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Joanne Waugh – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2024
"VET partnerships powering a dynamic workforce" is the theme for the 33rd National Vocational Education and Training (VET) Research Conference 'No Frills.' In keeping with the conference's theme, this discussion paper focuses on Australia's workforce demands and the importance of equipping the workforce with necessary skills through…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Partnerships in Education, Labor Force Development, Labor Demands
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2022
Microcredentials are not new. They have been in use in various countries and education and training sectors; they have played a role, among others, in the certification of IT courses or health workers' professional development. However, only recently have microcredentials gained EU-wide attention in policy debates. Most countries, as yet, have no…
Descriptors: Credentials, Foreign Countries, Labor Force Development, Outcomes of Education
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Elizabeth A. Roumell; Florin D. Salajan – Commission for International Adult Education, 2023
Lifelong Learning (LLL) has become a pliable term in educational discourse running the risk of meaning both everything and nothing, making it necessary to look at how the notion of LLL has been taken up in different contexts, especially within the context of policy development. Because of the inconsistent ways LLL has been peppered throughout…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Lifelong Learning, Adult Education, Educational Policy
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J. F. Caringal-Go; S. C. Carr; D. J. Hodgetts; D. Y. Intraprasert; M. Maleka; I. McWha-Hermann; I. Meyer; K. P. Mohan; M. H. Nguyen; S. Noklang; V. T. Pham; P. Prakongpan; P. Poonpol; J. Potgieter; R. Searle; M. Teng-Calleja – Australian Journal of Career Development, 2024
COVID-19, Artificial Intelligence (AI), and Climate Change, have disrupted work education, rendering sustainability of careers and livelihoods a concern. This paper outlines a collaborative response to that challenge, offering opportunities for sustainable livelihoods in a work education cloud collaboration, Project SLiC (Sustainable Livelihoods…
Descriptors: Career Education, Global Approach, Educational Cooperation, Career Development
Trimboli, Daniella – National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2023
Skilling Australia's current and future workforce is the theme for the 32nd National Vocational Education and Training (VET) Research Conference 'No Frills.' In keeping with the conference's theme, this discussion paper explores the resilience of the Australian VET sector and how it can continue to foster adaptability in the face of ongoing change.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Labor Force Development, Resilience (Psychology)
Ewart Keep – Centre on Skills, Knowledge and Organisational Performance (SKOPE), 2025
This paper represents the latest in a line of papers and think pieces that the author has prepared on this topic -- for the UK government, the UK Skills and Productivity Board, and the Scottish Government and Scottish Funding Council -- since 2014. It seeks to explain why trying to bring skills supply into closer alignment with demand for skills…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Skill Development, Supply and Demand, Employer Attitudes
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Rico-Gómez, María Luisa – History of Education, 2021
This article aims to portray industrial workers' vocational training during Primo de Rivera's dictatorship in Spain (1923-1930), based on the Industrial Training Act of 1924 and the Vocational Training Act of 1928. The programme was devised to meet the modernising expectations of a conventional society. The grounds for government interventionism…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Labor Force Development, Educational History
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Todd Denham; Peter Fairbrother – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2025
Vocational education has a crucial role in regional labour markets, providing skills to meet local employment demand. In many regional areas of Australia, there has been a transition in employment from manufacturing and agriculture to service industries. The increase in employment has been most evident in the health and community services sector…
Descriptors: Career and Technical Education, Regional Planning, Economic Development, Geographic Regions
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Nassar, Sylvia C.; Al-Qimlass, Aisha; Ozdemir, Nurten Karacan – International Journal for Educational and Vocational Guidance, 2020
Empirical and conceptual literature on career and workforce development increasingly cites the importance of connections between policy, research and practice domains. Yet, few if any models inform such collaborations. In the proposed Tripartite Model of Program Evaluation, the inter-play between these three key stakeholder groups is…
Descriptors: Program Evaluation, Career Counseling, Labor Force Development, Educational Policy
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Luan Shaw – Journal of Education for Teaching: International Research and Pedagogy, 2024
Conservatoires train musicians to high levels of proficiency in performance and other 'principal study' disciplines, but often, teaching is perceived as a second-class profession, and little is known about how music students learn to facilitate music making in others. Yet, conservatoires have a responsibility to contribute to the development of…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Music Teachers, Music Education, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
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Jules, Tavis D.; Arnold, Richard; Donnelley-Power, Caitlin; Jacobs, Holly; Rainey, Madeline – Current Issues in Comparative Education, 2022
This paper uses a Cultural Political Economy (CPE) framework to apply CPE's concept of the "economic imaginary" to the educational policy landscape. We consider the Caribbean Community's (CARICOM) regional education policy space and the focus on Human Resource Development to examine how what we call "educational imaginaries"…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Educational Policy, Geographic Regions, Labor Force Development
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Costley, Carol – Work Based Learning e-Journal International, 2021
There is strong evidence that learning gained in, through and for work, whether it is through employment, voluntary, community, domestic or any other kind of work, helps to equip people with the capabilities that can improve their working lives, their employability and their life skills (Lester and Costley, 2010, Beehives, 2018, WEXHE, 2019).…
Descriptors: Definitions, Work Experience Programs, Higher Education, Student Employment
Education Scotland, 2022
HM Inspectors of Education have published a new report highlighting features of effective community development practice in response to COVID-19. As part of Scottish Government's "Education Recovery: Key Actions and Next Steps," HM Inspectors of Education committed to undertaking national thematic reviews. These thematic inspections…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Community Development, Pandemics, COVID-19
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Tervasmäki, Tuomas; Okkolin, Mari-Anne; Kauppinen, Ilkka – Policy Futures in Education, 2020
The Finnish educational system is well known for its excellent learning results, highly trained teachers and egalitarian values. However, when the political leanings of the government change, its policies are usually altered as well. In this policy report we give an account of the recent changes and current trends in Finnish education policy. We…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Equal Education, Educational Policy, Politics of Education
OECD Publishing, 2021
Children's learning, development and well-being are directly influenced by their daily interactions with other children, adults, their families and the environment. This interactive process is known as "process quality", and leads to a key question -- which policies set the best conditions for children to experience high-quality…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Educational Policy, Educational Quality, Curriculum Development
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