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<<30. Who certifies labour competencies?

Institutional characteristics of certification in Europe

CHARACTERISTICS

GERMANY

FRANCE

SPAIN

ENGLAND

Main characteristics Alternate training company-centre (dual training). Companies are in charge of training. Education and VT are regulated by Ministry of Education. Recognition of prior learning for adults. Several certification programmes in companies. Three subsystems of training:
Initial, within the educational cycle; Occupational, for the unemployed and,
Continuous, for workers. A national framework of levels and areas of competency regulated by the National Authority in charge of educational and labour issues.

Regulating
body Federal Institute for
Vocational
Education and Training (BIBB) Ministry of
Education National
Qualifications
Institute (INCUAL) Qualifications and Curriculum
Authority (QCA)

Standards National,
established by BIBB National references
established by the Ministry of Education Occupational
profiles established and regulated by Royal Decree Established by
Entrepreneurial Chambers

Strengths Labour Practice.
Companies in charge of training. National standards under one only authority.

Highly reliable
regulation because of being public and national. Integrated
education and VT. National references focused
on different clients.
VT integrated to
educational
system. National
comprehensive
and integrating
framework.
Integrated
education and VT.

Weaknesses The dual system’s efficiency is questioned since it is focused on only one practice Employers criticise
the system due to the low applicability
of diplomas because
academic knowledge
is still more important. More coordination
among the initial,
continuous and
occupational
training systems is required. The description of qualifications,
though objective,
was excessive.

Historical
background First standards of industrial training: 1925.
Dual system: 1964. 1st School of Arts and Crafts: 1803.
Creation of CAP: 1919. Technical institutes
established in
1925. First
certificates in the mid 70’s. General
Education Law in the late 90’s. Private initiatives
for training: 1878 (City and Guilds). Competency
standards in the
late 80’s.

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