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

The study outlines key labour market issues in the Middle East and North Africa and analyses the...

This paper presents the outcomes of an ETF project aimed at improving and increasing women's opportunities in employment in Egypt. What are the barriers and opportunities for women's employment? How can the role of women be strengthened in the labour market? In attempting to gain an insight into these issues, the project focused on two sectors with a high potential for generating employment and a need for skilled labour force, namely tourism and ICT sectors.

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 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.

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.

In 2006 the European Training Foundation (ETF) launched a pilot study on the links between migration, education and training systems, and labour markets. This report presents the results of the analysis of the study's findings.