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Concise, clear and concrete pictures of countries’ vocational education and training systems: this is what the Cedefop Spotlight on VET series offers. Building on individual country Spotlights, this publication brings together the main features and data of VET in the EU, Iceland and Norway.

While countries share goals and challenges, their VET systems are diverse, shaped by socioeconomic contexts and traditions. Information on VET’s main features, its role and status, are a prerequisite to understanding developments and learning from another country.

This compilation addresses all those who need a quick overview of essential features of VET in Europe. Clarifying the place of VET in countries’ overall education and training systems, it presents main accession and progression routes for learners; types and levels of qualifications they lead to; types of programmes, delivery modes, work-based learning ratio and duration. The approach and terminology used for the systems charts and descriptions aim for a balance between national and international readers’ understanding and for some comparisons between systems.

This publication is a useful starting point for work by policy makers, social partners, experts and researchers. It provides orientation to a range of other actors involved in VET-related activities: VET providers, teachers and trainers; guidance, qualifications and validation staff; and other readers who want to familiarise themselves with VET systems across and beyond Europe.

Publication details

Publication number
4168
Publication year
2019
Publication month
March
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Spotlight on VET – 2018 compilation

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Vocational education and training system in Austria

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Vocational education and training system in Belgium (BE-DE)

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Vocational education and training system in Belgium (BE-FL)

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Vocational education and training system in Belgium (BE-FR)

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Vocational education and training system in Bulgaria

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Vocational education and training system in Croatia

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Vocational education and training system in Cyprus

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Vocational education and training system in the Czech Republic

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Vocational education and training system in Denmark

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Vocational education and training system in Estonia

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Vocational education and training system in Germany

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Vocational education and training system in Greece

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Vocational education and training system in Finland

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Vocational education and training system in France

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Vocational education and training system in Hungary

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Vocational education and training system in Iceland

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Vocational education and training system in Ireland

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Vocational education and training system in Italy

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Vocational education and training system in Latvia

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Vocational education and training system in Lithuania

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Vocational education and training system in Luxembourg

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Vocational education and training system in Malta

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Vocational education and training system in the Netherlands

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Vocational education and training system in Norway

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Vocational education and training system in Poland

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Vocational education and training system in Portugal

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Vocational education and training system in Romania

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Vocational education and training system in Slovenia

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Vocational education and training system in Slovakia

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Vocational education and training system in Spain

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Vocational education and training system in Sweden

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Vocational education and training system in the United Kingdom

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