Meet Sadah - she's ambitious! ‘In 10 years’ time, I will have my own supermarket,’ the Vocational Training Centre graduate, and trainee shop assistant in Jordan says.
Knowledge hubs – platforms that bring together employers, educators and governments – are supporting skills development in Serbia's fast-growing ICT sector. Senior ministers, EU officials, business leaders, educators and ETF experts have been meeting in Belgrade to discuss how the success of the Vojvodina ICT Cluster can be replicated to address skills shortages in other sectors.
Combining work-based learning with vocational education is a win-win. Businesses gain workers equipped with the skills they need, while learners experience a smoother transition into the world of work. Kazakhstan is moving ahead to implement a dual system of education, inspired by best practice in Europe.
Representatives from Montenegro spent two days at the ETF in Torino to exchange good practice with their counterparts from Portugal and Italy on matching supply and demand in the labour market.
School directors, teachers and trainers are our most valuable human resource. Empowering them through continuing skills development is an important part of the ETF's work with partner countries bordering Europe
Modernising vocational education and training (VET) in Azerbaijan is helping to support the country's economic growth. And enhancing public-private partnerships in VET is an important driver of the current reform process.
To improve the employability of its young people and provide businesses with the skills they need, Moldova has been working to enhance the role of workplace learning in its vocational training programmes.
The Ukrainian national parliament, the Verkhovna Rada, has adopted a new framework law on education which brings the system closer to European standards.
The European Alliance for Apprenticeships (EAfA) Award is open companies, apprentices and practitioners promoting the quality, supply and image of apprenticeship and work-based learning.
The European Training Foundation welcomes its new Director Cesare Onestini, who takes over the leadership of the European Union agency from 1 September, 2017.
