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Background
Since 2012, with the support of the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth, and the professional Chambers, the Training Observatory has set up the longitudinal TEVA system, which studies young people's access to employment after their initial training. The Training Observatory produced several publications and tools for the dissemination of TEVA’s results.
Objectives
The aim of the TEVA Barometer is to support the provision of guidance and to inform partners involved in initial VET (IVET) governance.
Description
In 2018, the Training Observatory of the National Institute for the Development of Continuing Vocational Training (INFPC) set up the TEVA Barometer. This uses data from the TEVA study (Transition école- vie active – transition from school to working life), which has been monitoring more than 7 000 VET learners since 2009, and was a new tool to follow the early career stages of recent secondary education graduates in 74 VET trades and occupations. The Barometer provides 20 annually updated key indicators covering four stages of employment following leaving school: school leaving, meaning the rate of school-leavers in employment, first employment which relates to the percentage of first jobs under permanent contract as well as the average duration of first employment. Another stage is the employment during the first three years after leaving school, which relates to the percentage of employment under temporary or permanent contracts, by sector and company size. The last stage is the employment after three years, which relates to employment rate and medium hourly wage.
The Ministry of Education, Children and Youth, the Ministry of Labour, Employment and the Social and Solidarity Economy (MTEESS), and the professional chambers are involved in the initiative. The longitudinal study TEVA on the transition from education and training to working life (transition école – vie active), carried out by the Training Observatory of INFPC,...
In 2018, the Training Observatory of the National Institute for the Development of Continuing Vocational Training (INFPC) set up the TEVA Barometer. This uses data from the TEVA study (Transition école- vie active – transition from school to working life), which has been monitoring more than 7 000 VET learners since 2009, and was a new tool to follow the early career stages of recent secondary education graduates in 74 VET trades and occupations. The Barometer provides 20 annually updated key indicators covering four stages of employment following leaving school: school leaving, meaning the rate of school-leavers in employment, first employment which relates to the percentage of first jobs under permanent contract as well as the average duration of first employment. Another stage is the employment during the first three years after leaving school, which relates to the percentage of employment under temporary or permanent contracts, by sector and company size. The last stage is the employment after three years, which relates to employment rate and medium hourly wage.
The Ministry of Education, Children and Youth, the Ministry of Labour, Employment and the Social and Solidarity Economy (MTEESS), and the professional chambers are involved in the initiative. The longitudinal study TEVA on the transition from education and training to working life (transition école – vie active), carried out by the Training Observatory of INFPC, showed that apprenticeship graduates find quicker access to first employment than from school-based VET. According to the findings, the Ministry of Education, Children and Youth planned to extend the offer of programmes leading to the vocational aptitude diploma (DAP, EQF level 3). Some of the technician programmes (diplôme de technicien DT, EQF level 4) started to be offered as apprenticeships.
In 2019, the TEVA Barometer was in place and ran without important updates.
In 2020, VET graduates from the school year 2014/15 were integrated into the TEVA Barometer.
During 2021, the focus was slightly modified: the integration of graduates into work life was observed for the first year after school completion instead of the first three years. That change allowed for a comparative study, and consequently for the completion of studies with VET graduates from school years 2015/16, 2016/17 and 2017/18. An updated version of the on-line barometer was available.
In 2022, VET graduates from the school year 2018/19 were integrated into the TEVA Barometer which, as a result, presented the first year of working life of 10 generations of young VET graduates from 2009/10 to 2018/19.
In 2023, VET graduates from the school year 2019/20 were integrated into the TEVA Barometer which, as a result, presented the first year of working life of 10 generations of young VET graduates from 2010/11 to 2019/20. One year after leaving secondary school, 82% of IVET graduates are in employment, compared to 59% of non-graduates. When employed, graduates are more likely to have permanent contracts, are less likely to work part-time and are better paid than non-graduates.
In 2024, VET graduates from the school year 2020/21 are being processed.
In 2025, VET graduates from the school year 2020/21 were integrated into the TEVA Barometer which, as a result, presented the first year of working life of 10 generations of young VET graduates from 2011/12 to 2020/21 (22 indicators for 74 trades and professions).
One year after leaving secondary school, 80% of IVET graduates from the school year 2020/21 are in employment, compared with 68% of non-graduates.
In 2025, VET learners from the school year 2021/22 are being processed.
Bodies responsible
- Training Observatory of the National Institute for the Development of Continuing Vocational Training
Target groups
Learners
- Learners in upper secondary, including apprentices
- Young people (15-29 years old)
Education professionals
- School leaders
Other stakeholders
- National, regional and local authorities
Thematic categories
Governance of VET and lifelong learning
This thematic category looks at existing legal frameworks providing for strategic, operational – including quality assurance – and financing arrangements for VET and lifelong learning (LLL). It examines how VET and LLL-related policies are placed in broad national socioeconomic contexts and coordinate with other strategies and policies, such as economic, social and employment, growth and innovation, recovery and resilience.
This thematic category covers partnerships and collaboration networks of VET stakeholders – especially the social partners – to shape and implement VET in a country, including looking at how their roles and responsibilities for VET at national, regional and local levels are shared and distributed, ensuring an appropriate degree of autonomy for VET providers to adapt their offer.
The thematic category also includes efforts to create national, regional and sectoral skills intelligence systems (skills anticipation and graduate tracking) and using skills intelligence for making decisions about VET and LLL on quality, inclusiveness and flexibility.
High-quality and timely skills intelligence is a powerful policy tool, helping improve economic competitiveness and fostering social progress and equality through the provision of targeted skills training to all citizens (Cedefop, 2020). Skills intelligence is the outcome of an expert-driven process of identifying, analysing, synthesising and presenting quantitative and/or qualitative skills and labour market information. Skills intelligence draws on data from multiple sources, such as graduate tracking systems, skills anticipation mechanisms, including at sectoral and regional levels. Actions related to establishing and developing such systems fall under this thematic sub-category.
Subsystem
Further reading
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Type of development
Cedefop, & ReferNet. (2026). Monitoring VET graduates (TEVA Barometer): Luxembourg. In Cedefop, & ReferNet. (2026). Timeline of VET policies in Europe (2025 update) [Online tool].
https://www.cedefop.europa.eu/pl/tools/timeline-vet-policies-europe/search/28352