Periodicals

Croatian deputy prime minister Slobodan Uzelac: A good qualifications framework will reduce unemployment Ukraine special: Why employers are the ones pushing for change in Ukrainian VET Armenia demonstrates policy learning in action How to involve social partners in your VET system

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

EU Science Commissioner, Janez Potocnik: Good education key to innovation. Moving calls for mutual benefit: Migration as a tool for development A woman with "manpower": Egyptian Minister of manpower and Emigration Aisha Abdel Hadi ETF bent of fighting corruption: How to address issues of transparency

In this issue: Cover story - MEP Anne Jensen on agencies, eastern neighbours and the ETF The new learning paradigm in Portugal: Novas Oportunidades Dissecting the transition from education to work

In this issue: - Cover story: EU Commissioner Spidla: Fight discrimination with positive action Live and Learn interviews EU Commissioner for employment, social affairs and equal opportunities’. - Skills to counter impoverishment; Mediterranrean countries move ahead with ETF-backed observatories; Timing is of the essence for the Copenhagen project; Policy learning for sustainable VET reform.

In this issue: - Cover story: Education gives growth and employment. Interview with Jan Andersson, MEP and chairman of the Committee of Social Affairs - In focus: ETF director welcomes new mission; the European Year of Equal Opportunities; Entrepreneurship for all: Tunisia shows the way; ETF joins new campaign on EU agencies; Bulgaria and Romania enter the EU - Features: Improving life chances for young women in Turkish orphanages; South East Europe focuses on the dual role of teachers; Women in education and employment in 2010: from a woman's point of view.

In this issue: - Cover story: 50 young men and women from 24 different countries met in Turin on 6–7 March 2006 to attend the first ETF conference entirely devoted to gender issues. - In focus: Advisory Forum 2006: Skills for Progress - the key messages; ETF launches new website. - Features: Norway: never too early to start entrepreneurship learning; Ethnic minorities in the Western Balkans; MEDA-ETE: Promoting regional cooperation among equals; University–enterprise cooperation; Developing key competences for Lifelong Learning.

In this issue: - Cover story: Education and training key to wider democracy. An interview with Elmar Brok, Chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee of the European Parliament. - In focus: The European Qualification Framework; The European Agency for Reconstruction and the ETF; Regional Advisory Forum: The clearing house for VET reform; Barcelona process produces mixed results for VET. - Features: Arab women: making themselves at home in the workplace; It takes more than learning to read to reduce poverty; Skills and work in the informal economy in Albania.

In this issue: - Cover story: Education must be reoriented towards actual demands. An interview with EU Commissioner for External Relations, Ms Benita Ferrero-Waldner, on the role of HRD in EU foreign policy. - In focus: Learning and living democracy; ETF launches new model for partnerships; ETF: Human Resource Development; Preparing for accession; HRD in companies in a lifelong learning perspective; Reviewing progress towards EU accession. - Features: Teachers and trainers: the human factor in VET reforms; Entrepreneurship in education and training; Opening up vocational pathways for school students; The ETF looks to future changes.

In this issue: - Cover story: What is good for us is good for our neighbours. Live and Learn interviews EU Commissioner for Education, Training, Culture and Multilingualism, Ján Figel’. - In focus: Technology-enhanced learning; Europass; Financing human capital; Mainstreaming health and safety into education. - Features: Career guidance policies in acceding and candidate countries; Football for peace; Informal labour market activity in partner countries; National Qualification Frameworks.

In this issue: - Cover story: After the fireworks. New ETF challenges ahead. After the Enlargement, the ETF looks back at the part it has played in the accession preparations since 1995 and evaluates how much of the experience can be used to prepare the next wave of applicants. - In focus: Changing of the guard; Sport is the best school for life; ETF in focus on the European Parliament. - Features: View from the Observatory; Informal Sector or Informal Economy; The Sector Approach.