Vocational education and training - VET

The consistent and extensive lack of literacy and Essential Skills programming for on-reserve adults prompted the development of a curriculum designed to deliver Essential Skills upgrading using documents and exercises that are particularly meaningful and relevant to Aboriginal adults.
http://www.wem.mb.ca/uploads/AD_Facilitators_Guide_FINAL.pdf

The apprenticeships programme has been providing a good return for public spending. Nevertheless, the Department should set its sights higher in order to get better value from the £0.5 billion and rising now spent on adult apprenticeships each year. It needs to target resources more effectively; confirm the training provided is in addition to what would have been provided without public support; and make sure that the funding system is informed by robust information on the cost of delivery. http://www.nao.org.uk//idoc.ashx?docId=8fcde563-507c-4829-8de6-baf77933efc6&version;=-1

See also Estimating economic benefits from apprenticeships – Technical paper http://www.nao.org.uk//idoc.ashx?docId=76bd2da6-6179-47dc-8e54-f2260a149a02&version;=-1

This article aims to map formal adult education in terms of the determinants of educational upgrading later in life, relating these back to social inequalities from a comparative perspective, and to labour market outcomes following participation, particularly the probability of being employed.
http://www.tlu.ee/stss/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/kilpi.pdf

In Romania, the concept of lifelong learning as such is quite new. Some aspects, like adult continuous education and professional training as well as the apprenticeship at workplace were offered extensive attention, but an integrative vision on lifelong learning was not transposed into legislation and practice, until recently. The paper offers a review of the measures taken for the development of the lifelong learning system in Romania. The most recent, the Law of Education 1/2011 set the premises for the desired lifelong learning system and aligned the Romanian educational system with the European vision on lifelong learning to facilitate the emergence of the knowledge economy. http://www.rcis.ro/images/documente/rcis37_03.pdf