Essays about: "Vocational Education and Training VET"

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  1. 1. A New Perspective into Languages for Specific Purposes (LSP) Syllabus Design : Target language learningpromoting thedevelopment of refugee employability competencies

    University essay from Linnéuniversitetet/Institutionen för kulturvetenskaper (KV)

    Author : Maria Alice de Fatima Capocchi Ribeiro; [2021]
    Keywords : Refugee labour integration; language for specific purposes; employability competencies; VET Vocational Education and Training ; syllabus design.;

    Abstract : This thesis reports on a meta-analysis of the most relevant employabilitycompetencies to foster refugees’ labour integration which may be potentiallyleveraged through a target language for specific purposes (LSP)MOOCsyllabus. Italso suggests to group the thus identified employability competencies into threecategories tofurther supportLSPMOOC syllabus design and implementation. READ MORE

  2. 2. Reimagining the purpose of vocational education and training : the perspective of ITI students in the National Capital Region of India

    University essay from Lunds universitet/LUMID International Master programme in applied International Development and Management; Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Sarah Stadler; [2020]
    Keywords : vocational education and training; skill development; capabilities; functionings; agency; freedom; human development; industrial training institutes; India; youth; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Vocational education and training (VET) is generally believed to be a tool for the promotion of youth employability ('VET for work') and economic productivity ('VET for growth'). This rather narrow understanding has been challenged by a growing number of development scholars, who argue that it fails both theoretically (to capture the complex nature of human beings), and practically (to attract a larger number of beneficiaries to VET). READ MORE

  3. 3. A 'welfarist' political economy of skills? : A study of Sweden's vocational education and training system, as an arena för welfare policies, 1946-1991

    University essay from Umeå universitet/Ekonomisk historia

    Author : Alexander Lindqvist; [2016]
    Keywords : Economic History; Vocational Education and Training; Sweden; Varieties of Capitalism; Power Resources Theory;

    Abstract : This study takes its starting point in the problematic relationship between skills and welfare policies. It poses Sweden’s vocational education and training (VET) as a case which has seen the kind of tripartite efforts that might help us better understand the dynamics underlying a highly developed mixture of social citizenship and efficiency. READ MORE

  4. 4. Business Engagement in the Vocational Education and Training System in Georgia

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Tamta Maridashvili; [2015]
    Keywords : Georgia; vocational education and training system; business engagement; Business and Economics; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Youth unemployment in Georgia is severe. In order to bring young people closer to the labour market, the strategy of building vocational education and training (VET) system is actively pursued. However, business engagement in this process is low, impeding the system to provide the skills and knowledge tailored to labour market needs. READ MORE

  5. 5. Benefits of the Vocational Education - Perceptions of the Young Female Students of a Vocational Training Center in Addis Ababa

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Ulla-Kaisa Pihlaja; [2014]
    Keywords : education; youth; developing countries; Ethiopia; vocational education and training VET ; capabilities approach; gender; changing urban space; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : The importance of education in development is generally acknowledged, but in the discussions and practice, this usually includes only basic education. However, during recent years, the growing number of urban unemployed youth in cities of developing countries has raised the question of the role of vocational education and training (VET). READ MORE