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Milana, Marcella; Vatrella, Sandra – Palgrave Studies in Adult Education and Lifelong Learning, 2020
This chapter applies a Welfare Regimes framework to further examine the processes of domestic adaptation to the Youth Guarantee (YG) in Austria, Bulgaria, Denmark, Estonia, Belgium, Italy, Slovakia, Spain and the United Kingdom. It connects the evidence from Chaps. 9 [ED616380]-17 [ED616377] to selected Welfare State Regimes' (WSRs)…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Youth Programs, Employment Qualifications, Job Skills
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2021
Concise, clear and comprehensive snapshots of vocational education and training systems in EU, Iceland and Norway: this is what the Cedefop Spotlight on VET series offers. Building on individual country Spotlights, this publication provides an overview of VET systems with their distinctive qualities, such as main accession and progression routes…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Apprenticeships, Secondary Education
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Fombona, Javier; Fombona-Pascual, Alba; Vazquez-Cano, Esteban – Studies in the Education of Adults, 2023
This article shows the result of an international project from the European Commission, and it aimed to analyse 30 cases of effective European entities in the field of adult education, from Poland, Spain, Finland and Italy. The objective was to collect the best strategies that generate good employment and social inclusion results. The research…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Cross Cultural Studies, Social Integration, Employment Opportunities
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2019
This research paper is one in a series produced as part of the Cedefop project The changing nature and role of VET (2016-18). The aim of the paper is to provide an overview of how CVET is conceptualised in various international level policy documents and how it is referred to across countries. It discusses national conceptions of CVET, the…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Continuing Education, Role of Education, Educational Change
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Papier, Joy – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2010
This article analyses recent national policy on further education and training (FET) college lecturer development in South Africa in the light of more established curricula and practice for the training of vocational teachers internationally. The policy published by the national Department of Education suggests standards for college teaching which…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Teacher Education, Vocational Education Teachers, Vocational Education
Boucouvalas, Marcie, Ed.; Avoseh, Mejai, Ed. – Commission for International Adult Education, 2015
The Commission on International Adult Education (CIAE) of the American Association for Adult and Continuing Education (AAACE) provides a forum for the discussion of international issues related to adult education in general, as well as adult education in various countries around the globe. The following purposes summarize the work of the…
Descriptors: International Education, Adult Education, Conferences (Gatherings), Foreign Students
OECD Publishing (NJ1), 2005
The Adult Literacy and Life Skills Survey (ALL) is a large-scale co-operative effort undertaken by governments, national statistics agencies, research institutions and multi-lateral agencies. The development and management of the study were co-ordinated by Statistics Canada and the Educational Testing Service (ETS) in collaboration with the…
Descriptors: Life Satisfaction, Familiarity, Numeracy, Demography