Quality assurance is an important tool for building effective vocational education and training (VET) and qualification systems. The topic was the focus of discussions when VET experts from Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine*, Morocco and Tunisia met for a three-day learning programme in Dublin.
Employment opportunities are lagging behind signs of economic growth in countries across the Southern and Eastern Mediterranean region. This comes despite progress in training and education reforms, the latest Torino Process regional policy forum, in Morocco's capital Rabat, has heard.
Stakeholders from general, vocational and higher education are working together to solve common problems, create a shared understanding and strengthen commitment to align standards and curricula to the NQF.
Embracing new technology and communication in education is the focus of the New Technologies in Education conference in Serbia. The three-day event in Belgrade features more than 100 education, technology and policy experts and leaders from more than 20 countries.
‘Vocational education must get out of classrooms and into enterprises,’ says Ercan Demirci, Deputy Undersecretary of Turkey's Ministry of National Education. That's why new laws to improve vocational education and training see apprenticeship compulsory for all upper secondary VET students.
Israel has emerged as a global innovation powerhouse, boasting the highest number of high-tech and ICT startups and largest venture capital industry, per capita, in the world.
Libya's Board for Technical and Vocational Education together with the ETF held a joint conference in the capital Tripoli. The event launched a review of the state the vocational education and training (VET) in the country, Torino Process, and introduced ETF activities that open opportunities for Libyan vocational education sector.
The education ministry will call a multi-stakeholder workshop on 6-7 December in Skopje to pin down key issues which will feature in an upcoming national strategy for entrepreneurial learning.
From Malaysia to Morocco to Mexico, representatives of sixty seven countries, who joined the ETF's conference on qualifications frameworks in Brussels on 6-7 October, confirmed that there exists a global drive to more useful, transparent and comparable qualifications across the world.
