ERIC ED423393: Vocational Education and Training--The European Research Field. Background Report. Volume I. First Edition.

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CE 077 140
TITLE
Vocational Education and Training--The European Research
Field. Background Report. Volume I. First Edition.
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European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training,
Thessaloniki (Greece).
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ISBN-92-828-3613-4
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DESCRIPTORS
Apprenticeships; Career Choice; Comparative Analysis; Cost
Effectiveness; Demography; *Education Work Relationship;
Educational Needs; Educational Policy; *Educational
Practices; *Educational Research; *Educational Trends;
Emerging Occupations; Employment Opportunities; Employment
Patterns; Employment Qualifications; Financial Support;
Foreign Countries; Futures (of Society); Industrial
Structure; Information Needs; Job Skills; Labor Market;
Manufacturing Industry; Microeconomics; Policy Formation;
Postsecondary Education; Productivity; Secondary Education;
State of the Art Reviews; Technological Advancement; *Theory
Practice Relationship; Trend Analysis; *Vocational Education
IDENTIFIERS
*Europe; General National Vocational Qualif (England);
Impact Studies; National Vocational Qualifications (England)
ABSTRACT
This document contains 12 papers on vocational education and
training (VET) and related research that were developed for
a 1998 European
research report titled "Training for a Changing Society." The following
papers are included: "Foreword" (Stavros Stavrou, Manfred Tessaring);
"Institutional Framework Conditions and Regulation of Initial Vocational
Training Using Germany, France, and Great Britain
as Examples" (Richard Koch,
Jochen Reuling); "Financing of Vocational Education and Training" (Folkmar
Kath); "Demography, Labour and Training: State of Research and
European
Developments" (Gert Hullen); "Employment Structures and Labour Market
Aspects
Related to VET" (James Tatch, Cliff Pratten, Paul Ryan); "Technical Change,
Work Organisation and Skills: Theoretical Background and Implications for
Education and Training Policies" (Eve Caroli); "New Technologies and Work
Organization--Impact on Vocational Education and Training" (Gisela Dybowski);
"Costs and Benefits of Vocational Training" (Ulrich Van Lith); "Costs and
Benefits of Vocational Education and Training at the Microeconomic Level"
(Winand Kau); "Sector-Specific, Intermediate and High Skills and Their
Impact
on Productivity and Growth in Manufacturing Sectors of the European Union"
(Frank Corvers); "The Future of Work and Skills--Visions, Trends and
Forecasts" (Manfred Tessaring); "Information Needs for Individual Career
Decisions" (Bernd-Joachim Ertelt, Gerhard Seidel); and "Apprenticeship:
Dead-End Sectors and Occupations? Implications of Structural Change and
New
Employment Possibilities for Apprenticeship Training" (Arie Gelderblom).
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CEDEFOP
Vocational education and training
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the European research field
Background report
Volume I
1998
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the European research field
Vocational education and training
Background report
1998
Volume I
on behalf of
CEDEFOP
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
Project coordinator: Manfred Tessaring
under the responsibility of Stavros Stavrou, Deputy Director
CEDEFOP
First edition, Thessaloniki 1998
Published by:
CEDEFOP
European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training
Marinou Antipa 12, GR-57001 Thessaloniki
Postal address:
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Tel.:
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The Centre was established by Regulation (EEC) No 337/75 of the Council of the
European Communities, last amended by Council Regulation (EC) No 251/95 of
6 February 1995 and Council Regulation (EC) No 354/95 of 20 February 1995.
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The background report presents the original contributions to the European research
report 1998 "Training for a changing society", published by CEDEFOP.
The information contained in this publication does not necessarily reflect either the
position or the views of the European Commission or of CEDEFOP.
The contributions are the personal opinions of the authors for which CEDEFOP can
assume no responsibility.
A great deal of additional information on the European Union is available on
the Internet. It can be accessed through the Europa server (http://europa.eu.int).
Cataloguing data can be found at the end of this publication.
