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With digitalisation accelerating, digital skills are at the core of employability. Vocational education and training (VET) policies rightly emphasise how crucial it is that Europe’s citizens have the possibilities and means to develop, upgrade or update their digital skills. To be fully effective, such policies need to be complemented with maximising teachers’ and trainers’ teaching potential to use technology and developing a positive attitude towards the need for conscious, ethical and inclusive use of digital tools.

Taking stock of the latest activities carried out within Cedefop VET4Youth team and the Ambassadors for tackling early leaving from VET, we are sharing a summary of the latest highlights, wishing everyone a restful summer break with this good read!

Just as we are about to enter 2023 year of skills, we have a good reason to celebrate: Cedefop VET toolkit for tackling early leaving has reached 20 key intervention approaches!

More than 14 million people are thought to have fled their homes since Russia's invasion of Ukraine, according to UN's International Organisation for Migration (IOM). About eight million people are displaced inside the war-torn country, while six million have left for neighbouring countries. From them, 2 million are school age.

Cedefop’s VET toolkit for tackling early leaving has been enriched with a new intervention approach on digital inclusion providing guidelines to integrate technology in VET educational practices in an effective way.

The use of digital tools opens a wide range of learning opportunities, especially for students with special needs and learning difficulties. ICT can facilitate and complement different teaching methods and lead to positive outcomes if it is well-targeted and certain conditions, such as the provision of digital guidance to VET teachers and practitioners, are met.

Supporting policy-makers and practitioners to promote inclusive excellence in VET

In order to provide practitioners and policy-makers with practical support, Cedefop launched the VET toolkit for tackling early leaving in May 2017 and its updated edition in 2019.

Starting the school year 2020/21 in the midst of a pandemic poses a host of new challenges for schools, teachers and training providers.

Cedefop’s ambassadors for tackling early leaving from education and training call for further support to address the needs of learners at risk and ensure their equal access to quality distance learning.

This is the third of a series of activities that you can use to promote reflection and good practice on how to tackle early leaving from education and training.

This is the second of a series of activities that you can use to promote reflection and good practice on how to tackle early leaving from education and training.

Cedefop’s study ‘Leaving education early: putting vocational education and training centre stage’ aims to increase knowledge