trade and industry signed a declaration of intent for the establishment of a new foundation which started on 1 January 2012.