Tag: vocational training

European workers will have to "re-skill" in coming years as technological and organisational changes push up the demand for increased qualifications, even in the most elementary jobs.

The renewed goals of the EU action in the field of vocational education and training (VET) aim to remove the sector's obstacles to mobility to allow a European VET area to be in place by 2010.

Some countries are “courting disaster” by allowing their human capital to stagnate through chronic underinvestment in education and high workforce exclusion, states a new study.

The Leonardo da Vinci programme is contributing actively to the emergence of a genuine European labour market, says Education Commissioner Figel.

In an interview with EurActiv, UNICE's Secretary General, Philippe de Buck, addresses how better education and training systems can help Europe become the most dynamic knowledge-based economy in the world.

While the Commission aims to highlight the shortcomings in the reforms towards making education and training systems more efficient, the Council wants to emphasise the progress made so far in the report they will jointly present to the Spring European Council.

On 11 November, the Commission adopted a Communication highlighting shortcomings in the reform of European training and education systems in the context of the Lisbon strategy.

Eurochambres called for a more business-oriented European training and education system during its annual conference for vocational training and education on 20 May.