Concise, clear and concrete pictures of countries’ vocational education and training systems: this is what the Cedefop Spotlight on VET series offers. Building on individual country Spotlights, this publication brings together the main features and data of VET in the EU, Iceland and Norway.
While countries share goals and challenges, their VET systems are diverse, shaped by socioeconomic contexts and traditions. Information on VET’s main features, its role and status, are a prerequisite to understanding developments and learning from another country.
This compilation addresses all those who need a quick overview of essential features of VET in Europe. Clarifying the place of VET in countries’ overall education and training systems, it presents main accession and progression routes for learners; types and levels of qualifications they lead to; types of programmes, delivery modes, work-based learning ratio and duration. The approach and terminology used for the systems charts and descriptions aim for a balance between national and international readers’ understanding and for some comparisons between systems.
This publication is a useful starting point for work by policy makers, social partners, experts and researchers. It provides orientation to a range of other actors involved in VET-related activities: VET providers, teachers and trainers; guidance, qualifications and validation staff; and other readers who want to familiarise themselves with VET systems across and beyond Europe.
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Spotlight on VET – 2018 compilation
Vocational education and training system in Austria
Vocational education and training system in Belgium (BE-DE)
Vocational education and training system in Belgium (BE-FL)
Vocational education and training system in Belgium (BE-FR)
Vocational education and training system in Bulgaria
Vocational education and training system in Croatia
Vocational education and training system in Cyprus
Vocational education and training system in the Czech Republic
Vocational education and training system in Denmark
Vocational education and training system in Estonia
Vocational education and training system in Germany
Vocational education and training system in Greece
Vocational education and training system in Finland
Vocational education and training system in France
Vocational education and training system in Hungary
Vocational education and training system in Iceland
Vocational education and training system in Ireland
Vocational education and training system in Italy
Vocational education and training system in Latvia
Vocational education and training system in Lithuania
Vocational education and training system in Luxembourg
Vocational education and training system in Malta
Vocational education and training system in the Netherlands
Vocational education and training system in Norway
Vocational education and training system in Poland
Vocational education and training system in Portugal
Vocational education and training system in Romania
Vocational education and training system in Slovenia
Vocational education and training system in Slovakia
Vocational education and training system in Spain
Vocational education and training system in Sweden
Vocational education and training system in the United Kingdom