Employment

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Employment Training Corporation
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_______________________Meeting Labour Market
Needs assisting the inactive, those in employment
and employers.Accreditation of Prior Learning
Trade TestingENQA-VET Peer Learning Activity

• By Joseph Cutajar
• Senior Manager - Training Services Division

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Employment Training Corporation

• Topics for Discussion
• From a Corporate (ETC) Perspective
• The importance of prior learning recognition for
  the employers and employees.
• Employers seeking suitably qualified employees
• Employees wanting to pursue further training or
  to find employment
• Connection between the Training Initiatives
  organised by the ETC and recognition of prior
  learning.
• Training initiatives, the demand led approach
• The Trade Testing process

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Employment Training Corporation

• Questions to be answered
• What is the expectation of the employers and the
  employees in connection with the prior leaning
  recognition?
• In which way can ETC measure the expectation?
• How does the vocational training scheme of ETC
  connect with recognition system?
• How does the recognition system connect with the
  nation-wide computerised job seekers database?
• How does the Trade Testing process work?
• Results/experiences of the Trade Testing

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Employment Training Corporation
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_______________________Overview the role of
the ETC and services offered to its clients - the
inactive, those in employment and Employers.
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Employment Training Corporation

• Set up with an Act of Parliament
• The Employment Training Services Act 1990
• Mission Statement
• To provide and ensure an equitable access to
  training programmes and employment services to
  contribute towards the social and economic
  development of the community

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Two main Strategies to provide an Employment and
Training service to persons seeking employment
(the inactive) and those in employment and to
assist employers to find suitably qualified
employees.

• Employment Services include
• Job registration
• Profiling of unemployed
• Vocational guidance
• Job matching with Job vacancies posted by
  employers
• Training Schemes, Programmes and Initiatives
• Employment schemes
• Job Experience Scheme (JES)
• Employment Training Placement Scheme (ETPS)

Recognition of Prior Learning
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In relation to Training the Employment and
Training Corporation

• Has the following functions
• Article 16 (1) In relation to training the
  Corporation shall have the following functions
• (a) to provide training courses or other schemes
  for the purpose of assisting persons desiring to
  fit themselves for gainful occupation, or
  desiring to improve or update the quality of
  their knowledge and skills for the same purpose
• (Article 16) Employment Training Services
  Act 1990

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In relation to Training the Employment and
Training Corporation

• Article 16 (1) continued
• To identify Labour Market needs the ETC may
• (b) obtain information from employers regarding
  the number, educational level, skills and
  aptitudes of persons they may require for
  employment both in the short term and in the long
  term
• Then provide and or organise Training
• (c) to enter into arrangements with the said
  employers, or any other person, for the provision
  of training courses or other schemes contemplated
  by this article.

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Training StrategyOne of the core functions of
the ETC is to provide training opportunities

• To attain its obligations as laid down by the ACT
  
• the ETC provides initial and continued
  vocational training opportunities to assist

Individuals seeking employment Activation of the
unemployed through Labour market integration
Those in employment interested in upgrading
their level of knowledge and skills Prevention
from exclusion
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Employers seeking suitably qualified employees
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To fulfill its obligations the ETC provides
Training programmes schemes and
initiatives

• Training Initiatives
• Apprenticeship and Traineeship Schemes
• Mainstream Programmes Trade, Non Trade and
  IT
• Business and Management Development Programmes
• INT entrepreneurship Scheme
• Night Institute for Further Technical
  Education (NIfTE)
• Other specialised Initiatives
• Grant Schemes
• Trade Testing

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Apprenticeships

• Apprenticeship schemes
• are based on the dual system of vocational
  training
• Comprising
• Practical on-the-job training in industry and
• off the job theoretical tuition at a recognised
  vocational training institution
• Apprenticeships available at craft/ tradesman
  level (MQC levels 3 to 4) and Technician level
  (MQC levels 4 to 6)
• To ensure that training provided to apprentices
  reflects labour market needs - Steering
  Committees are being set up for Callings. This
  guarantees that training provision (acquisition
  of knowledge and skills) is demand led and
  required for a particular occupation

