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Since the Asia and the Pacific Regional Convention was adopted in 1983, the regional committee has been meeting biannually to examine the progress made and obstacles encountered by signatories in the application of the Regional Convention. This publication reports the results of the ninth session of the committee meeting which was held in Seoul in May 2007. The publication provides 10 country reports along with the committee's discussion on the revision of the Convention and the results of the Seminar on Regional Harmonization, which was held back-to-back with the ninth session.

The report contains the following sections: Introduction; Opening ceremony; Election of office bearers and presentation of country reports; Report from the Working Group on Revision of the Asia-Pacific Regional Convention; Seminar on Regional Harmonization: Establishing a Common Higher Education Area; Closing ceremony; Annexes: General information; Programme; List of participants. The CD-ROM contains the 10 country reports for: Australia, China, Holy See [Vatican City], India, Republic of Korea, Lao PDR [Laos], Mongolia, Nepal, Sri Lanka, and the Philippines. Also included are the highlights of the meeting of the Working Group on Revision of the Regional Convention: Bologna Process, Lisbon Recognition Convention 1997 and International Cooperation; Brisbane Communique; revision of the Arusha Convention for African States; UNESCO-OECD Guidelines and UNESCO Portal of Higher Education Institutes; and the UNESCO-APQN [Asia-Pacific Quality Network] Toolkit: Regulating Quality Assurance in Cross-border Education. Show less

The theme of this conference, held jointly in Helsinki (19-21 August) and St Petersburg (22-23 August) was 'Internationalisation of [vocational education and training] VET'. The St Petersburg presentations are as follows: [Opening of the conference]: International conference 'internationalisation of vocational education and training', 22-23.08.2014, St. Petersburg / Olga Oleynikova; The transformative power of TVET / Borhene Chakroun; Recognition and validation of informal learning in Finnish vocational adult education / [Markku] Kantonen; Skills development using international experience: Estonian case / Kulli All; Enhanced VET attractiveness through improved public policies performance / Madlen Serban; 'Integration processes and international cooperation in VET': Copenhagen process and its implementation / Raimo Sivonen; Key competencies of Finnish VET teachers / Pia Tolonen; ECVET: a European tool for transnational mobilities / Risto Virkkunen; Validation and recognition of prior learning: how to get it right! / Lesley Wemyss; Modernisation of VET in the Russian Federation in the context of internationalisation / Natalya Zolotareva. In addition, a panel discussion, 'Increasing the attractiveness of vocational education and training', was held involving participants from Australia, the UK, Canada, Finland and Belarus. Round tables held were: Integration processes and international cooperation in VET; Organization of work based learning; Comparability and compatibility of VET curricula and qualifications; Competences of VET teachers. Show less

This [European Monitoring Centre on Change] EMCC Company Network Seminar, [entitled 'The role of competence and qualification development in fostering workforce mobility'] was organised jointly by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions and the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop). This seminar report summarises the seminar conclusions and highlights how individuals, companies and policymakers can act to develop schemes that simultaneously promote workers' mobility and develop their skills. The contents are: Introduction - Joint seminar on mobility; European Year of Workers' Mobility; Overview of the seminar; Geographical mobility within the EU - Public attitudes to labour mobility in an enlarged Europe; Companies and geographical mobility; Perceptions among European citizens; Expected barriers when moving to another Member State; Policy initiatives to facilitate greater mobility; Job mobility and company policies - Patterns of mobility; Benefits of changing jobs; Flexicurity at company level; Competence development - different approaches; Competence development and the economic cycle; Role of companies; Transferability of competences and qualifications; The European Qualification Framework (EQF); Sectoral initiatives; Conclusions; References; Annex: Speakers at the seminar.

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This report provides a general overview of Iceland's participation in European Union policy work in education and training until 2010. The Ministry of Education, Science and Culture is currently focusing on five areas in connection with its participation in this work in cooperation with other European countries. These areas are: (1) modernisation of higher education; (2) teachers and trainers; (3) increasing participation in maths, science and technology; (4) ICT in education; and (5) recognition of learning outcomes. The report begins with a short overview of European Union policy work on education and training and includes information about the participation of Icelandic representatives in this work in recent years. The next five chapters then document the conclusions of the discussion groups that deliberated on these five areas and of the conference 'Education and training 2010: the development of education policy in Iceland in the context of Europe', held in Reykjavik in October 2006. Show less

