Guides and toolkits

This report provides a general overview of the political objectives for the reform of technical and vocational education and training in both the Mediterranean region and the European Union, with a focus on quality and quality assurance as a means to steer the process of modernisation of education and training systems. The achievements in EU member states and the current state of reform in the Mediterranean countries are described, and common challenges and potential synergies for actions in TVET – by the Mediterranean countries themselves and between the Mediterranean region and the European Union – are examined.

MEP Anna Záborská: Education is fundamental for gender equality Teaching the European experience to Syrian Entrepreneurs Thirteen years on, the ETF and Tempus part ways Kosovo needs a road map for reform Intercultural education and training

This background paper aims to present an overview of information and knowledge available about the wider context in which the transition from school to work occurs in Egypt and hence to provide the primary field research on school-to-work transition undertaken simultaneously by the Strategic Marketing with the necessary framework for analysis of empirical results obtained through the survey. But it is also meant to serve as an input for national public debate on the subject, to be conducted within a wider international project of European Training Foundation.

This report examines programmes for youth that combine learning in classrooms with participation in work in ten Mediterranean countries: Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, the Occupied Palestinian Territory, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. It is one element, together with the development of a network of policymakers and experts from the ten participating countries, a study visit to the Netherlands and a peer review visit to Turkey, of an ETF project on work-based learning for youth in the Mediterranean region. In turn this is part of a wider project, taking place over several years, on education and training for employment in the region. One of the key objectives of the project is to help the countries of the region learn from one another's experiences as a way of improving both policy and practice. The report is based on ten national reports that used a common analytical framework, on field visits to four of the countries, on a study visit to the Netherlands, and on meetings of national experts and policy makers. Its analytical framework focuses both on ways in which institutional and systemic factors influence the scale character of work-based learning programmes, and on the impact of incentives and social capital (networks, trust, cooperation). It examines a wide range of programmes: some that are called apprenticeships, and many that have other titles, but which share some of the same characteristics.

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