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Publications
This catalogue contains all ETF publications available to download, including studies on our partner countries, corporate publications and statutory documents. All publications are free of charge.
In order to be constructive and efficient, communication and dialogue need to be based on a common understanding of ideas, topics and terms, in paricular when dealing with technical issues. For this reason ETF experts have elaborated a Turkish/English/French/German glossary of vocational education, training (VET) and labour market terms. The project has been implemented by the ETF's National Observatory hosted by ISKUR.
This is a summary translated into Russian of the publication issued by Cereq "Le Partenariat Social dans la Formation Professionnelle Initiale en France". The full version of the publication is available on the ETF Website.
The purpose of this study is to examine human resources development and the functioning of the labour market in Syria and analyse weaknesses and problems that restrict employment and limit the growth potential of human resources. Within the framework of the preparation of this report, another more academic paper titled Returns to education and the transition from school to work in Syria' was prepared and presented at the Economic Research Forum in Arab Countries, Iran and Turkey in December 2005. This paper is also available from the ETF publication catalogue.
The study outlines key labour market issues in the Middle East and North Africa and analyses the implications for employment policy and training systems and the role of the European Union and other donors in supporting reforms in the sector. The study focuses on five pilot countries: Egypt, Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia.
This Compendium of “good practice” in the development of teachers and trainers in vocational education and training has been prepared for the South Eastern Europe Regional Seminar in Tirana organised by ETF in January 2005. All sixteen cases in the Compendium come from the South Eastern European (SEE) countries and have been written by participants of three previous ETF Seminars for the region held in Sofia (March 2002), Dubrovnik (March 2003) and Skopje (December 2003). This is the second volume of case studies from these Seminars, but this expanded version is the first one that is exclusively built on contributions from the region.
In the ETF Yearbook 2005, the editors Peter Grootings and Søren Nielsen argue that the general assumption that policy instruments will drive the necessary reform in schools is not well supported by empirical evidence. Teaching is not a homogeneous activity that can be driven by a small set of easily accessible policy instruments. Learning is context bound and teaching takes place in the school, which is a highly complex social institution. In spite of powerful forces for change, schools in EU partner countries appear remarkably untouched. Grootings and Nielsen argue that one reason for this might be that change has usually been something done to teachers as opposed to something done with them. Teachers in schools have generally not been able to develop a sense of ownership of change nor have they been really capable or motivated to make the reforms work. They support their arguments with pilot project experience. ETF projects have demonstrated the importance of intertwining teacher development with school improvement. They confirm that the work environment of teachers should be seen as a learning opportunity and thus be organised accordingly: schools, teacher training institutions and companies must help to integrate learning into the daily work of staff. If that were the case, teachers own professional experiences will also be seen as a valuable source for innovation and development of education and training. Teachers would then be recognised stakeholders in their role as professional educators. The book includes contributions from Mircea Badescu, Borhène Chakroun, Marie Corman, Peter de Rooij, Muriel Dunbar, Henrik Faudel, Dragana Gligorijevic, György Ispánki, Deirdre Lennan, Irene Anna Liverani, Xavier Matheu de Cortada and Simona Rinaldi.
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 present study focuses on Montenegro.
