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After three ETF yearbooks and an equal number of years of fine-tuning their concepts and piloting their use in the field, this year the ETF considered the time has come to examine how these concepts can be translated into specific examples of innovation in human resources development in the partner countries. The ETF Yearbook 2007 therefore focuses on practical tools that promote quality in VET in countries in transition, such as national qualification frameworks, teacher and trainer development and key competences.

In this year’s yearbook, different components of quality development are analysed in six chapters that assess how they contribute to increased quality in learning. Topics covered by the chapters include national qualification frameworks, VET schools, teachers and trainers, key competences, and the difference between educational ‘policies’ and the reality of ‘politics’ in transition countries.

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The contents are: Introduction / Soren Nielsen and Margareta Nikolovska; Discussing national qualification framworks: facilitating policy learning in practice / Peter Grootings; Vocational schools in transition: dead-end street or the gate to prosperity?: key elements for the development of local human resource development providers / Karl-Axel Skjolstrup and Gerard Mayen; Teachers and trainers in vocational education and training reform / Soren Nielsen; National qualifications frameworks: tools for relating learning and employability in North Africa and the Middle East / Jean-Marc Castejon; Fostering key competences through learner and work-based vocational learning processes / Evelyn Viertel; How to achieve educational change in ETF partner countries: between dreams and reality / Margareta Nikolovska; Yearbook 2008: towards policy learning in action / Borhene Chakroun. Show less