VET, Transition to Work and the Private Sector in Developing and Transition Countries

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VET, Transition to Work and the Private Sector
in Developing and Transition Countries

• Manfred Wallenborn
• Torino, September 2009

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Overview

• Established 1990 as part of the EUs external
  assistance to countries surrounding the EU
• Set up as part of the EU response to the collapse
  of the economies of Central and Eastern Europe
• Based in Turin, northern Italy

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Traditional geographical mandate
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Todays reality
Predominant public VET sector Private education
and VET for elites or (partly) disadvantaged
groups
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The consequences

• - outdated public training
• VET an obstacle for employability
• decreasing profile for VET
• other or none educational priorities

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Seeds for today, trees for tomorrow

• the globalized economy changes the focus on VET
  (outsourcing)
• from educational approaches and social demand
  towards mental shifts to growth, employability
  and productivity and consequently human capital
  development

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Present scenario

• structural limits of public VET in developing and
  transition countries vs.
• new partnerships and other work based training
  modes due to changing industrial production
  (India)

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Two alternatives

• Private sector contribution to VET and HCD
  remains like it is
• dispersed and isolated from the existing
  education system
• exploiting people rather than training
• low reputation and not well organized
• second best option for disadvantaged groups

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2. Increasing awareness and participation of
enterprises

• non formal initial VET (Ghana)
• formal VET (Norway)
• relevance of training (India)

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Research required

• what experience of best practice do we really
  have in work based learning
• are there emerging functional perceptions of VET
• technological devlopments and world of work
  competencies future requirements
• best practice in social partners VET cooperation

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Perspectives

• Promoting social dialogues about HCD
• Mutual understanding based on shared opinions and
  analysis how private sector copes the mental
  shift and what are the institutional
  consequences
• Economic issues optimizing contributions from
  both sides
• Private/public capacity building for reform
• Ensuring coherence and permeability

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There is really a lot do !!!Lets support
without illusions and prefixed solutions -
ownership based reforms towards VET programmes
with social and economic perspectives !!!
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Further information

• WWW.ETF.EUROPA.EU
• THANKS !!!