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Bipartite management of continuous training

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 1999
242 p.

 

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The deep transformations that are taking place in the structure and characteristics of labour markets entail important consequences for training systems, policies and institutions. One of the main ones is the obsolescence of the concept of training seen as a limited stage in people’s lives, occurring in educational centres as a preparation for active life. It must be admitted that training is nowadays a permanent need throughout life, coming about in different environments and situations. Partly due to this, and partly because training has an increasingly greater relative weight among strategic factors making for competitiveness and productivity, and has become an essential component of active employment policies, it is no longer considered to be the exclusive field of specialists. A growing interest to participate in employers’ and workers’ organisations shows that every day training is becoming a space for negotiation and social dialogue, in which only adequate representation of the various interests involved may ensure a proper balance of objectives. A comprehensive look at what is going on in that respect in Latin America and the Caribbean, as well as in Europe, shows a reality at first sight diverse, but for that very reason demonstrative of the efforts being made to adapt the institutionality of training to the new contexts and to the wish for participation that exists in the world of labour and productivity.

 

 

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