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Vocational education and training - VET
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Compilation of information related to vocational training in English
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This publication provides guidance on how local and regional governments can foster business-education partnerships in apprenticeship programmes and other types of work-based learning, drawing on case studies across nine countries.
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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
As the country continues to experience skills shortages in key sectors of the economy, the report describes the country’s growing shortage of highly skilled labour as critical, predicting shortages in the Manufacturing, Automation and Energy and Utility industries. Supporting this view are findings from 32 countries around the world, which reveal that Canadian businesses are reporting serious problems finding the workers they need amidst a growing skills shortage.
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The New Zealand Qualifications Authority has developed a new approach to qualification design that moves away from a collection of individual competency standards to defining the qualification in terms of graduate profile outcomes, and employment and education pathways
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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
The case studies concurred that the impact of the global economic crisis on higher education was not as severe as anticipated. In some countries, public investment on education has increased as a result of various stimulus packages. This, in part, can be attributed to the countries’ recognition of higher education’s potential contribution to economic growth.
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This report sets out an analysis of the technical and conceptual characteristics of the European Qualifications Framework (EQF) and the New Zealand Qualifications Framework (NZQF) in their operational contexts, identifying key elements of comparability and similarities and differences in a mutually beneficial way.
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This is a preliminary study of the development of massive open online courses (MOOCs) in the New Zealand tertiary education sector. It is a research study, involving a series of original interviews with those involved in MOOCs as staff, senior leaders and developers in universities and polytechnics, union and student leaders and several officials from government agencies who had an interest in the field. The study also includes a brief literature search and a large collection of newspaper articles and reviews. Via Peter Mellow
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Canadian Vocational Association / Association canadienne de la formation professionnelle's insight:
This report investigates skill matches to job requirements for workers in Australia, New Zealand, the United States and Canada. It might be expected that differences between the four countries in economic growth, technological innovation and structural change in the labour market may have led to differences in job skill requirements and use. This research finds, however, that the broad match of workers to jobs that use their skills is quite similar for the four countries, although some differences in the patterns of skill use over time were identified.
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Successful workplace literacy and numeracy programs are dependent on effective strategies to recruit and then retain course participants. This article reports on the recruitment strategies used in a large workplace literacy and numeracy project. It provides an analysis of the strategies used, their rates of success in the companies, the overall retention rates and identifies effective ways to implement these strategies.
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This report explores quality assurance processes used for vocational education and training (VET) in five countries identified as key competitors in the international VET market. The report compares different quality assurance arrangements in Australia, Canada (Ontario), Germany, New Zealand, Singapore and the United Kingdom. It includes a particularly useful country by country breakdown of quality assurance systems in its appendices.
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