Guides and toolkits

A comprehensive analysis of employment and training reform in the Czech Republic conducted by ETF in order to assist in monitoring the Joint Assessment Papers (JAPs) on employment and training policies.

A comprehensive analysis of employment and training reform in Cyprus conducted by ETF in order to assist in monitoring the Joint Assessment Papers (JAPs) on employment and training policies.

Aimed at supporting cooperation with ETF partner countries in the framework of the European Neighbourhood Policy and EU development policy, this glossary presents the Russian version of key terms used in European vocational education and training (VET) policy. It does not represent an exhaustive inventory of the terminology used by VET specialists; rather it presents terms that are essential for an understanding of current VET policy in Europe. Based on the publication "Terminology of vocational training policy: A multilingual glossary for an enlarged Europe" published in 2004 by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (Cedefop) in collaboration with the ETF, it is intended for researchers and practitioners and more generally for all those involved in VET policy.

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 publication describes what kinds of services the ETF can offer and how and to what extent these can be utilised by individual Member States, groups of Member States and third parties.

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.