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Quality, relevance and equity. An integrated approach to vocational training

Montevideo: CINTERFOR/ILO, 2006
93 p. (Trazos de la Formación, 28)

ISBN: 92-9088-207-7
US$ 15

Text also available in Spanish

 

Amongst the different forms of education and learning, vocational training is the one wich is most closely linked to the world of work and production. This has led to increasingly consider vocational training and human resources development as a strategic component of both economic policies -as a result of its impact on labour productivity and the competitiveness of firms - and social policies, due to its key role in the measures taken to attain the objectives of Decent Work, increased employability and struggle against exclusion from the labour markets.

The set of expectations placed on vocational training has made it subject to a complex array of challenges and tensions which in turn have stimulated it to make constant efforts to change and adapt its conceptual assumptions and its methodologies, as well as its institutions.

This publication is an attempt to synthesize the objectives, guiding principles and current challenges to vocational training, placing emphasis on the adoption of an approach that simultaneously integrates quality, relevance and equity.

 

CONTENTS

Introduction

CHAPTER I
Vocational training on the road to quality, relevance and equity
1. An integrated approach
2. Quality, relevance and equity in vocational training institutions
3. Quality approaches in vocational training
4. Quality with relevance
5. Quality and equity

CHAPTER II
The integrated approach to vocational training in its labour, technological and educational dimensions
1. Quality, relevance and equity in the labour dimension of vocational training
2. Guiding principles in the technological dimension of vocational training
3. Training as an educational fact and the need for quality, relevance and equity

CHAPTER III
Innovation in the framework of the integrated approach
1. The role of the competencies approach as a nexus between education and work
2. Innovation in learning methodologies: constructing occupational projects and developing competencies for employability and citizenship
3. Innovations in the management of centres
4. Innovations involving ICTs in training

CHAPTER IV
The integrated approach and its correlation with change and innovation in institutions
1. Institutional changes in the last fifteen years
2. The context of institutional changes
3. Elements for a balance in the application of approaches promoted by ministries of labour
4. Adaptation and modernization in vocational training institutions
5. New perspectives in vocational training policies and their institutional framework

By way of a conclusion

Boxes
• Vocational training and quality management: Progress and mutual co-operation
• Vocational training of youth
• Training quality and equity programme (TQEP)
• Social dialogue in vocational training
• Towards quality standards for the educational and vocational training sector
• Competency-based training: A real technical-pedagogical innovation
• Dovetailing and co-ordinating education and labour: Making lifelong learning a reality
• Occupational and institutional project. Some examples

 

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