New IJRVET Issue: Non-Formal Education in International Comparison, Learning Outcomes in European Policy-Making, Cooperative VET in Training Networks, Returns to Investment in Education between Graduates and Apprentices in Canada

The International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training is a peer-reviewed Journal for VET-related research and provides full open access to its content on the principle that making research freely available to the public supports a greater global exchange of knowledge. End of 2015 a new issue has been published: Non-Formal Education in International Comparison: …

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Special IJRVET Issue about “Vocational Didactics” published

International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training Table of Content Vocational Didactics: Core Assumptions and Approaches from Denmark, Germany, Norway, Spain and Sweden 15. December 2015 13:26 The design of vocational didactics has to meet special requirements. Six core assumptions are identified: outcome orientation, cultural-historical embedding, horizontal structure, vertical structure, temporal structure, and the …

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Skills Panorama: What skills will it need tomorrow?

"What Sills does Europa´s workforce have today? What skills will it need tomorrow? How different are the labour markets in the EU 28 member states? How are technology, demography and the green economy changing jobs and what we need to learn?" James Calleya (Director of CEDEFOP) The Skills Panorama website is now online. It aims …

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Proposal submission open: International Conference on Competence Theory, Research and Practice

Location: Wageningen University, the Netherlands Time: 19 - 21 October, 2016 Schedule: Proposal submission open: December 1, 2015 Conference registration open: January 1, 2016 Proposal submission closes: March 21, 2016 Decision of proposal acceptation/rejection: May 31, 2016 Early bird registration closes: June 30, 2016 Registration closes: October 1, 2016 Scope: The field of competence studies …

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ECER 2016: Submission time started

The submission time for the ECER 2016 from 22-23 August 2016 (Emerging Researchers´ Conference) and 23-26 August 2016 (Main Conference) in Dublin has started and will end on 15 January 2016. Information about the different formats (Paper Presentation, Round Table, Symposia, Poster, Workshop, Panel Discussion) are available here. Online Submissions und registration: http://www.eera-ecer.de/ecer-2016-dublin/submissions-registration/ VETNET celebrates in Dublin its …

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First Meeting in Brussels

On 29th of october a first meeting took place in Brussels between representatives of VETNET (M. Gessler & M. Mulder) and the acting head (J. Santos) as well as the team leaders (Mantas Sekmokas, Norbert Schoebel, Paul Holdsworth and Carlo Scatoli) of the Directorate General Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion, Unit Vocational Training and Adult …

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IJRVET: UNESCO and CEDEFOP

The International Journal for Research in Vocational Education and Training (IJRVET) is now included in the Database of CEDEFOP European Center for the Development of Vocational Training (here) and today we got also a notification from the United Nations Educational, Sientific and Cultural Organization that IJRVET will be included in the Database of UNESCO, called UNESDOC. Both …

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