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Vidal Rodeiro, Carmen; Vitello, Sylvia – Cambridge Assessment, 2020
In 2010, the government announced their latest drive to raise the status of vocational qualifications in secondary education. This overhaul was subsequently enacted based on recommendations made by Alison Wolf in her review of vocational education. As a result, the Department for Education (DfE) introduced four new categories of vocational…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Qualifications, Secondary Education
Cedefop - European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training, 2020
The European qualifications framework (EQF), with its eight levels, serves as a translation grid between qualifications acquired in different European countries. Part of Cedefop's work to make qualifications easier to understand and compare, this study takes a closer look at those acquired through initial VET and assigned to EQF levels 3 and 4 via…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Labor Market, National Standards
UNESCO-UNEVOC International Centre for Technical and Vocational Education and Training, 2019
The country profiles provide concise, reliable and up-to-date information on technical and vocational education and training (TVET) systems worldwide. They are the result of a collaborative process between UNESCO-UNEVOC and the TVET stakeholders in each country. TVET in Nigeria aims to assist the federal and state education authorities in their…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Vocational Education, Educational Policy, Teaching Methods
National Centre for Vocational Education Research (NCVER), 2010
This publication provides a summary of 2009 data relating to students, courses, qualifications, training providers and funding in Australia's publicly funded vocational education and training (VET) system. The Australian VET system provides training across a wide range of subject areas and is delivered through a variety of training institutions…
Descriptors: Community Education, Adult Education, Foreign Countries, Vocational Education
National Centre for Vocational Education Research, Leabrook (Australia). – 1998
The number of school students undertaking vocational education and training (VET) in Australia's publicly funded VET sector has grown rapidly in the last 5 years. It is estimated that in 1998, at least 80,000 secondary school students were also studying within Australia's publicly funded VET sector. The vast majority (88%) of these students are…
Descriptors: Educational Certificates, Enrollment Trends, Foreign Countries, Job Training
Schochet, Peter Z.; Burghardt, John; Glazerman, Steven – 2000
A national study estimated the short-term impacts of Job Corps (JC) on participants' employment and related outcomes during the 30 months after random assignment. Results for the short-term impact analysis were based on a comparison of eligible program participants randomly assigned to a program group (n=9,409) or a control group (n=5,977) that…
Descriptors: Disadvantaged Youth, Educational Certificates, Employment Patterns, Employment Potential