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This document summarizes the activities conducted by the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) during 1998 in its continuing efforts to accomplish its primary objective of linking research, policy, and practice in vocational education and training (VET). The following are among the 1998 CEDEFOP projects and activities discussed: activities promoting competencies and lifelong learning (key qualifications and curricular renewal; training in micro-enterprises; identification, validation, and accreditation of nonformal learning); projects monitoring developments in the European Union member states (descriptions of VET systems, statistical indicators of effectiveness, VET funding, innovation in VET, and VET quality); projects serving European mobility and exchanges (transparency of qualifications, needs and problems of mobility in Europe; and VET scenarios and strategies); thematic networks (network on trends, qualifications, and occupations; and training of trainers network); exchange and dialogue (Study Visits Programme, Agora Thessaloniki, partnerships in policy and development, and support for research cooperation); and information collection and dissemination (CEDEFOP publications, library and documentation service, CEDEFOP's Electronic Training Village, translation services, terminology coordination, conference and interpreting services, public relations, and activities of CEDEFOP's Brussels office). Appended are the following: CEDEFOP publications in 1998, information about CEDEFOP's financial and human resources in 1994-1998, and a list of members of CEDEFOP's management board. (MN)
The European Centre for the Development of Vocational Training (CEDEFOP) moved forward on the four major themes of its medium-term priorities in 2000, which were the following: (1) promoting competencies and lifelong learning; (2) facilitating new ways of learning for a changing society; (3) supporting employment and competitiveness; and (4) improving European understanding and transparency. In tackling this spectrum of activities, the CEDEFOP's accomplishment fell in these two areas: developing knowledge and expertise--encompassing the themes and content within the four priority themes; and serving customers, partners, and policymakers, and fostering research cooperation. In the area of developing knowledge and expertise, a reporting system on lifelong learning was developed; final editing work was completed on key qualifications; a conference on the identification, assessment, and recognition of non-formal learning was conducted; efforts to improve transparency of qualifications were made; and a mechanism to promote mobility was created. In the area of serving its audience, work was completed on reporting on developments in vocational education and training in the European Union (EU); key data on vocational training in the EU were reported; the first report on vocational training policy for the EU was published; an electronic library and information service was improved, and additional research and information exchange was conducted. (Four appendixes include a list of CEDEFOP publications for 2000; human resources of CEDEFOP; staff and financial allocations for 2000; and management board members.) (KC)
In 1999, the European Centre for the Development of Vocational Education (CEDEFOP) Work Programme conducted a broad spectrum of activities on the following three themes: monitoring competence and lifelong learning; monitoring developments in the European Union's member states; and serving European mobility and exchanges. In tackling those themes, CEDEFOP conducted work falling under the following three headings: (1) developing knowledge; (2) exchange and dialogue; and (3) keeping people informed. Included among the CEDEFOP projects and activities conducted in 1999 under these headings were the following: preparation of a reference publication on key qualifications and curriculum renewal of vocational education and training (VET); examination of learning in small and medium enterprises; collection of key data on vocational training and on financing VET; establishment of a European forum for exchange of information on serving European mobility; creation of scenarios and strategies for VET in Europe; and continuation of the Study Visits Programme, which gives VET specialists the opportunity to examine specific VET systems and arrangements in other countries. (Appended are the following: list of CEDEFOP publications in 1999; CEDEFOP's staff situation as of December 31, 1999; CEDEFOP's 1999 staff and financial allocations; and list of CEDEFOP's management board members.) (MN)
This book analyses the transformation of European Education Policy from 1973 to 2020. In doing so, it offers a unique insight into the changes of European education from a predominantly national concern to a supranational policy framework, driven by an economic discourse concerning productivity and employability. The book shows that the idea of the “Europe of Knowledge” did not originate in the Lisbon Strategy of 2000, but rather was the result of a gradual development that started in the mid-1980s. This begun with the establishment of a specific problem definition of education as a solution for Europe’s lack of competitiveness, a definition that was incrementally constructed by the European Commission and the European business community. Highlighting significant and unexplored questions such as the role of European transnational business in education and the role of the “problem entrepreneur” in defining policy issues, this book will provide a comprehensive perspective on European Education Policy that will be of interest to all students of European Politics, Education Policy, and Public Policy.