...Marco Guerrazzi Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to take into consideration the propensity to offer vocational training of a large sample of Italian private firms by retrieving cross-sectional data from INDACO (2009). Design/methodology/approach – Estimating a probit model, the author...

...Ann Valentin Kvist Purpose This paper aims to assess the effect of vocational training on employability for immigrant groups. Design/methodology/approach Cognitive test results were computed as factor scores on broad ability variables, and group means were calculated. The effects of cognitive...

... for the experts involved in defining the minimum requirements for the vocational training and qualification of welding professional was to achieve a design that would be accepted by all European countries. The work started in 1987 with the design of the guideline for welding engineers, which was published in 1992...

... better‐attuned HR policies, the following two research questions were investigated: © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2010 Continuing professional development Teachers Vocational training The Netherlands Competence based training Over the last 15 years, secondary schools...

...Fredrick Nafukho; Severina P. Nkirina Purpose This paper seeks to discuss the challenges faced when trying to integrate entrepreneurship education in the training system, with a particular focus on vocational training. Design/methodology/approach The data were collected through in‐depth...

...‐organisational relations need to be based on equal, mutual and trustful relationships between the education and workplace systems in order to support a sustainable change process. In the introduction we present the political and institutional context for workplace learning and vocational training in Sweden...

... The research involves mainly those concepts of competence that are originated by different social stakeholders and have influence on the processes of initial and continuing vocational training in Lithuania. All different scientific concepts of competence proposed by different scholars and circulating only...

... of vocational training curricula that are built after the novice and expert model (Esser et al., 2005 , p. 3). One can become an expert in any occupation, provided that the working conditions allow for the development of expertise. Expertise and competence research therefore recommend the design...

... also change profession or vocational field. Either way, the vocationally determined structures of work and the related vocational training are of crucial importance. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2008 European legislation Vocational training Qualifications Competences...

... Vocational Training”: 1. The decisions of the European Parliament on innovation, economic, labor market, and occupational politics have wide‐reaching consequences for the development of European educational structures. 2. The veto on harmonization (subsidiarity principle) for the educational...

... or leisure time rather than cohesive vocational training courses. As a consequence, more comprehensive studies were carried through on nurses (Benner, 1984) and on the car mechatronic (Rauner and Spöttl, 2002). These studies focused on requirements for occupations as a whole. Benner for example defines seven...

... by and large been reproduced in the second phase. These observations form the background to the rest of my paper. Europe Qualifications Vocational training New Zealand South Africa A recent CEDEFOP paper concluded that: NQFs vary in terms of how qualifications are registered...

...; and autonomously set objectives. Europe Vocational training Qualifications Education and training International politics Since the beginning of the discussions of the European qualification framework (SEK, 2005) it is obvious at the latest that Europe is focussing at a minimum of two ways...

... Vocational training European directives France Since the Lisbon summit in 2000 and its follow‐up both in the “Education Training 2010” programme and in the working groups attached to the Bruges/Copenhagen process, many stakeholders of vocational training in the member states envisage that important...

... Publishing Limited 2008 Competences Individual development Europe Vocational training Aircraft industry Aerospace industry Experience with the AERONET project and the still relatively new application of its instruments suggests that the establishment of transparency regarding...

... explored by the member states and the commission. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2007 Lifelong learning Qualifications Careers Communication technologies Vocational training The standardisation of skills and knowledge serves different purposes. For employers, certificates...

... Training Vocational training Career development Students Uganda The exosystem refers to one or more settings that do not involve the developing person as an active participant, but in which events occur that affect, or are affected by, what happens in the setting containing the developing...

... of the Central Government's Vocational Education Law and the most current point in time for which statistics on HVE were available. Where data were unavailable for the entire period, the analysis was conducted over a shorter time frame. Economic development China Vocational training China has...

... period. Originality/value No methods for developing university VLL professionals as researchers have previously been piloted or evaluated. The research demonstrates the effectiveness of a training method combining face‐to‐face and distance learning. Vocational training Lifelong learning...

... such units, commonly intended to operate on a fully or partially self‐financing basis. Some VLL professionals had been recruited directly into academic departments (Bilham, 1988). © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2006 Career development Lifelong learning Vocational training Professional...