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Every year, NOKUT, the Norwegian agency for quality in higher education and upper secondary vocational education (nationally referred to as higher VET), conducts a survey among students about their study quality experience.
While facing the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic, the WorldSkills Croatia 2021 competition was held live from 11 to 13 May in Zagreb, Croatia, for over 300 IVET learners in 43 disciplines.
The Confederation of Portuguese farmers (CAP) carried out a study to identify the necessary key competences and skills for the development of the agricultural sector, and create new, or critically review and update existing, qualifications standards in the national qualifications catalogue (CNQ).
The international project Validation of transversal skills across Europe (TRANSVAL-EU), jointly carried out by 16 European institutions, is an example of policy experimentation with all activities coordinated at ministerial level. The project results are intended to provide specific tools to support lifelong learning further, ease mobility and promote transparency of competences across sectors.
A new programme aims to ease transition from upper secondary to higher education vocational studies, advance VET quality, ensure a smooth transition to higher education for learners with outstanding achievements, and raise awareness of the importance of career planning.
Linking the curriculum to the national register of qualifications (NSK) is one of the key activities set out by the education strategy 2030+. The aim is to offer learners who drop out of their three- or four-year IVET programme a possibility to gain vocational qualifications and thereby to enable their re-entry in education at a later stage.
The third survey on vocational training supply (OFP survey) in Italy for the training year 2019/20, conducted from July to December 2020 by the National Institute for the Analysis of Public Policies (INAPP), provided significant data, highlighting evolutionary dynamics that include in particular:
- an increased use of private funds in addition to public ones;
- higher investment in innovative digital technological competences and soft skills;
- the structural characteristics of the training centres that become more autonomous.
A new Act, drafted by the education ministry based on proposals in the minister's action plan, increases young people’s interest in VET and changes admission requirements for VET learners who wish to enter higher education.
The baromètre de la formation et de l’emploi is the second Centre Inffo opinion survey on continuing vocational guidance and training, carried out in January 2021.
Entrepreneurship education encompasses all education measures that contribute to the development of entrepreneurial attitudes and skills. The development of certain values and approaches is just as much a part of this as personal qualifications that are central to independent work and can lead to the creation of a business. With a ‘National action plan for entrepreneurship education’ published at the end of 2020, the government aims to push ahead with the development of entrepreneurship at all levels of education in Austria, especially in vocational education and training (VET).