Traduction de «EFP » (Français → Anglais) :

8. Highlights the importance of reviving and promoting VET and increasing its attractiveness to young people so that it is not perceived as being inferior to other types of education; stresses the need to introduce or to further develop dual VET systems or elements of VET and work-based learning at all levels of education, in order to facilitate the acquisition of knowledge, insight, core employability and job-specific skills and competences; stresses, moreover, the need to ensure quality control and guidance by public institutions over the general content, learning goals, implementation, assessment and certification procedure of VET, in addition to the recognition and equivalence of qualifications; underlines that the exchange of best p ...[+++]ractices related to dual education systems could contribute to structural changes in the labour market and lead to higher levels of youth employment; stresses the advantages of work-based learning, which is of great help to young people at the beginning of their careers as they seek to enter the job market;

– measures to increase the quality and attractiveness of VET including through establishing a national approach for quality assurance for VET (for example in line with the, European Quality Assurance Reference Framework for Vocational Education and Training) and implementing the transparency and recognition tools, for example European Credit system for Vocational Education and Training (ECVET).

– measures to widen access to LLL including through efforts to effectively implement transparency tools (for example the European Qualifications Framework, National Qualifications Framework, European Credit system for Vocational Education and Training, European Quality Assurance in Vocational Education and Training);

58. Emphasises the importance of enhancing VET quality with the aim of striking the right balance between education and labour market demand; considers that the promotion of VET should not be done at the expense of higher education; stresses that the interaction between VET and higher education and the opening of pathways from VET to higher education need to be improved; stresses that more flexible curricula are needed in order to facilitate young people’s access to the labour market and improve adaptation to future labour market developments;

(8) In 2006, the Helsinki Communiqué underlined the need to further develop and implement common European tools specifically aimed at VET, by (.) drawing on the principles underlying a CQAF, as referred to in the May 2004 Council Conclusions on quality assurance in VET, in order to promote a culture of quality improvement and wider participation in the ENQA-VET network.

(a) greater involvement of VET stakeholders and greater visibility for the achievements of European cooperation in VET— greater involvement of VET stakeholders implies greater visibility for the achievements of European cooperation in VET.