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This document provides a cross-country analysis of the current situation in relation to [vocational education and training] VET governance in the nine countries in the [southern and eastern Mediterranean] SEMED region that are participating in the [European Training Foundation's] ETF's [Governance for Employability in the Mediterranean] GEMM project. It presents a clear review of the challenges that these countries are facing as they seek to improve VET outcomes through better management and partnership at the national and local levels.

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In 1998, more than 100 researchers and vocational training experts from most European Union (EU) Member States and other countries in Central and Eastern Europe attended a conference that was held in collaboration with the German Federal Ministry for Education, Science, Research and Technology and the European Training Foundation (ETF) to: examine how comparative vocational training research is related to policy and practice and how it contributes to the transfer of innovation in the European context; and assess the current situation and highlight prospects for the development of comparative vocational training research in future.

This conference paper was presented at the first workshop and is based on the findings of a 1997 research project which analysed trends in policies and practices in the education and training systems of the current Member States of the European Union over the last 10 years in order to contribute to an understanding of the trends of convergence and divergence and their policy implications at European level. The research was carried out at the Institute of Education, University of London for the European Commission’s Directorate General XXII. The paper begins with an overview of the convergent and divergent trends and briefly explores some of the underlying factors. It then explores the trends in initial postcompulsory vocational education and training, and in continuing education and training.

The volume of papers is indexed at TD/TNC 72.305; selected papers are indexed from TD/TNC 72.306 to TD/TNC 72.330. Show less

This paper is one of a series addressing aspects of the role of the socioeconomic context in the development of education, training and employment systems. It is organised into eight broad themes to describe trends in systems development and vocational education and training (VET) provision. The first two explore aspects of the context in which VET operates: decentralising aspects of management and administration of the education service; and, the prevailing view of lower secondary education as a transitional and preparatory stage before further education and training. The following four themes concern aspects of the systems and provision of initial VET: increasing and extended participation in post-compulsory education and a prolonged and less secure transition to the labour market for young people; a continuing distinction between general and vocational education accompanied by governmental effort to raise the status of VET and improve the flexibility of educational pathways; the policy push to encourage closer partnerships between the education sector and business and industry; and, an increase in the role of social partners, especially employers, in VET, particularly at the national level. The last two themes briefly examine aspects of higher education and continuing VET: the development of higher education in response to lifelong learning and new social, economic and labour market conditions; and, the tendency of continuing training to emphasise the skill development of valued and capable employees rather than those facing disadvantage and labour market exclusion.

The volume of collected papers is indexed at TD/IRD 88.37. Show less