Employment, Training and Lifelong Learning: Comparative Perspectives

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…

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…

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…