This policy brief (2005) by Sarah Looney and Chris T King provides backround to the movement to develop a standard set of performance measures for publicly funded programmes that comprise the US workforce development system. It also reviews two prominent US proposals: common measures proposed by the Office of Management ... Read More
Category: Disadvantaged groups
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May2009
This 2008 report describes some of the definitional, conceptual and historical foundations of the concept of social inclusion. It summarises the strengths and limitations of Australian and international approaches to the topic so far, and sketches some of the scope of exclusion in terms of locational disadvantage, intergenerational disadvantage, children ... Read More
May 28, 2009Tibor Kovacs
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May2009
Recommendation 195 concerning human resource development - education, training and lifelong learning - has 11 chapters including:
development and implementation of education and training policies
education and pre-employment training
development of competencies
training for decent work and social inclusion
framework for the recognition and certification of skills
training roviders
career guidance and training support
research
international and technical cooperation.
Members ... Read More
May 15, 2009Tibor Kovacs
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Apr2009
School dropout prevention continues to exercise the mind of policy makers in many countries. The European Ministers of Education (2003), for example, established several reform targets for education systems in Europe for the year 2010 including increased participation in the upper end of second level schooling and the reduction of non-completion rates. ... Read More
April 17, 2009Tibor Kovacs
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Apr2009
Given the increasing policy importance being paid to the development of the skills to manage one's career, learning and work pathways in a lifelong learning context(Council of European Ministers of Education, 2008), this Australian publication is very timely to provide guidance on what exactly these skills look like. A joint ... Read More
April 16, 2009Tibor Kovacs
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Feb2009
This is a joint strategy and implementation plan for career guidance services in Northern Ireland of two government ministries/ the Department of Education and the Department for Employment and Learning. Based on extensive consultation exercises on its proposals of 2007, the document outlines a new comprehensive strategy for the delivery ... Read More
February 10, 2009Tibor Kovacs
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Feb2009
This is the German translation of the Council of Education Ministers' Resolution (2008) on better integrating lifelong guidance into lifelong learning strategies.
It defines 4 key axes of action for the reform of guidance services in Member States:
Förderung der Fähigkeit zur Planung der beruflichen Laufbahn in jedem Lebensabschnitt;
Erleichterung des Zugangs aller Bürger ... Read More
February 10, 2009Tibor Kovacs
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Feb2009
This is the Danish translation of the European Council of Education Ministers' Resolution (2008) on better integrating lifelong guidance in strategies for lifelong learning. The Resolution defined four key areas/axes to guide national reforms of policies and systems:
fremme af evnen til selv at orientere sig gennem hele livet
lettelse af adgangen ... Read More
February 10, 2009Tibor Kovacs
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Feb2009
This November 2008 Resolution of the EU Council of Ministers is an instrument to assist Member States to implement reform of career guidance services within their national strategies for lifelong learning. It highlights four areas for reform:
Encouraging the acquisition of career management skills
Facilitating access to guidance services by all sections ... Read More
February 5, 2009Tibor Kovacs
05
Feb2009
Le Conseil des ministres d'éducation de l'Union européenne ont adoptés cette Résolution en novembre 2008 afin de aider les états membres a réformer leur politiques, systémés et pratiques de l'orientation tout au long de la vie et de donner un soutien communtaire au travail de la European Lifelong Guidance Policy Network (ELGPN).
La ... Read More
February 5, 2009Tibor Kovacs