“The changing nature and role of vocational education and training in Europe. Volume 7” published
The aim of the paper “The changing nature and role of vocational education and training in Europe. Volume 7: VET from a lifelong learning perspective: continuing VET concepts, providers and participants in Europe 1995-2015” was to provide an overview of how CVET (continous vocational education and training) is conceptualised in various international level policy documents and how it is referred to across countries.
It discusses national conceptions of CVET, the providers, participation by IVET graduates in non-formal education and training (NFE), and participation of adults in VET education institutions in European Union Member States, Iceland and Norway.
The paper describes how the provision of CVET by different types of provider has changed over the past two decades, discussing the main drivers of this change and speculating about possible future trends. One of the main findings is that there are many dominant conceptions of CVET across Europe and the use of this term is not consistent, sometimes not even within countries.
This research paper is one in a series produced as part of the Cedefop project ‘The changing nature and role of VET (2016-18)‘ coordinated by 3s.
The paper can be downloaded here.