Article 2013

Matching vocational training and labour market demands – The opinion of public administrations

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Buligina, Ilze
 SB
Sloka, Biruta
Economic Research-Ekonomska Istrazivanja
Journal · Vol. 26 · pp. 299-310
Abstract

Matching vocational education and training (VET) competencies with actual labour market demands is an increasing challenge for European VET systems. This requires innovation in national VET systems and sets new tasks for public administrations that are responsible for the implementation of the VET sys-tems. The aim of the research is to study the opinion of relevant stakeholders regarding innovation in VET provision. Textual analysis and expert survey among various stakeholders have been carried out. Conclu-sion has been drawn that experts and social partners express increasing awareness regarding the need of VET innovation. This requires continued research, especially on the interests and motivaiton of the in-volved parties. © 2013 Juraj Dobrila University of Pula, Faculty of Economics and Tourism “Dr. Mijo Mirkovic”.

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Author Keywords

VET work-based learning Labour market Public administration

Index Keywords

training Vocational education innovation returns to education labor market labor standard stakeholder demand analysis Europe Public administration
Author Affiliations
Latvijas Universitāte, Riga, Latvia
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