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Hod Anyigba; Alexander Preko; William Kwesi Senayah – Higher Education, Skills and Work-based Learning, 2024
Purpose: This study is to examine and develop sector skills strategies and action plans for the textile and apparel (T&A) sector. Design/methodology/approach: The paper used a participatory action qualitative method anchored on the Skills for Trade and Economic Diversification (STED) framework, utilising the workshop-based approach with 24 key…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Clothing, Labor Supply, Job Skills
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
Pablo E. Pinto; Daniela Henriquez-Encamilla – International Journal of Training and Development, 2024
Active labour policies are globally adopted to tackle unemployment and enhance job matching. In Chile, a predominantly supply-focused approach involves training workers, especially in vulnerable groups, as it is believed that investing in human capital will align job demand and available skills. This subnational Chilean case study in the Coquimbo…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employment Potential, Stakeholders, Job Training
Suleman, Fátima; Videira, Pedro; Rodrigues Araújo, Emília – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2023
This research examines regional skill problems and the strategies adopted to reduce skill shortages by a set of employers (n = 16). The data collected in 2019 in a northern region in Portugal indicate considerable and persistent shortages of engineering and IT graduates and non-graduates for operational jobs. The employers implement anticipative…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Vocational Education, Labor Needs
Katarina Švab; Polona Vilar; Tjaša Jug – Education for Information, 2023
Intellectual property includes not only copyright but also industrial property (IP), which consists of inventions (patents), trademarks, industrial designs and models, and designations of origin. In order to identify the importance of these competencies of non-lawyers, e.g. engineers, managers, in companies, an online survey was conducted in some…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Labor Market, Labor Needs, Intellectual Property
Stelina Chatzichristou; Vlasis Korovilos; Jasper van Loo – UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2025
This publication is the fourth in a series of practical Cedefop skills anticipation guides for policymakers, analysts, and expert professionals. The three previous guides presented a rich mosaic of conventional and emerging methods for identifying technological change and its impact on skills. They assessed the merits and challenges of using…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Sustainability, Labor Market, Job Skills
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2022
This study examines the role of microcredentials in supporting learning for employment. The study collected information through an online survey among mostly European VET providers, national authorities, employee and employer organisations, in-depth country case studies and interviews, as well as Cedefop's ReferNet network. While the topic has…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Microcredentials, Vocational Education, Career Readiness
Shlomo Mizrahi; Dana Natan Krup – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
One of the main challenges in modern labour markets is to improve the mobility and employability of workers among workplaces, jobs and roles. This paper explores the factors that might influence people's beliefs about and attitudes towards the mechanisms for improving employability through training. We develop a research model and test it in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Employee Attitudes, COVID-19, Pandemics
Weinan Wang; Qiao Wu – Science Insights Education Frontiers, 2024
This article is a case study of students' labor competence in two different educational tracks from the Guangxi University of Foreign Languages. According to research findings, there was no significant difference in the overall level of labor competence between ordinary undergraduates and vocational students, and there were disparities in labor…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Undergraduate Students, Vocational Education
Wotschack, Philip – International Journal of Training and Development, 2020
This article investigates the role of 'voice', technology, innovation (of products, services, or processes) and labor shortages in the training participation of low skilled workers in German companies. By building on the key findings of previous research, hypotheses on drivers of training participation are derived from filter theory and the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Training, Job Skills, Unskilled Workers
Wouter Sanderse – Journal of Vocational Education and Training, 2024
The notion of "Bildung" has been booming in several European countries for almost twenty years now, but it has attracted little attention in vocational education. One reason for this is that "Bildung," the process of becoming human as a goal in itself, is understood in opposition to vocational education, which task would be to…
Descriptors: Vocational Education, Educational Philosophy, Labor Market, Job Training
Sergii Khrapatyi; Tetiana Melnychuk; Yuliia Krasilova; Julia Udovenko; Anastasiia Holotenko – Research in Post-Compulsory Education, 2024
This article aims to analyse the world experience of retraining war veterans in order to restore the economy and consider possible ways of implementing the acquired knowledge and practices in the context of Ukraine. A study was conducted to identify the basic needs and challenges faced by veterans and examine the key aspects of the challenges that…
Descriptors: War, Veterans, Retraining, Foreign Countries
Andersson, Per; Muhrman, Karolina – International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, 2022
Context: This study is about vocational education and training for adults within municipal adult education (MAE). Sweden has a long tradition of adult education, and has one of the world's highest proportions of participants in adult education. The Swedish education system is characterised by extensive marketisation with many private actors,…
Descriptors: Marketing, Vocational Education, Adult Education, Municipalities
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2023
This study examines the emerging relationship between microcredentials and qualification systems. Information gathered through an online survey among European VET providers, national authorities, employee and employer organisations was complemented by in-depth country case studies and interviews with Cedefop's ReferNet network. Questions of…
Descriptors: Credentials, Labor Market, Work Experience, Correlation
European Training Foundation, 2021
The automotive sector is an important driver of growth in the Turkish economy. This note presents the main findings of the European Training Foundation (ETF) study which focuses on the future of skills that will be needed in the automotive sector in Turkey. It is part of a wider investigation in ETF partner countries on how global trends are…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Job Skills, Job Training, Industry