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May 7, 2020The Department of Education, Skills and Employment – This is what we heard – Skills Package co-design consultation summaries
As a follow up to last year’s national co-design consultation workshops on the National Skills Commission, Skills Organisations and National Careers Institute, today The Department of Education, Skills and Employment published This is what we heard summaries and online submissions on the department’s website and the National Careers Institute’s e-Hub. The more than 800 people who […]
May 4, 2020
Experts report on impact of coronavirus crisis on lifelong guidance in Europe
Cedefop invited experts from its CareersNet network to provide an initial assessment of how the coronavirus health emergency has affected the delivery of career and lifelong guidance in their country or region. Responses suggest a seismic shift towards online learning and guidance delivery. The situation on guidance support in many countries was described as unstable […]
May 1, 2020
Labour Market Information Portal Update
The Labour Market Information Portal has been updated with a range of new data and research insights, including information relating to the labour market impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic. COVID-19 Information COVID-19 information has been moved from the Special Topics Reports page to a new COVID-19 Information channel, which contains all the latest […]
April 8, 2020
Lifelong guidance policy and practice in the EU: trends, challenges and opportunities
A consortium led by the University of Warwick’s Institute for Employment Research, in partnership with University of Jyväskylä’s Finnish Institute for Educational Research and with support from EY, was commissioned by European Commission DG Employment, Social Affairs and Inclusion to undertake a study on lifelong guidance (LLG) policy and practice in the EU focusing on […]
VET for secondary school students: post-school employment and further training destinations
This research looks at secondary school students who undertook a VET for Secondary School Students program (hereinafter referred to as VfSSS) in 2011 and investigates whether they are in work and/or further studies five years later (2016), and the extent to which their VfSSS studies are linked to these employment and study destinations. The study […]
