Skills Identification in French Region

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Skills Identification in French Region

• Dream or Reality ?

Christine Guégnard, Dublin 26 November 2004
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Skills Identification

• From National Forecast...
• Forecast workplaces in different professions
• Control the training-employment relationship
• Renunciation at the end of 70th
• Contracts of Prospective Study (CEP) in 1988
• Decentralisation transfer to regional
  authorities of education responsibilities

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Skills Identification

• To Regional Needs
• Contracts of Territorial Objectives (1987)
• Regional Training Employment Observatory
• OREF Burgundy Network of 8 institutions
• initial and continuing vocational training,
• local approach,
• integration of trainees,
• qualifications development

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Skills Identification

• Contract of Objectives in Hotel-Restaurant
• Regional Council
• Rectorat Ministry of Education
• Regional Board for Labour Ministry of Labour
• OREF Burgundy
• FAFIH national funds, professional branch in
  hotels-restaurants sector

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Strengths and weakenesses

• Regional Council ?
• Leadership
• Planning, optimising use of financing
• No research department, data on programmes
• Policy of administrative management
• Segmented services, absence of evaluation,
  referred to an opinion of the professional branch

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Strengths and weakenesses

• Rectorat ?
• National policy implementation, Carte scolaire
• Justifying decisions regarding local data
• Research department number of trainees,
  apprentices, demography, schools policy,
  trainees integration (survey IVA)...
• To follow pupils path in education system, in
  the labour market, social demands
• Absence of socio-economical indicators to justify
  opening and closing training sections

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Strengths and weakenesses

• Regional Board of Labour (DRTEFP) ?
• Mediation, accompaniment
• Determining elements of analysing
• Research Department data on employment,
  unemployment, turn-over...
• Guarantor of institutional information (Labour
  Code)
• Absence of educational vocational analysis

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Strengths and weakenesses

• OREF Burgundy ?
• To analyse data on supply and demand sides,
  relationship, elaborating diagnosis to support
  decision making process
• Skill needs identification on chronological and
  comparative analysis, using CEP national, survey
  among 50 firms
• Richness of inter institutional analysis, not
  depending defending only ones institution
  opinion, expertise
• Complexity, reductive analysis, low impact

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Strengths and weakenesses

• FAFIH National ?
• Control of Training (apprenticeship, lycee)
• Justifying national, sectoral choices
• Skill needs identification on CEP national,
  creation of a table on employment training
  relationship (adequation)
• Knowlegde of professions, part of sector
• Absence of data interpreting, forgetting mobility
  and individual behaviour, partly representatives

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Transfer into policy, practice

• First episode Regional Council question
• Regional Council makes an appeal to prepare
  annual training programme
• Vocational Center proposes cook training based on
  local survey among main hotels-restaurants
  revealing lack of cookers
• Regional Council sollicits OREF expertise

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Transfer into policy, practice

• Second episode OREF analysis
• Half of cookers in other sectors, problem is not
• to train too many cookers but to keep them in
  H-R
• National regional data confirm good conditions
• of access to workplaces
• Local data indicate a need for cookers with
  limited unemployment

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Transfer into policy, practice

• Third episode FAFIH analysis
• Data confirm to discourage qualifying programmes
  for cookers
• Regional monography indicates an excess
• Regional data indicate that lycee prepare more
  qualified young people than firms need for cookers

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Transfer into policy, practice

• Fourth episode Conseil regional decision
• To not use the multi analysis by OREF
• To ratify without control FAFIH opinion
• To reinforce the links with FAFIH

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Transfer into policy, practice

• Contracts of Objective
• To confront economic actors, public decision
  makers in training-employment
• Instrument to improve dialog, consensus,
  diagnosis
• Various logics administrative, territorial,
  national and sectoral

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Transfer into policy, practice

• Skill needs identification
• Analysis of quantitative, qualitative data
• Confrontation of various viewpoints
• Development of shared diagnosis
• Influence on strategy of decision makers ?
• Expertise will be the less takes into accpunt the
  stronger is the combination of actors logics