Strive, Adapt, Maintain: Building Resilient Governance Systems
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The ETF, a longstanding partner of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences, is hosting the 'Governing change and changing governance' panel in the context of vocational education and skills reform. Siria Taurelli, who leads the ETF’s governance team will present new ETF research to identify success factors in public-private partnerships supporting skills development in different countries and contexts. Read more here. Governance expert J. Manuel Galvin Arribas will discus the ETF's ongoing work to support vocational education decentralisation in Ukraine, including the ETF’s Green Paper, which the government is using as a blueprint to its historic reform. Read more here.
Good governance in vocational education and training
At the intersection of education, training, social, economic and labour-market policies, vocational education and skills is a complex policy area. There are a multiplicity of private and public sector stakeholders involved - from ministries and national agencies, to employers, unions, VET institutions, teachers and trainers and other non-state partners.
The ETF works with its 29 partner countries to map the different actors, transparency and clarity of their respective roles and responsibilities, and how they coordinate and cooperate - the so-called institutional arrangements.
Siria Taurelli says vocational education and skills reform provides an opening for reviewing governance arrangements. ‘A relevant lesson we have learned, from almost 25 years working with transitioning countries, is that the role of the actors, mandates and mechanisms should adjust to the new policy goals. Otherwise moving from the policy design to the implementation stage can prove difficult.’
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The 2018 Congress of the International Institute of Administrative Sciences website here.
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