The European Training Foundation

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The European Training Foundation

• Muriel Dunbar, Director
• European Training Foundation

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Policy issues

• Need for continuing learning through working
  life
• An integrated concept of quality across
  different sectors of education
• Relevance of skills for the future
• Frameworks - a new policy landscape for the
  future

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ETFs partner countries
EU Member States
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Policy challenges

• Quality assurance across
• General and vocational education
• Vocational and higher education

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Future of VET

• Broad based skills transferable across
  occupations
• Learning to learn
• Social skills team work and communication
• Options for further learning
• Pathways between and within sectors

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Frameworks of common principles

• Transparency of skills and knowledge of
  qualifications and quality assurance
• Learning outcomes that specify what a person is
  expected to know and do at the end of learning
• Mechanisms for recognising learning in different
  contexts
• Accreditation of Prior Learning
• Credit Transfer

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International Frameworks

• Bologna
• European Qualification Framework

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General Quality Assurance Framework of EU

• Planning for Quality Assurance
• Implementation processes
• Evaluation and Assessment
• The review of processes and
• The methodologies used for Quality in
  Qualifications and learning programmes

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Future influences of framework

• Compatibility across borders
• Transparency in an international context
• Policy shaping function
• Learning from each other policy experiences

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Thank you

• For further information on the ETFvisit our
  website www.etf.europa.eu