This is the latest edition of the L&W Newsletter, which will reach you via a mailing list of over 1400 experts in and beyond Europe.
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Wednesday, 2 April, 2014
This is the latest edition of the L&W Newsletter, which will reach you via a mailing list of over 1400 experts in and beyond Europe.
Young people with vocational education and training (VET) qualifications, which include a significant amount of work-based learning, have higher employment rates compared to those who come from general education or from fully or mainly school-based VET, Cedefop Director James Calleja told the European Commission’s monitoring conference in Brussels (11-12 February).
A new issue of Cedefop's VETAlert has just been published and is featured below and attached for download. As always, the following subjects are covered: skill needs - qualifications –adult learning - education and training policies.
This Conference sought to establish where we were in Scotland with regard to social mobility and widening access to college and university and sought to make stronger connections amongst the practitioner, policy and research communities.
You are invited to submit information for the next edition of the Newsletter for European Research in Learning and Work [L&W], due to appear at the beginning of February 2014.
The issue of modularising vocational training systems has been the subject of debate at European level for some twenty years. Unitisation and modularisation of vocational training is also currently being debated hotly in many countries, and is regarded as one facet of a broader strategy to modernise training.
We are pleased to send you Cedefop's latest Briefing Note Keeping young people in (vocational) education: what works? for you to download in your preferred language (Spanish, German, Greek, English, French, Italian, Lithuanian, Polish and Portuguese) and format (Pdf or eBook optimised for tablets and smartphones).
A new issue of Cedefop's VETAlert has just been published and is featured below and attached for download.
As always, the following subjects are covered: skill needs - qualifications –adult learning - education and training policies.
Most referred publicationsand documents are accessible directly online.
We are very pleased to be part of this ERASMUS intensive programme on adult and lifelong learning, part-funded by the European Commission within its Lifelong Learning Programme at Julius-Maximilians-Universität, Würzburg, Germany from February 9-22, 2014.
University of Glasgow
Centre for Research and Development in Adult and Lifelong Learning (CR&DALL)
University of Glasgow, St. Andrew's Building, 11 Eldon Street, Glasgow G3 6NH, Scotland
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