At the European Vocational Skills Week 2019, taking place in November in Helsinki, the European Commission will again award examples of excellence in research in vocational education and training (VET). The VET Research Award 2019 aims to reward a VET researcher who has made an outstanding contribution to innovative VET research on diversity and inclusion. …
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On May 2nd and 3rd, the 3rd Crossing Boundaries in VET conference took place in Valencia, Spain. The thematic focus of the conference was: "Pedagogical Concerns and Market Demands". There were 65 papers presented and over 100 people attended the conference. There was considerable participation of Spanish researchers, from the universities of Coruña, Santiago, Tarragona, …
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New issue of IJRVET: Vol. 6, Issue 1 The International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (IJRVET) has published a new issue by now. The first regular edition of 2019 contains the following topics: Karen Struthers and Glenda Strachan: Attracting women into male-dominated trades: Views of young women in Australia Ursula Beicht and Günter Walden: Transition to company-based vocational training in Germany by young people from …
OECD Conference Centre, Paris, 7 October 2019 The joint Cedefop/OECD symposium on apprenticeship brings together policy makers, practitioners and researchers from around the world to consider new research and practice exploring the future of apprenticeship provision. Apprenticeship provision has a long history of enabling the transitions for young people from education into sustained skilled employment. …
"Researchers from 146 countries got their articles published in PFJs". Source Often scientists are unaware of the hidden and predatory practice of the publishers. This predatory practice is threatening the whole scientific system. Here you can find a list of possible predatory publishers. On this list you find publishers offering journals in the TVET field. Often …
IJRVET International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training, the official journal of VETNET, is from now on hosted by the Hamburg University Press, the publishing house of the Hamburg State and University Library, Germany. We use the same web address and system (Open Journal System) but you will experience an improved speed. Here …
It is not usual to gather in the same conference all the most relevant European stakeholders in the knowledge triangle of VET: providers, researchers, institutions and policy-makers at European level. This event set the pace for a new stronger collaboration for promoting innovation and attractiveness of VET. Inclusive Excellence is the distinctive element in the …
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The JVET 2019 conference takes place 28-30 June 2019 in Oxford, UK. Your are invited to hand in a proposal for a paper or symposium. The conference website is here: https://jvet.co.uk/ Deadline for abstracts is 31 January 2019. (communicated by A.M.Bathmaker@bham.ac.uk)
European Conference on Educational Research (ECER), Hamburg, 2-6 September 2019 The call for proposal for ECER 2019 is open until 31 January 2019. We encourage proposals with different theoretical and methodological backgrounds. Proposals are welcome that discuss the conference theme "Education in an Era of Risk - the Role of Educational Research for the Future" …
We congratulate Tobias Ley and his research team and partners on winning the VET Excellence Award for their research project LEARNING LAYERS. Learning Layers investigated informal learning in the workplace and developed technology to support practice-based learning in small and medium-sized enterprises. Since 2016 VETNET has been mandated by the European Commission to organize the nomination …