Luxembourg: Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 1998
ISBN 92-828-3613-4 (Volume I)
ISBN 92-828-3612-6 (Volume I + Volume II)
©European Communities, 1998
Reproduction is authorised provided the source is acknowledged.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS:
VOLUME I
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LIST OF INSTITUTIONS
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FOREWORD
Richard KOCH, Jochen REULING (BIBB)
Institutional framework conditions and regulation of initial vocational training using Germany,
France and Great Britain as examples
1
Folkmar KATH (BIBB)
33
Financing of Vocational Education and Training
Gert HULLEN (FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULATION RESEARCH)
53
Demography, Labour and Training: State of Research and European Developments
James TATCH, Cliff PRATTEN, Paul RYAN (UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE)
83
Employment Structures and Labour Market Aspects Related to VET
Eve CAROL! (INRA)
Technical Change, Work Organisation and Skills: Theoretical Background and implications
103
for Education and Training Policies
Gisela DYBOWSKI (BIBB)
New Technologies and Work Organization - Impact on Vocational Education and Training
115
Ulrich VAN LITH (RHEIN-RUHR-INSTITUT FOR WIRTSCHAFTSPOLITIK)
Costs and Benefits of Vocational Training
157
Wnand KAU (BIBB)
Costs and Benefits of Vocational Education and Training at the Microeconomic Level
195
Frank CORVERS (ROA)
Sector-specific, Intermediate and High Skills and their Impact on Productivity and Growth
245
in Manufacturing Sectors of the European Union
Manfred TESSARING (CEDEFOP)
The Future of Work and Skills - Visions, Trends and Forecasts
271
Bernd-Joachim ERTELT, Gerhard SEIDEL (DIPF)
319
Information needs for individual career decisions
Arie GELDERBLOM (NEI)
Apprenticeship: dead-end sectors and occupations? Implications of structural change
335
and new employment possibilities forapprenticeship training
VOLUME II
B. CLASQUIN, F. GERARDIN, V. TORESSE (GREE / CNRS / CA)
Research on Transition
1
Dieter MONK, Antonius LIPSMEIER (UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE)
Objectives, realisation and organisation of continuing Vocational education and Training
47
Ides NICAISE, Joost BOLLENS (HIVA)
Training and employment opportunities for disadvantaged persons
121
Pekka KAMARAINEN (CEDEFOP), Jan STREUMER (UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE)
Curriculum Development, New Learning Environments and Transfer of Innovations
in Europe
155
Gerald A. STRAKA, Markus STOCKL (LOS)
New learning formats and venues in the context of information and communication
technologies
183
Jens BJØRNAVOLD (CEDEFOP)
Validation and Recognition of non-formal Learning: The Question of Validity, Reliability and
Legitimacy
215
Uwe LAUTERBACH, Wolfgang MITTER (DIPF)
Theory and Methodology of International Comparisons
235
Soren KRISTENSEN (PIU-Centret/CEPU)
Transnational mobility in the context of vocational education and training in Europe
273
Pascaline DESCY, Manfred TESSARING (CEDEFOP)
Migrants in the European Union: some empirical findings
297
Burkart SELLIN (CEDEFOP)
Recognition of certificates and transparency of skills in the European Union
311
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LIST OF INSTITUTIONS:
BIBB - FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR VOCATIONAL TRAINING
Fehrbelliner Platz 3
D-10707 Berlin
DIPF - GERMAN INSTITUTE FOR INTERNATIONAL EDUCATION RESEARCH
Schloss-Stralle 29
D-60486 Frankfurt am Main
FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR POPULATION RESEARCH
Bundesinstitut far BevOlkerungsforschung
D-65180 Wiesbaden
GREE-CNRS-CA
Université Nancy 2
23 Bouvlevard Albert 1 er
F-54015 Nancy Cédex
HIVA - Hoger Instituut voor de Arbeid
Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
E. Van Evenstraat 2 E
B-3000 Leuven
INRA
65 Boulevard de Brandebourg
F-94205 Ivry Cédex
LOS - Learning Organized and Self-Directed Researchgroup
University of Bremen / FB12
P. O. Box 33 04 40
D-28334 Bremen
NEI - NETHERLANDS ECONOMIC INSTITUTE
K. P. van der Mandelelaan 11
NL-3062 MB Rotterdam
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PIU-Centret- CEPU
Gothersgade 101
DK 1123 Kobenhavn
ROA - RESEARCH CENTRE FOR EDUCATION AND THE LABOUR MARKET
