Mapping of VET graduate tracking measures in EU Member States

The systematic review and renewal of Vocational Education and Training (VET) is crucial to ensuring its continued quality and labour-market relevance. A better understanding of the performance of VET graduates in the labour market is one of the key sources for assessing and improving the quality and labour market relevance of VET, alongside forecasts of skills supply and demand. VET graduate tracking measures can provide this information to stakeholders. This study of such measures currently used in Member States finds that some countries do not have measures, others do not have regular measures and that many measures use either administrative data or survey data. Survey data often relies on convenience samples and small sample sizes which limit their use. There are good examples of measures which combine data and track cohorts of VET graduates over several years to measure educational and employment outcomes. The Commission could provide support or incentives to the creation or further development of good quality measures at national, regional or provider level.