Making skills transparent: recognising vocational skills acquired through workbased learning
This paper looks at the importance of mechanisms that give formal recognition to vocational skills acquired through work-based learning and how such mechanisms might be developed. It describes how skill recognition can benefit individuals, employers and society as a whole, and identifies in which contexts skill recognition has the highest potential to bring benefits. The focus is on three tools that are commonly used to shorten the path to a formal qualification: admission into a programme, reduced programme duration and qualification without a mandatory programme. For each of these tools, thi ... Show more
Authors: Kis, Viktoria; Windisch, Hendrickje Catriona
Published: Paris, France, OECD, 2018
Resource type: Report, paper or authored book
Physical description: 78 p.
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