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This report examines programmes for youth that combine learning in classrooms with participation in...

This study identifies the main impediments to access of youth to the labour market in Croatia in order to better design policy measures and seek new pathways to sustainable and good jobs on the labour market. It was commissioned by the ETF.

This report looks at the demand for career guidance services in EU neighbouring countries and provides a comparative analysis as well as policy and practical examples of career guidance in Montenegro, the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia, Turkey, Albania, Ukraine, Georgia, Russia, Egypt and Jordan. The issue of demand for career guidance services and provision has been somewhat neglected or underrepresented in similar and previous studies on less developed countries. However, this dimension is of crucial importance, in particular for transition economies and low- and middle-income countries for which whether career guidance should be a policy priority or an issue at all may be questioned. The report therefore analyses factors that influence demand for career guidance in the labour market and the economy, in education systems and in the policy climate. It examines the empirical evidence for career guidance demand and then analyses some of the factors that act as barriers to this demand being realised. The report also describes and analyses existing provision and models of career guidance in EU neighbouring countries, and introduces examples of innovative policies and interesting practices that are being adopted in order to respond to demand. It concludes with an analysis of the ways in which response to demand can be improved by strategic leadership, and discusses opportunities and constraints in responding to demand for services in the future. Finally, the report closes with some key policy messages for EU neighbouring countries and the European Commission.

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 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 Serbia 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 publication summarises main outcomes of the ETF Innovation and Learning Project 'Transition from Education to Work' that was implemented in 2006-2007. The project aims at studying the link between education and work in a dynamic and integrated way. The main innovative element is the development of new conceptual approaches and analytical instruments for the ETF and its partner countries. The objective of the project was to develop two different tools to analyse the transition from education to work in ETF partner countries in order to better understand the links between education, training and labour market integration of young people. First, a conceptual and analytical framework on the topic of transition from education to work was developed and used for national reports on transition from education to work in Egypt, Serbia and Ukraine. This project builds on earlier work within the MEDA-ETE project implemented by the ETF whereby a thematic study on the transition from education to work in Europe was prepared based on discussions on the relevance of European experiences with a network of MEDA experts and policymakers. Secondly, a methodology for a school-leaver survey was developed and implemented in Serbia and Ukraine. This methodology takes as its starting point the ad hoc module on school-to-work transition within the framework of the European Labour Force Survey in 2000 and integrates key specific features of the EU neighbourhood where the ETF works.

This cross-country report – covering ten Mediterranean Partners (Algeria, Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco, Syria, Tunisia, Turkey, and the West Bank and Gaza Strip) – was built upon previous experience with career guidance reviews of the OECD, the European Commission, Cedefop, ETF and the World Bank. The analysis developed further the research methodology by paying particular attention to the socio-economic and cultural context of the Mediterranean region and its impact and limitations on career guidance services. Based on the assumption that career guidance is not only important for individuals, but can contribute also to a number of public-policy goals in education and training, in the labour market and in social cohesion and equity, it further took into account the paradigm shift in career guidance that is emerging in the EU and OECD countries, from ‘choosing a career’ to ‘constructing a career’, from ‘psychological testing’ to ‘tasting the world of work’, and from ‘external expert support’ to ‘career self-management skills’.