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This edition of the ETF Highlights describes a selection of ETF activities carried out in 2005. Forward looking as always, its contents are loosely grouped around the four themes that will form the backbone of the 2006 Advisory Forum conference ‘Skills for Progress’.

This publication presents a synthesis of the outcomes of VET specialists from four South Eastern European countries reviewing curriculum policy and actual practice across their own region. The resulting conclusions and recommendations echo Francis Fukuyama's challenge to conventional donor wisdom (including the EU) concerning the relationship between local ownership and practice and assumed external 'best practice' (Fukuyama, State Building, 2005).

This report by Mike Coles of the Qualification and Curriculum Authority (QCA) in the UK reviews the most recent international experiences with developing National Qualification Frameworks. His review shows how pervasive the issue has become all over the world. Many countries have realised that they need to do more than just work on the updating of standards of individual programmes or occupational profiles. Only rarely have National Qualification Frameworks been able to realise their potential and the reasons for this situation are many.

This paper has been compiled by the European Task Force for the Reconstruction of Kosovo. It provides an assessment of the key issues for education and training in Kosovo as a post-war rebuilding effort gets underway; and identifies a number of priorities for the education and training sector to be addressed in the short term, with pointers as to medium and long term requirements. Recommendations are made for a range of measures to be supported in the short-term.

One of the major concerns for policymakers at the beginning of the 21st century is the deteriorating labour market position of young people. This report presents two different approaches that in the course of the past decade have been influential amongst academic researchers and policymakers – the CATEWE conceptual framework and the concept of the transitional labour market (TLM). Both have been used in order to understand better in a comprehensive manner the problems of the youth labour market and, more specifically, the ways in which young people make the transition from school to work.

The European Training Foundation, in agreement with the European Commission, has undertaken a series of in depth reviews of the labour markets in the Western Balkan countries with the aim to contribute to a better understanding of their functioning and identify areas for further work in the fields of employment policy and education and training reform.

The European Training Foundation, in agreement with the European Commission, has undertaken a series of in depth reviews of the labour markets in the Western Balkan countries with the aim to contribute to a better understanding of their functioning and identify areas for further work in the fields of employment policy and education and training reform.

This report presents the state of play of technical and vocational education and training for human resources development and the labour market in Israel. It describes the role and involvement of the various sectors involved and identifies the main issues and challenges that should be addressed to promote human resources development in the country.

This report presents the state of play of the human resources development system in the West Bank and Gaza Strip – focusing in particular on technical and vocational education and training – and outlines the main issues and challenges that should be addressed.

This report belongs to a series of country analyses developed by the ETF at the end of 2005 for all countries in the Mediterranean region, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It contains an overview of the country social and economical context, the analysis of the educational system and a short review of the main initiatives in education and training carried out by international donors in the country.

This report belongs to a series of country analyses developed by the ETF at the end of 2005 for all countries in the Mediterranean region, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It contains an overview of the country social and economical context, the analysis of the educational system and a short review of the main initiatives in education and training carried out by international donors in the country.

This report belongs to a series of country analyses developed by the ETF at the end of 2005 for all countries in the Mediterranean region, Eastern Europe and Central Asia. It contains an overview of the country social and economical context, the analysis of the educational system and a short review of the main initiatives in education and training carried out by international donors in the country.