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The main goal of this study is to infer the causal effects of human capital operational programme (HCOP) interventions on the Romanian labor market to provide information about the efficiency of a European investment instrument. Using survey data collected from participants and nonparticipants in EU…

This study presents a comparative analysis of secondary electronics education in the United Kingdom and Greece, focusing on pedagogical approaches, curriculum structure, practical training, and career pathways. The UK offers a well-established and integrated Design and Technology curriculum emphasiz…

RPA (Raising of Participation Age) legislation re-positioned all youth in England to participate in post-16 education and training, the ultimate aim to develop ‘human capital’, i.e. skills, abilities and knowledge (Foucault 2008). However, how does RPA play out in practice with previously NEET and s…

The chapter aims to analyse the apprenticeship system in Italy, which, compared to models in various legal systems, exhibits particularly noteworthy peculiarities. Methodologically, the research employs a benchmarking approach, comparing the Italian model with the typical European framework as defin…

While much of this volume focuses on the legal arguments regarding the right to lifelong learning, this chapter draws on different perspectives to offer an alternative set of challenges for this debate. First, the author revisits a now quite elderly debate from the field of adult education about the…

In the context of structural labour and skills shortages, EU policy packages have been developed both to “upgrade skills of those already within the EU” and to “attract talent from non-EU countries to the EU”. In much of this volume, the focus is related to the former part, namely measures for skill…

For dual apprenticeship systems to be successful, firms must be willing to train apprentices, which in turn depends on the expected costs and benefits of training. In traditional apprenticeship countries, monitoring systems are supposed to ensure sufficiently high training quality and that firms do …

This chapter discusses the situation of higher education with regard to the provision of general and academic skills, and argues that recent developments should be seen as motivation to continuously revisit questions on the transition from higher education to work. After a rapid expansion, the shape…

Despite the rapid diffusion of technological innovations, there has been no convergence of national skill formation systems. This is due to the different influences from the employment system, which begins with vocational training and continues through different forms of lifelong learning within com…

Vocational and apprenticeship training programs are often viewed as a panacea for all economic and social problems plaguing the youth in low- and middle-income countries. Given the increase in the number of experimental evaluations since McKenzie (2017) and Blattman and Ralston (2015), we reassess t…