Integrating a flexible, transfer oriented experiment into regular Dutch VET, has it worked?

The 'Flexibility, transferability and mobility as targets of vocational education and training' (COST Action A11) program was initiated in 1971 by the European Commission (reports associated with this program are indexed at TD/TNC 73.596 and TD/TNC 67.267). Within this framework are five working groups. This paper is one of a selection of papers from Working Group 5: Evaluation and Assessment that focus on the evaluation of vocational education and training (VET). Its focus is on KMBO, an experiment in Dutch VET that began in the late 1970s and was integrated into mainstream VET in the early 1990s. It looks at the reasons behind this initiative, why it was integrated into mainstream VET and its effects. This is done using two perspectives: the first perspective looks at the feasibility, transferability and mobility of KMBO; and the second perspective, a policy perspective, looks at why KMBO was initiated in the first place, whether its goals were achieved, why it was integrated, what the purposes of Dutch policy makers were for this operation, and whether they were achieved. The study indicates that KMBO and its integration into the VET system have flexibilised the Dutch VET system to enable it to provide learning pathways for the wide variety of students that enter the system.

The monograph from which this paper is taken is indexed at TD/TNC 74.339; individual papers are indexed from TD/TNC 80.233 to TD/TNC 80.239. Show less