The special focus of the 5th International VET Conference Crossing Boundaries held on 25-26 May 2023 at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas, Lithuania, is on 'vocational education and training transformations for a digital, sustainable and socially fair future'. Keynote speeches: Skill formation in Central and Eastern Europe: a search for patterns and directions of development / Vidmantas Tutlys, Jonathan Winterton, Jorg Markowitsch; Changes in vocational education and training in Lithuania: employers' perspectives / Vaidotas Levickis; Vocational education and training in the conditions of post-war reconstruction of Ukraine: challenges and strategic directions / Sergiy Melnyk. Papers were presented with respect to three thematic strands: (1) systems and policy of VET and lifelong learning; (2) educational institutions and institutional settings in the VET and skill formation; and (3) VET actors and stakeholders. The topics of conference papers are very diverse and provide insights on VET development in the conditions of digitalization, changing roles of VET providers, teachers and learners, sustainability of VET provision, challenges of VET provision in developing economies, empowering effects of VET, changing roles and work of VET teaching staff and many other issues.

Papers are as follows: Evaluation of resources for teaching of technical and vocational education and training courses in technical colleges in Osun State, Nigeria / Tajudeen Adewumi Adebisi; The attractiveness of the industrial technology program among newly arrived students in Sweden / Hamid Asghari; AI pioneers: developing a community of practice for artificial intelligence (AI) and vocational education and training / Graham Attwell, Ludger Deitmer and George Bekiaridis; Investment in human capital: company expenditures on continuing vocational training in times of technological change in Germany / Myriam Baum and Lisa Fournier; Open content development as a challenge and an opportunity (Hungarian case) / Andras Benedek and David Sik; Similarities and differences in the evolution of VET in Hungary and Poland 1989-2022 / Magdolna Benke and Tomasz Rachwal; Promoting VET by implementing a 'dual system' in Ukraine / Vera Braun and Oksana Melnyk; Promoting citizenship competence in Italian vocational education and training through assessment / Flavio Brescianini; Challenges and helpful conditions for vocational teachers in Europe: findings from the 'VETteach' project / Birger Brevik, Franz Kaiser and Melanie Hoppe; A bootcamp as an experiential learning activity for nurturing creative talent: a Hong Kong case study / Kara Chan, Maggie Fung, Justin Lau and Jasmine Zhang; Competence retention for non-routine-situations in digital working environments (condition): studies based on the professions of chemical technician and pharmaceutical technician / Stephanie Conein; The COVID-19 pandemic impacts on apprentices' occupational health in Western Switzerland: between invisibilisation of their status and ordinary suffering / Gilles Descloux, Mathilde Romanens, Nadia Lamamra and Barbara Duc.

Young apprentices' critical perspectives on the curriculum of Portuguese apprenticeship courses / Alexandra Doroftei; On the planned apprenticeship guarantee for Germany: an attempt to reduce the risk of social exclusion during the transition from school to VET? / Marcus Eckelt; Swiss VET: a successful model and its sacrifices on the balance of power between company- and school-based VET in the political governance of the transition to upper-secondary level in Switzerland / Raffaella Simona Esposito; Sitting on the fence: adapt or import?: a study on training activities of foreign multinationals in Germany / Lena Finken and Matthias Pilz; Dual apprenticeship and continuous vocational training of German family businesses in Central and Eastern Europe: commitment, motives and trends / Michael Gessler and Susanne Peters; Arts-based educational research in action in vocational education / Daniel Gregson; If it was going to work it would have worked by now / Margaret Gregson; Online and soft skills training in vocational education in international context: reflections about the state-of-the-art and future potential on the example of China / Karin Hamann, Anne Rickert and Shun Yang; From work force immigration to inclusion: a study of vocational education and training development in relation to society changes and immigration in a historical perspective / Lazaro Moreno Herrera, Asa Broberg and Ali Osman; The apprentice perspective: a blind spot in the governance of VET systems?: a German-Danish-Swiss comparison / Ute Hippach-Schneider and Janine Grobe-Rath; How an apprenticeship can direct learners beyond the local context of teaching and learning: transferable skills in Germany's dual system of vocational education / Gabriela Hohns; 'Making a virtue of necessity': substitution potentials in the face of the shortage of skilled workers: ways to a sustainable future using the example of the German vocational training system / Sebastian Ixmeier, Dieter Muenk and Nina Muscati.

