Vocational Education and Training (VET)

Vocational training counteracts and helps prevent early leaving from education and training

Vocational education and training (VET) can help attract young people with different abilities and learning backgrounds to education. It also plays a decisive role in retaining them in the education system or reintegrating them after a drop-out experience.

Recent datasets contain a wealth of qualitative information on young school leavers’ and returners’ trajectories and their individual motives: What type of education/training programme have they left, and why? How many of them return to education? How many choose VET pathways? And how many graduate eventually?

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Friday, 16 October, 2015

Working and Learning in Times of Uncertainty. Challenges to Adult, Professional and Vocational Education

I’m very glad to announce that the fourth book in ESREA book series now is published, Working and Learning in Times of Uncertainty. Challenges to Adult, Professional and Vocational Education. This book is edited by the network conveners for ESREA research network for Working Life and Learning, Sandra Bholinger, Ulrika Haake, Christian Helms Jørgensen, Hanna Toiviainen and Andreas Wallo.

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Sunday, 11 October, 2015

Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers: Potentials for a Learning Space in a Changing World

ESREA Access, Learning Careers and Identities Network, 25–27 November, 2015, University of Seville, Spain - First Call for Papers - Continuity and Discontinuity in Learning Careers: Potentials for a Learning Space in a Changing World.

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Saturday, 1 August, 2015

Call for Papers to RELA

The European Journal for Research on the Education and Learning of Adults (RELA) is a refereed academic journal creating a forum for the publication of critical research on adult education and learning.

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Friday, 24 July, 2015

Skillset and match – May 2015 issue

A special edition of Skillset and match magazine celebrating Cedefop’s 40th anniversary is now available to read and download.

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Tuesday, 19 May, 2015

An Invitation to contribute to DISCUSS

DISCUSS, the European Platform for Communities of Practice in Lifelong Learning seeks to do the following:

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Wednesday, 18 March, 2015

LETAE National Seminar

** A report on this seminar may be found here **

Work-based and work-related learning in higher education for adult learners is seen as crucial to address the predicted labour market skills gap identified in such communiques as: New Skills for New Jobs Anticipating and matching labour market and skills needs; and, An Agenda for new skills and jobs: A European contribution towards full employment as part of the Europe 2020 strategy.

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Tuesday, 17 March, 2015

Newsletter for European Research in Learning and Work [L&W] - February 2015

This is the latest edition of the L&W Newsletter, distributed directly to more than 1400 experts in and beyond Europe. As always, it focuses on transnational research activities in the field of human resource development (HRD) and vocational education and training (VET), centred on major categories: conferences, networks, programmes, projects and publications.

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Thursday, 5 February, 2015

Teaching your grandmother to suck eggs - An inter-generational learning workshop

You are all invited to a half-day seminar to introduce aspects of intergenerational learning, tutoring and research on February 24 from 12:30-16:00 at the Urban Big Data Centre, 7 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow G12 8RZ.

Speakers include Jane Watts of NIACE, Tiina Tambaum, Tallin University, Estonia and Alison Clyde, National Development Officer at Generations Working Together.

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Saturday, 24 January, 2015

Skillset and Match – January 2015 issue is out!

The January issue of Cedefop’s magazine Skillset and Match, the first of our 40th anniversary year, is available to read and download. It is packed with exclusive messages and interviews, features, news from EU Member States and information on new publications.

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Friday, 23 January, 2015

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