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Perceptions on Adult Learning and Continuing Vocational Education and Training in Europe. Volume 1: Second Opinion Survey. Member States. Cedefop Reference Series. No 117
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Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2020
Impressions are influential. Through more than 40,000 interviews of people aged 25 and over in the European Union (EU), Norway and Iceland, this survey explores people's impressions about adult learning and continuing vocational education and training (CVET), which are central to enabling adults acquire the knowledge, skills and competences they…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Continuing Education, Job Skills
Perceptions on Adult Learning and Continuing Vocational Education and Training in Europe. Volume 1: Second Opinion Survey. Member States. Executive Summary
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Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2020
Impressions are influential. Through more than 40,000 interviews of people aged 25 and over in the European Union, Norway and Iceland, Cedefop's second opinion survey explores people's impressions about adult learning and continuing vocational education and training (CVET), which are central to enabling adults acquire the knowledge, skills and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Adult Education, Continuing Education, Job Skills
Key Indicators on Education, Skills and Employment, 2020
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Badescu, Mircea – European Training Foundation, 2020
These Key Indicators on Education, Skills and Employment (KIESE) are a collection of statistics that are part of a broader set of indicators proposed by the ETF to enable an assessment of developments in the field of human capital in the partner countries. They include data on education, initial vocational education and training, lifelong…
Descriptors: Educational Indicators, Employment, Vocational Education, Human Capital
In the Margins of Training and Learning
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Silvennoinen, Heikki; Nori, Hanna – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2017
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the distribution of learning and training opportunities in the Finnish workforce. It will concentrate on the sectors of the workforce that lack these opportunities. Design/Methodology/Approach: The Working Conditions Barometer (WCB) data from 2008, 2009 and 2010 are used (N = 3,326) in this…
Descriptors: Labor Force, Employees, Employers, Foreign Countries
School Completion Targets and the "Equivalence" of VET in the Australian Context
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Polesel, John; Keating, Jack – Oxford Review of Education, 2011
Located differentially (and to its detriment) within a status hierarchy of knowledge, vocational education has been called upon to satisfy an increasing range of political and social needs, including meeting the needs of industry and government and catering for increasing pupil diversity. Faced with stubbornly immobile rates of school completion…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Graduation Rate, Educational Policy
Learning Cultures in Small to Medium-Size Enterprises and Their Role in Supporting the Learning Region
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Fitzpatrick, Maeve; O'Connell, Janice; Murphy, Eamonn – Journal of Adult and Continuing Education, 2010
The role of work-based learning is a pivotal part of developing the learning region. With rates of employment at their highest for many years across Europe, the need for up-skilling the workforce in many areas will be essential to retain competitiveness and employability. This paper will focus on quality management up-skilling in small to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Expertise, Economic Climate, Labor Force Development