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Training and skills for the Green Transition
The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) has published a Briefing Note on the Green Transition. Vocational Education and Training, they say, can provide the skills needed ... -
Apprenticeship for Artificial Intelligence Data Specialists
This may be of interest to some readers. One of the issues with AI and data science is that it is leading to pressure for change in vocational education and ... -
Good jobs, bad jobs, skills and gender
I have written before about the issues of interpreting sense making from Labour Market Data and the difference between Labour Market Information and labour Market Intelligence. This is exposed dramatically ... -
Work based learning
"Will US universities be made redundant by the employability agenda?', asks the Times Higher Education. It is a bit of a curious article. THE says that student debt and doubts ... -
Reflections on #ECER2018 – Part Three: The VETNET network in dialogue with the host country
With my previous posts I started a series of blogs on the European Conference of Educational Research (ECER 2018) that took place last week in Bolzano/Bozen. In the first post ... -
A European Framework for Quality and Effective Apprenticeships
A European Framework for Quality and Effective Apprenticeships (2018/C 153/01) has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Recommendation aims at increasing the employability and personal ... -
Issues in developing apprenticeship programmes: UK and Spain
After years of running down apprenticeship schemes through a policy focus on mass university education, the UK, in common with other European countries, has in the past few years turned ... -
Skills on their own are not enough
I have been involved in research in Vocational Education and Training for a long time. Vocational Education and Training is a strange thing. Although always popular in the German speaking ... -
Contradictions for developing apprenticeship in south Europe
A recent report from the Hans-Böckler-Stiftung, Let’s Transform Work! by Kerstin Jürgens, Reiner Hoffmann and Christina Schildmann, says that in 2016, in Germany, "for the first time, there were more ... -
An action research approach to studying apprenticeship in Spain
This is a new paper, written by Graham Attwell and Ana Garcia about the new apprenticeship system in Spain. The research was sponsored by the International Network on Innovative Apprenticeship ...