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Traineeships

• Traineeships
• A Dual system of occupational skill development
  training
• Providing a combination of on-the-job and off the
  job training in different occupations
• Demand led Competence-based training programmes
• developed by the ETC in consultation with the
  employer and designed on the needs of
  partivipnats Trainees) and leads to certification
  (some already accredited by foreign
  institutions).
• The programmes build up on what is already Aimed
  for
• new labour market entrants
• unemployed clients and
• employees involved in restructuring exercises.

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Apprenticeships and Traineeships

• To ensure consistency in training delivery
• Monitoring of learning that is taking place in
  the two learning venues
• Regular monitoring visits, basis both on-the job
  and at VET institution
• Log book kept by Apprentice/Trainee
• Certification
• Participants are Trade Tested at the end of the
  programme to ensure that they are knowledgeable
  and competent in the occupation
• Successful Participants are awarded a
• Journeymans Certificate or Certificate of
  Achievement.

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Trade Testing Process

• Trade Testing administered by the Corporation
• Powers of the Corporation to ensure adequate
  training and outcomes - as per Article 17 the ETC
  can
• (c) make recommendations with regard to the
  nature and length of the training for any such
  employment, the further education to be required
  with the training, the persons by and to whom the
  training ought to be given, the standards to be
  attained as a result of the training and the
  methods of ascertaining whether those standards
  have been attained
• (d) make arrangements for the application of
  selection tests and of tests or other methods for
  ascertaining the attainment of any standards
  recommended by it and may award certificates of
  the attainment of those standards

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Trade Testing Process

• Trade Testing
• Ensures that the person is capable of performing
  to required standards
• Carried out by an independent board appointed by
  the Minister responsible for employment
• Made up of representatives from constituted
  bodies to ascertain proficiency in the area
  followed.
• This process is being reviewed and a number of
  changes are anticipated to bring it in line with
  MQC requirements
• Working with employers and constituted bodies,
  Standards will be written and new assessment
  processes will be introduced.
• Job seekers will be assessed to ascertain
  proficiency in the area they are registering.

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Training Programmes

• Clients registering for employment with the ETC -
  are Profiled by the Employment Advisor and
  provided with Vocational guidance
• A large percentage are referred to
• Competence based training programmes that are
  also available for those interested in upgrading
  their skills
• Designed on the Demand led model
• Training that is designed on clients needs (APL)
  and current job requirements - builds up on prior
  learning
• Provides another chance to those who have not
  acquired the level required by the labour market
  (remedial training).
• Labour market led
• Methods that meet client needs and expectations

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Training Programmes

• Classified into 7 different categories.
• Basic Skills/ Remedial training (incl. Literacy)
  - a route to further training and employment
• Basic and Advanced competence based Trade
• Non-Trade (various Office Related and Care)
• Basic and Advanced IT
• Hospitality - Level 1 and 2.
• Business Management Development
• Technical Programmes (Night Institute for Further
  Technical Education) a joint initiative between
  ETC, FOI and Education.
• Outcomes results obtained are sent to
  Employment Advisors to be inputted in the
  nation-wide computerised job seekers database
  (upgrading of Skills base)

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Training Assistance through financial Aid to
employers and individuals

• BPA and Training Aid Framework
• Financial aid in the form of training grants paid
  to employers when they provide training to
  employees (induction and continued training).
• Training Subsidy Scheme
• Training Assistance (Training Grant) paid to self
  employed persons and persons employed in firms
  with less than 10 employees.

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Other Initiatives - EU

• Other Initiatives include
• Europass Mobility
• Coordination, promotion and dissemination
• National Coordination of TTnet (Teacher Trainer
  Network Malta)

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Further information ETC websitewww.etc.gov.mte.m
ail address - training _at_etc.org.mtjoec_at_etc.org.mt

• Thank you