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Achievements, needs and challenges of ECVET at
European level
MAS ECVET Ankara - 24 February 2014
Jeff BridgfordDepartment of Education and Professional Studies
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Background
European Credit system for Vocational
Education and Training (ECVET)
Recommendation – June 2009
What is ECVET’s objective?
‘ to facilitate the transfer, recognition and accumulation
of assessed learning outcomes of individuals who are
aiming to achieve a qualification’
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Background
ECVET Recommendation – June 2009
What are learning outcomes?
‘statements of what a learner knows, understands and
is able to do on completion of a learning process and
which are defined in terms of knowledge, skills and
competence’
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Background
ECVET Recommendation – June 2009
What is done with these learning outcomes?
They can be turned into credits
‘set of learning outcomes of an individual which have been
assessed and which can be accumulated towards a
qualification or transferred to other learning programmes or
qualifications’
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Background
ECVET Recommendation – June 2009
Who is responsible for designing and
awarding qualifications and credit
accumulation?
Competent institutions
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Background
ECVET Recommendation – June 2009
Who is responsible for credit transfer?
Competent institutions,
via a Memorandum of Understanding
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Benefits
For Employers
It should be easier to
•recruit trained workers, whether from home or abroad
•understand what workers, know, understand and can do, on the
basis of learning outcomes which are ideally related to real tasks at
work
•know that workers in supply chains have the appropriate skills
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Benefits
For Workers
It should be easier to
•recognise periods of informal learning in the workplace, and thus
shorten the period of further training
•return to education and training on the basis of professional
experience
•apply for jobs at home and abroad on the basis of knowledge,
skills and competence – what workers know, understand and can
do
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Challenges
Quantity of Initiatives
European Credit system for Vocational Education and
Training (ECVET)
European Qualifications Framework (EQF)
European Credit Transfer and Accumulation System
(ECTS)
European Quality Assurance Reference Framework
(EQARF)
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Challenges
Introduction and Application of Terminology
Learning outcomes, Qualifications, Credits,
(Units, Points)
Memorandum of Understanding
(Learning Agreements)
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Challenges
Identification of Competent Institutions
Authorities responsible for Qualifications?
Training providers?
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Challenges
Trust
Updated occupational profiles
Recognition of prior learning
Common training standards
Clear and full documentation, but simple
Quality of work-based training
Quality of assessment
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Challenges
Heterogeneity
Pilot projects have interpreted the Recommendation in
terms of their own needs, and so ECVET
implementation tend to suffer from a lack of consistency
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Next steps
Quality
Implementing the EU Recommendation on
European Quality Assurance Reference Framework for
Vocational Education and Training (2009)
The Framework has 10 Quality Indicators for assessing
Quality in Vocational Education and Training
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Next steps
Strategy I
Member States should create the necessary conditions and
adopt measures, so that it is possible for ECVET to be gradually
applied to VET qualifications (2012)
‘lack of readiness’, but
•designation of national contact points (26 out of 35 - 2012) that
coordinate ECVET implementation and provide information,
guidance and support
•creation of national teams of experts
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Next steps
Strategy II
The European Commission will report by 18 June
2014 on the experience gained and implications for
the future, including, if necessary, a review and
adaptation of the Recommendation (2014)
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