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Training, labour and knowledge

Montevideo: Cinterfor, 1999
100p. (Technical office papers, 7)

ISBN: 92-9088-087-9

 

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction

I. Training: an occupational, technological and educational issue

1. Training and labour relations

1.1. Training in national agreements
1.2. Training in collective agreements of branches of activity or industry
1.3. New types of State action in the field of vocational training: the role of Labour Ministries

2. Training and innovation, development and transfer of technology processes

3. Training and education throughout life

BOXES

Brazil: CIET/SENAI, a watch-tower of technological change and its impact on vocational training and labour
Colombia: technological development and training
Brazil: SENAC contribution to research and dissemination of knowledge on vocational training
Brazil: the development of higher vocational education

II. New institutional picture of training in the region

1. Coming closer to a typology of organizational arrangements in Latin American and the Caribbean
2. Expanding the boundaries of training: arrangements that favour links with regular technical and technological secondary education
3. Funding of vocational training in Latin America and the Caribbean: just a financial problem?

BOXES

Dominican Republic: profile of a vocational training institution
Costa Rica: quality management in a vocational training institution
Jamaica: research and technical teaching development for upgrading the skills of human resources for training
Peru: institutional transformation of a vocational training body

III. Participation and decentralisation

1. Workers’ organisations and vocational training
2. Employers’ organisations and vocational training
3. Private and non-governmental training offer
4. Local management of training: a space for more actors and opportunities

BOXES

Argentina: union management of training programmes
Brazil: trade unions and vocational training
Chile: corporate management in rural sector training
Mexico: training for micro-, small and medium-sized enterprise
Argentina: local management of technical-vocational training

IV. Conclusions

 

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