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'Europe's true problem is not one of a deficit of skills, but primarily a deficit of creation of good quality jobs,' Cedefop Director James Calleja told the European Parliament of Enterprises on 16 October in Brussels. |
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The annual NAPO meeting, bringing together procurement officers from all EU agencies and including contributions from DG Budget, DG Informatics and the European Court of Auditors, was hosted by Cedefop on 16 and 17 October. |
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Literacy skills of adults aged 25-64 with general education tend to be higher than for those with vocational qualifications across all European countries covered by the OECD's Survey of Adult Skills. |
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To address the issue of skill shortages in European businesses, 'we need to move towards work-based learning and quality apprenticeships, eliminate as much as possible inequalities in training and attract non-trained workers,' Cedefop Director James Calleja told the European Business Forum on Vocational Training (23-24 September), in Brussels. |
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Forty one European agencies, including Cedefop, showcased their work at the European Parliament between 6 and 9 October. |
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A delegation of German federal MPs, members of the Bundestag's Budget Committee, visited Cedefop on 17 September accompanied by the German General Consul and met with the agency's Deputy Director Mara Brugia. |
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'With our limited resources we will try to come closer to the Member States and work with them to push vocational education and training (VET) reform further,' Cedefop Director James Calleja told the first validation workshop of the agency's review of Lithuania's and Malta's apprenticeship systems. |
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Last May, Cedefop held an expert workshop on how credit transfer systems can open doors between vocational and higher education. Participants investigated how credit transfer systems work in practice, and sought complementary and alternative solutions to the challenges these systems face. |
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Cedefop hosted a meeting of the Governing Board of the Norwegian Union of Municipal and General Employees (Fagvorbundet) on 22 and 23 October. |
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Arguing for guidance to ease the integration of third country immigrants into the European labour market may seem untimely given today's high youth unemployment, but anticipating future developments and informing policy-makers are one of Cedefop's main tasks. |
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Cedefop's web portal is undertaking a major makeover. In the second week of November, the new web portal will go live with a fresher look and feel, also providing several new features. |
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Europe has not yet harnessed the full potential of continuous vocational education and training (CVET): we need to increase participation, especially of disadvantaged groups. But if we make CVET more accessible, can we ensure high quality? |
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Guiding principles on professional development of trainers in VET |
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This report provides an insight into Italian VET and recent developments. |
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In recent years, several reforms have been carried out in Italy to make vocational education and training (VET) more flexible and help it respond better to labour market needs. |
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Developments in sectoral and occupational classifications have a serious impact on the consistency of time series data, which are essential for comparisons of future and past trends and good forecasting. This publication highlights technical difficulties caused by changes in international classifications of sectors (NACE) and occupations (ISCO) and how these changes were managed in Cedefop's skill forecasts results. |
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CEDEFOP/2014/03/AD |
Deadline:10/11/2014 |