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A new Vocational Education Institutions Act came into force in September 2013. It aims to ensure greater consistency of vocational training to labour market needs, improve quality, flexibility and availability of vocational training, reduce dropout rates of students, reorganise VET school management, simplify regulations concerning VET teachers, deepen an outcome-based approach, and increase differentiation in funding. To implement the new law, a VET management and curricula reform was launched in 2013.
In 2013, a unique set of data was created by Statistics Estonia that allows evaluating the social success of vocational or higher education institution graduates of 2006-11.
Today everybody needs relevant competences to manage their working lives. Making informed choices and taking important decisions on education and employment is important not only in a transition phase (if moving from one education level to another or moving from school to the labour market) but throughout life.
The implementation of the key competences recommended by the European Parliament started in Estonia in 2010 and is now well underway. The recommendation of the European Parliament (2006) defines eight key competences: communication in one’s mother tongue, communication in foreign languages, mathematical and technological competence, digital competence, learning to learn, social and civic competences, sense of initiative and of entrepreneurship, and cultural awareness and expression.
The ‘Noor Meister 2011’ (Young Master) skills competition took place on 1 and 2 December 2011 as part of the information seminar ‘Teeviit’ (Road Sign).
The European Inventory 2010 provides a unique record on how validation is already being used at national, regional and local level to address issues relating to lifelong learning, employment and social exclusion.
The overall aim of the programme is to ensure equal opportunities in education and in the labour market for all the residents of Estonia, regardless of their mother tongue.