Costs and funding of continuing vocational training in enterprises in Europe

The second survey of continuing vocational training (CVTS2) was launched by the European Commission and follows on from the first survey conducted in 1994 of the Member States of the European Union. The second survey was conducted in 2000 and 2001 in all the Member States, Norway and nine candidate countries (Bulgaria, Czech Republic, Estonia, Hungary, Latvia, Lithuania, the Pomorskie region of Poland, Romania and Slovenia). Enterprises participating in the survey provided comparable statistical data on the forms, content and extent of continuing vocational training at work, the supply of, and demand for, vocational knowledge and skills, inhouse training resources and the use of external training providers, and key data for analysing the costs of continuing training. The funding structure of CVT courses provides key evidence of enterprise commitment to investment in the continuing training of their staff as well as the significance of CVT measures on the demand side of the labour market. This publication presents survey outcomes on the costs and funding of CVT courses in 21 European countries. The data for Greece, France, Italy and the UK were not available at the time of publication. The survey results revealed: (a) highest expenditure per staff member on CVT in large enterprises and in the ‘financial intermediation’ sector; (b) European enterprises invested between 0.5% and 3.0% of labour costs on CVT; (c) payments to external training providers made up the largest share of the direct costs of CVT courses; and (d) little promotion of CVT courses in enterprises through public training funds or subsidies.

Five ‘Statistics in focus’ have been published containing results of CVTS2. These are indexed from TD/TNC 71.576 to TD/TNC 71.580. Show less