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Quality assurance : supporting high quality VET- an EU perspective

Sean Feerick

Director, EQAVET Secretariat

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• Young people, particularly from vulnerable or disadvantaged groups, dropping out of education or work; rising long-term unemployment and inactivity

• Difficult school-to-work transitions

• High unemployment rates, growing skills and geographical mismatches

Context

Between 2008 to 2012: The youth unemployment rate in the EU is more than

twice as high as the rate for adults (22.7% in 2012). Long-term unemployment is much higher for young

people (the rate went up by 3.7% points (to 7.3 % of the young labour force) compared with a 1.8 point increase for adults (to 4.3 %).

The chances for a young unemployed person of finding a job are low (only 29.7 % of those aged 15-24 and unemployed in 2010 found a job in 2011, a fall of almost 10 % in these years).

Youth unemployment in the EU

1-quarter of Europeans lack the digital skills needed to effectively use ICT

25% of those surveyed were found to lack basic ICT skills, while one in five of those in ES,IT, CY, PL, SK have no computer experience

Notes a generation gap in terms of skills, which indicates that LLL policies should be adopted to sustain skills over time

University degree in the same subject is no guarantee of the same level of skills in different countries

Literacy scores from recent upper secondary-school graduates in the NL and FL were found to be close to or better than those of higher education graduates in IE, ES, IT, CY, UK

Adult Skills in the EU

- PIAAC report

The Guarantee seeks to ensure that MS offer all young people up to age 25 a quality job, continued education, an apprenticeship or a traineeship within 4 months of leaving formal education or becoming unemployed.

One of the most crucial and urgent structural reforms for MS to address youth unemployment and to improve school to work transitions.

European Alliance for Apprenticeships and Quality Framework for Traineeships to facilitate transition from education-to-work: in countries where a higher proportion of students undertake quality traineeships or work placements as part of IVET or with well-established apprenticeship systems have low youth unemployment

Policy responses at EU level- EU 2020 Investing in youth: the Youth Guarantee & EU

Alliance for Apprenticeships

- Contains 101 actions, in 7 pillars

- To help to reboot the EU economy

- To enable Europe's citizens

and businesses to

get the most out

of digital technologies

Digital agenda

Attractive and inclusive VET High quality initial VET Work based learning in all initial VET Accessible and career oriented continuing VET Improved permeability European education and training area Increased mobility Better guidance and counselling service

Rethinking Education

Challenges: Teachers digital skills; Training institutions

infrastructures – poor IT development; Digital content

elaborated mostly outside Europe

Opportunities: Broadening access to education; Lower

costs for students and institutions; Fuel innovation

Erasmus+ and Horizon 2020:

Financial support for elaboration of tools, partnerships, teachers

Opening up Education and Erasmus+

The Copenhagen process, 2002

EU transparency tools

EQF Europass

EQAVET ECVET

Objectives

To increase transparency and mobility

To promote permeability in a LLL perspective

To make VET more attractive

Support developing of high quality VET which is responsive to social

and economic needs

The Bruges Communiqué, follow up Copenhagen

process

Ensure the sustainability

and excellence of VET (high quality IVET

and accessible and career

oriented CVET)

Focus on LO, supporting the

validation of non-formal /informal learning

Focus on quality of

teachers and trainers and

other categories of

VET personnel

EU area for VET

Recommendation of the European Parliament and of the Council on the establishment of a European Quality Assurance Reference Framework for Vocational Education and Training- June 2009

EQAVET

Inclusion and limited dropout Focus groups at risk Quality work based learning Well-prepared teachers Effective transitions to work and to higher education Qualifications reflecting national and local needs Flexible delivery for adults Recognition of prior learning Adequate core academic skills Data on labour market outcomes Engaged social partners and companies – ensure relevance

of VET

The role of QA in VET

& the EQAVET Recommendation

Designed to promote better VET A reference instrument to help

authorities of MS promote and monitor the improvement of their VET systems

Uses QA as a systematic approach to modernising education systems, especially by improving the effectiveness of training.

MS are invited to develop /use this instrument on a voluntary basis.

The main users are national/regional authorities, VET providers, public /private bodies responsible for ensuring and improving the quality of VET

It complements the work of EQF and ECVET

EQAVET Framework

The Reference Framework Deepening a culture of QA building

and improving QA approaches

Key elements

PLANNING: set up clear, appropriate and measurable goals and objectivesIMPLEMENTATION: establish procedures to ensure the achievement of goals and objectivesASSESMENT and EVALUATION: design mechanisms for the evaluation of achievements by collecting and processing data to assessFEEDBACK and PROCEDURES for CHANGE: develop operations in order to achieve the targeted after discussion with key stakeholders

Quality indicators

1. Relevance of quality assurance systems for VET providers

2. Investment in training of teachers and trainers

3. Participation rate in VET programmes4. Completion rate in VET programmes5. Placement rate in VET programmes6. Utilisation of acquired skills at the

workplace7. Unemployment rate8. Prevalence of vulnerable groups9. Mechanisms to identify training needs

in the labour market10.Schemes used to promote better

access to VET

Indicative descriptors at system and provider level, for each phase of the quality cycle

Information on the indicative descriptors can be found at the EQAVET online tool (e.g. http://www.eqavet.eu/qa/tns/building-your-system/planning/descriptors-list.aspx)

EQAVET indicative descriptors, deepening a culture of QA

The 4 phases of the Quality Cycle; building & monitoring your QA

approach

Building your QA approach – the EQAVET indicative descriptors & the

building blocks

Monitoring your QA approach –EQAVET indicators;

evaluation & review

www.eqavet.eu