University of Maastricht
P. 0. Box 616
NL-6200 MD Maastricht
RHEIN-RUHR INSTITUT FOR WIRTSCHAFTSPOLITIK
Karlsruher Stra Re 67
D-45478 Mulheirn an der Ruhr
UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE
Department of Applied Economics
Sidgwick Avenue
UK-Cambridge CB3 )DE
UNIVERSITY OF KARLSRUHE (TH)
Abteilungs Berufspadagogik
Postfach 69 80
D-76128 Karlsruhe
UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE
P. 0. Box 217
NL-7500 AE Enschede
FOREWORD
in other fields - is one of
Research in the field of vocational education and training (VET) - as
policies by the various actors at
the fundamental pre-conditions for the adoption of appropriate
functions: firstly, to produce in-
different levels of our societies. Thus, research has two main
situation or to prevent it from
formation and knowledge and secondly, to help to improve a given
research is particularly evi-
deteriorating. The production and service or transfer character of
of VET research could be defined
dent in research on education and training. The central aims
as follows:
updating vocational skills and the
to describe and explain the conditions for acquiring and
structures and processes involved;
other areas of social action - in
to provide information on the interactions between VET and
institutional frame-
particular the labour market. Those interactions concern the legal and
and demographic
work, interdependencies with social, economic, technological, cultural
change and the behaviour of the different actors in these fields;
the decision-making of the various
to demonstrate its relevance to the search for options and
practitioners
protagonists in VET: individuals, policy-makers, the social partners, legislators,
and administrators.
VET research are due to,
The difficulties encountered in gaining an overview of European
different academic disciplines are involved - eco-
among other things, the fact that a number of
technology, industrial re-
nomics, sociology, pedagogics and educational science, psychology,
always perfectly transparent
lations, etc. Furthermore, research done in other countries is not
education and training
due to, among other things, language problems, lack of knowledge about
networks for fostering communica-
systems abroad and the fact that national and international
Last but not least, although
tion on scientific matters are still not fully developed or operational.
solutions, based on theories, approaches and
many of the problems are similar, the proposed
country.
methods, are often rather different even within one discipline and one
Edith Cresson asked CEDEFOP in 1996 to put
They are the main reasons why Commissioner
Vocational Training as the
together an overview of the state of the art of European Research on
CEDEFOP starts the reporting
beginning of a regular reporting system. With this pilot issue,
reports every two years. The re-
system and it is planned to publish comprehensive research
and conceptual approaches and the
ports should provide information on the main theoretical
disciplines. Furthermore, the re-
empirical findings of VET research in different countries and
for researchers on research
conclusions
ports should also make recommendations and reach
decision-makers at various levels to take into ac-
gaps and research done in Europe, and for
both
It is hoped that the reports will improve cooperation
count relevant research findings.
between researchers, policy-makers,
within the research community in different countries and
practitioners and a wider public.
funds available on the one hand and the
As regards this pilot issue, given the limited time and
other, it was impossible to cover all as-
wealth of research material throughout Europe on the
will have to be updated regularly and
pects of European VET research. Therefore, the report
addressed here or which may
supplemented with new topics which have not been sufficiently
emerge in the future.
without the active participation of ex-
The editing of this report would not have been possible
valuable comments and support came
perts in different fields of VET research. Furthermore,
European Commission and the
from a number of CEDEFOP's research partners, from the
them, and of course also to
Management Board. We would like to express our thanks to all of
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