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Seminar on Individual learning accounts:
An incentive for financing continuing vocational education
and training
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Overview of the presentation• Policy context• Background information• Purpose of the seminar• Themes covered• Common questions for discussion
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Policy context• Revised Lisbon strategy
– Education and Training 2010– Copenhagen – Maastricht – Helsinki process
• European Employment strategy– Integrated Guidelines for Growth and Jobs 2008-2010
• Framework of actions for the lifelong development of competences and qualifications
• Towards Common Principles of Flexicurity COM(2007)359
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Participation by adults in LLL
Benchmark 2010
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Participation in LLL by age and educational attainment (EU-25),
2006
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Background information• European Learning Account Project• OECD • Ikei – Catalogue of recent lifelong learning
co-financing initiatives• Pilot projects
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Purpose of the seminar• to provide a forum for discussion around the
subject of ILAs• to present innovative and best practice
initiatives, identify keys to success and challenges, and explore the conditions to expand ILAs provision
• ILAs - portable savings accounts used to finance education and training after compulsory education usually encouraged by some kind of public support.
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Who is contributing to ILAs?
ILAs
Individual
Employer
State
Others
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ILAs• Why do we focus on ILAs?• What do we want to achieve?• What are the key issues and challenges to
meet the goals of the schemes?
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Issues and challenges of ILAs• Policy objectives• Target group
– Individuals with low qualification levels– Unemployed and people outside the labour
market – Low income levels– Willing to save for training– Others
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• Types of learning– Vocational– General
• Certification and quality assurance– Providers– Programme
• Career guidance and counselling• Financing
Issues and challenges of ILAs
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• Reimbursement – Direct costs – Indirect costs
• Management system– National– Regional– Local framework
• Responsibility, administration and management of the funds– Self management by the individual via a bank– Independent project organisation– Other arrangements
Issues and challenges of ILAs
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• Empirical work• Evaluations• Perspectives• Further research
– Common conceptual framework for comparison
Issues and challenges of ILAs
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Thank you!Peter Szovics, PhD.Project ManagerCedefop, Europe 123GR-57001, ThessalonikiPostal address:PO Box 22427, GR-55102,ThessalonikiTel: +30 2310 490 097Fax: +30 2310 490 044E-mail: [email protected] sites:http://www.cedefop.europa.eu http://www.trainingvillage.gr
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Formulation of common research questions
• What common methodology (conceptual framework) for evaluation of ILAs schemes would be feasible?– What criteria (e.g. costs and benefits) do we
have to use for selecting success stories?• How to strengthen the role of social
partners in co-financing ILAs?