Building bridges between higher education, vocational learning and employment: fostering a sustainable ecosystem through practically based higher education (HE) models / Natasha Kersh, Andrea Laczik and Katherine Emms; Using smartphones for learning: a case study on the impact of digitalization on apprenticeship in the informal sector in Ghana / Lena Krichewsky-Wegener and Lukas Bruck; Women in information and communication technology: creating opportunities for career changes towards IT and IT-mixed professions / Ida Kristina Kuhn, Valerie Ambrosi and Peter Kaune; Comparing dualised forms of initial VET across countries: insights from the IEM survey / Isabelle Le Mouillour, Daniel Neff and Paula Klein; Quality management in vocational education and training: a reflection on educational governance in Austria, Germany and Spain / Junmin Li, Ekaterina Schluter, Hannes Hautz, Julian Bell and Fernando Marhuenda; Vocational students at risk of social exclusion in Estonia: social ecology approach / Krista Loogma, Meril Umarik, Inna Bentsalo and Terje Valjataga; A narrative understanding of boundary crossing by vocational teachers in their career path / Maret Aasa and Krista Loogma; Vocational education and training offered in second chance schools in Spain: possibilities and limits from an organizational analysis / Fernando Marhuenda; Gentle guidance does it?: are public employment service recommendations affecting adjustment of IVET capacities in Croatia? / Teo Matkovic; Social partners' conceptions of their role in school-based initial vocational training of specialists / Rita Miciuliene; Defining green occupational groups in the Spanish vocational education and training system: an emerging approach / Monica Moso-Diez, Juan P. Gamboa, Mikel Albizu-Echevarria and Antonio Mondaca-Soto; Lecturer industrial attachment for TVET teachers in Kenya: access, challenges, opportunities / Moses Njenga; Innovation in vocational training: an action research project / Chiara Ostuni; Instructional technologies and training models in Industry 4.0: an explorative literature review / Marco Perini and Riccardo Sartori; Motivation in international VET cooperation: VET providers and their engagement in transfer / Susanne Peters and Lisa Meyne; VET, patience and the wealth of nations / Susanne Peters and Christine Siemer.

Study success in course of TVET: results of a mixed-methods study / Joana Pletscher; Italian higher technical education: reactive or proactive institution in the skill ecosystem? / Andrea Potestio, Francesco Magni and Paolo Bertuletti; Co-creation and indirect approach as a methodology to improve student engagement in initial and continuing VET / Elena Quintana-Murci, Francesca Salva-Mut, Carme Pinya Medina, Carlos Vecina Merchante, Caterina Thomas-Vanrell, Carme Rossello-Rossello and Julia Vilasis-Pamos; Framing an environment and sustainability lens on vocational education and training (VET): a laminated system analysis / Presha Ramsarup, Heila Lotz-Sisitka and Simon McGrath; A sector qualification framework (SQF) level 2-7 for industrial shoe production / Andreas Saniter and Vivian Harberts; Hydrogen as a future topic in German VET?: research design and initial findings from the research project H2PRO / Maximilian Schneider; Modelling skills mismatch evolution in the European Union / Mantas Sekmokas, Ashish Rajendra Sai, Maria Friedel and Naomi Tilon; Recognizing foreign acquired VET qualifications: potential to empower and challenge skill formation ecosystems / Jehona Serhati and Linda Wanklin; The impact of collaboration among vocational teachers implementing teaching practices during a state of emergency / Meidi Sirk; Emotional intelligence and scholastic achievement in VET: a study among apprentices in healthcare and social care / Laure Tremonte-Freydefont, Marina Fiori and Matilde Wenger; Vocational aspects of empowering at-risk VET students in the Baltic countries and Norway for employment and lifelong learning / Vidmantas Tutlys, Lina Kaminskiene, Tarja Tikkanen; Marieke Gerdien-Bruin, Biruta Sloka and Meril Umarik; Lehrkunstdidaktik and its potential for vocational didactics / Ruhi Tyson; Outside-in: public-private partnerships upgrading the institutional equilibirum in Morocco, the Netherlands and Serbia / Marc Van der Meer, Siria Taurelli and Aram Avagyan; Beyond the classroom: exploring teacher agency in making and breaking educational reforms / Linda Wanklin; What Swiss in-company trainers want: needs, interests, and availability for continuing education / Matilde Wenger and Nadia Lamamra.

Excerpts from conference website and program. Individual papers are available in VOCEDplus.

'Lehrkunstdidaktik and its potential for vocational didactics' by Ruhi Tyson is not included in the proceedings table of contents but can be found at pp. 458-462. Show less