Committed and competent teachers and trainers are crucial to ensuring the quality and labour market relevance of learning, both in VET schools/ centres and in companies, and whether in classrooms, in workshops, in labs and simulated learning environments, or at the workplace. Teachers and...

Committed and competent teachers and trainers are crucial to ensuring the quality and labour market relevance of learning, both in VET schools/ centres and in companies, and whether in classrooms, in workshops, in labs and simulated learning environments, or at the workplace. Teachers and...

Validation of non-formal and informal learning is a centrepiece of lifelong learning and has become a priority for national and European vocational education and training (VET) policies in the last decade. Validation of non-formal and informal learning is not only a political challenge but also...

New technologies are irreversibly\y transforming training processes into complex systems. They have a profound impact on the roles of teachers and trainers in the learning process and lead us to reconsider the skills and competences they require. The current report presents the results of the...

Cedefop looks at 19 examples of initiatives set up in the Member States on developing competence requirements for trainers in continuing vocational training and adult learning: a brief overview of the practice, its target group(s), main approach and activities, competences required, a link with...

The guiding principles are a contribution of the European Commission, Cedefop and the thematic working group on professional development of trainers in VET to the objective set in the Bruges communiqué of collecting good practice and developing guiding principles on changing roles, competences...

This report describes the results of a research project entitled 'Professionalisation of VET teachers for the future' (PROFF). The goal was to look at how increasing demands on teachers are being met in EU Member States and to identify cases of good practice. The study found that VET reform has...